jisc rsc eastern vle forum nov 2013 jisc rsc eastern news update

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

VLE Forum

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

City College Norwich, St Andrews House, 15th November 2013

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JiscJisc is now a registered charity and champion

the use ofdigital technologies in UK education and

research


What’s happening in the Region?

»Funding»Forums »Events»News & Resources


Funding

33 Resource and Development Projects across the UK – 130 partnersProject Details - http://bit.ly/17bK8QRResources from the programme are available on Jorum using the search tag ‘FEskills’www.jorum.ac.uk


Further Education and Skills: Development and Resources Programme 2012 –2013

http://bit.ly/17bK8QR

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

Future 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

FE & Skills Innovations Projects funding.


‘Preparing for SID2014 and Beyond event’ 28th November

2013Jisc RSC will be holding an online event to

support providers to prepare for SID2014 and learn more about e-Safety. 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 sitehttp://bit.ly/GYTgxt Scan the QR code


http://www.saferinternetday.org/web/guest/sid-2014

http://bit.ly/GYTgxt

Regional F2F Events & Forums»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


http://bit.ly/rsce-events

National Events F2F & Online

Visit our National UK Site forNational Events:

http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/


http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/

Latest News

In these short videos, RSC Eastern Technical Advisor, Thomas Rochford, examines the latest user interfaces, demonstrating the new Leapmotion and Sandstrom touchpad devices.

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Thomas’s Tech Review

bit.ly/thomastechreview1

Latest NewsRSCs 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

Latest NewsRSCs 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

New Resources

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.

New online maths courses for adult learners


bit.ly/mathscourses

New Resources

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.

Free resources for hairdressing, childcare, and more


www.education-net.org/

New Resources

LAGAT Training & Recruitment have shared their FE & Skills Programme Final Project Report.To achieve their aims they moved away from paper-based 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

Case study – moving to mobile devices in the workplace


www.eeles643.co.uk/RSC/

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

New Resources


130,000 free images, videos and audio resourcesJisc 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

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