RSC Eastern update

1. RSC Eastern update
Malcolm Bodley & Ryan Bradshaw Jisc Regional Support Centre

2. RSC Eastern Update September 2013
VLE Forum
City College Norwich, St Andrews House, 15th
November 2013
10:00Arrival, registration & refreshments
10:15 Welcome, Introduction – Chris Boon, (Chair) Malcolm Bodley, Ryan
Bradshaw news update
10:45 ‘Around the region’
11:45 Refreshment break
12.00 Charlie Williams Conditional Activities and Badges in Moodle
12:30 Lunch
13:15 Roy Currie, Moodle Grade Tracker: project outcomes
13:45 Chris Boon Blackboard for course administration
14:15 Jaki Houston Making Courses more engaging
14:45 AOB
15:00 Close
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3. RSC Eastern Update September 2013
Jisc
Jisc is now a registered charity and champion the use of
digital technologies in UK education and research
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4. RSC Eastern Update September 2013
What’s happening in the Region?
»Funding
»Forums
»Events
»News & Resources
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5. RSC Eastern Update September 2013
Funding
Further Education and Skills: Development and Resources
Programme 2012 –2013
33 Resource and Development
Projects across the UK – 130
partners
Project Details http://bit.ly/17bK8QR
Resources from the
programme are available on
Jorum using the search tag
‘FEskills’
www.jorum.ac.uk
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6. RSC Eastern Update September 2013
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Future Funding
FE & Skills Innovations Projects funding.
A call inviting bids totalling £1 million funding is due in the near
future.
Bids will be related to:
• Enhancing the learner experience
• Improving organisational effectiveness
• Repurposing and updating existing learning resources
• Regional bid writing event organised by RSC Eastern 7/11/13

7. RSC Eastern Update September 2013
‘Preparing for SID2014 and Beyond event’
28th November 2013
Jisc RSC will be holding an online event to support
providers to prepare for SID2014 and learn more about eSafety. Add this date to your diary!
We will have information on our website after the summer.
Look at the Safer Internet Day website to get logos Link to
the site
http://bit.ly/GYTgxt
Scan the QR code
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8. RSC Eastern Update September 2013
Regional F2F Events & Forums
http://bit.ly/rsce-events
»VLE Forum 15/11/13 Norwich
»Learning Resources Managers
Forum 22/11/13
»Technology for Inspection 04/12/13
»Assessing Impact for your Services
(Part 2) 10/12/13
»Technical Managers Forum
05/02/14
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9. RSC Eastern Update September 2013
National Events F2F & Online
Visit our National UK Site for
National Events:
http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/
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Latest News
Thomas’s Tech Review
In these short videos,
RSC Eastern Technical
Advisor, Thomas
Rochford, examines the
latest user
interfaces, demonstrati
ng the new Leapmotion
and Sandstrom
touchpad devices.
bit.ly/thomastechreview1

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Latest News
RSCs welcome e-learning case studies
Jisc RSCs now host the e-learning
case studies which used to be
held on the Excellence Gateway.
With nearly 300 e-learning case
studies available, providers can
find inspiration for a new
e-learning project, or discover
how to use technology to
improve efficiency.
The latest case study, from West
Suffolk College, looks at how
iPads, tablets and Apple TV have
revolutionised learning at the
college.
bit.ly/wsccasestudy

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Latest News
RSCs customer satisfaction survey
Jisc conducts a regular
Customer Satisfaction
Survey (CSS) across all 12
Regional Support Centres.
98% of those who
responded had made use
of RSC support and
communications over the
previous 12 months, and
91 per cent said they were
satisfied or very satisfied
with the support they
received.
bit.ly/jiscimpact

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New Resources
New online maths courses for adult learners
Three online maths
courses, using videos,
games and quizzes, have
been developed to help
adults improve their
everyday maths skills,
manage their money and
support their children.
bit.ly/mathscourses

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New Resources
Free resources for hairdressing, childcare, and more
An online resource to
support e-learning for
vocational, education and
training. Freely available
resources for the use of all
learners, apprentices,
employers and teachers.
Travel and tourism, retail,
sports therapy, hospitality,
beauty, customer service.
www.education-net.org/

15. RSC Eastern Update October 2013
New Resources
Case study – moving to mobile devices in the workplace
LAGAT Training & Recruitment have shared their FE &
Skills Programme Final Project Report.
To achieve their aims they moved away from paperbased resources to:
• Develop a Virtual Learning Library (VLL) of
resources specific to the occupational areas in which we
deliver
• Implement and use Tablets to improve efficiency in
staff delivery
• Develop an electronic web based induction program
www.eeles643.co.uk/RSC/
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New Resources
Updated Jorum website
Looking for free teaching
and learning resources?
Refine or filter your search
like you would on a
shopping site. You can filter
for:
• Everything for a
particular community
(e.g. HE or FE);
• Discipline
• By author, publisher;
• By what you are allowed
to do with the resource
(i.e. by licence).
www.jorum.ac.uk

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New Resources
130,000 free images, videos and audio resources
Jisc is now offering further
education (FE) providers’
free subscription to Jisc
MediaHub. It enables direct
access to over 130,000
images, films and audio
files, licensed for
educational use.
bit.ly/mediahubfree

18. RSC Eastern Update October 2013
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