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Upcoming events

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Encouraging innovation

26 Jun 2013 (09:45 - 16:00)
Mercure Holland House Hotel and Spa
Tickets: Free, booking required

Our keynote speaker James Clay, ILT and Learning Resources Manager at Gloucestershire College, will lead us into an inspirational choice of presentations, workshop and activities. Also find out about on a further funding opportunity for the FE & Skills sector. We are also looking for you to get...

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Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences

1 Jul 2013 for 2 days
The British Library
Tickets: Free of charge

Jisc Collections, in partnership with OAPEN Foundation, is holding a two-day international conference to raise awareness of open access, increase understanding of key challenges and identify where international common policies and frameworks could support the adoption of open access monograph...

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Shared services to enhance the student experience

3 Jul 2013 (12:30 - 14:15)
Woburn House Conference Centre
Tickets: Free, booking required

Shared services can deliver efficiencies, value-for-money and a better quality student experience – and yet they raise a number of issues. For example, “What are the benefits and challenges?” or “What skills and processes do we need?” And yes, the big one: “What about VAT?” Join us for a lunch-time...

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Open repositories

8 Jul 2013 for 6 days
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Tickets: $495.00

The aim of the Open Repositories Conference is to bring together the repositories community with stakeholders (such as researchers, librarians, publishers and others) to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues across the entire lifecycle of information. This year’s conference theme is...

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First European MOOCs and libraries conference

12 Jul 2013 (10:00 - 16:00)
Hotel Pullman
Tickets: £65

This one day event hosted by the Open University Library in partnership with OCLC Research and Jisc will focus on the challenges MOOCs pose to the traditional delivery of library services, and the opportunities they offer for libraries to rethink and revitalise their proposition. Participants will...

Past events

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Encouraging innovation webinar

18 Jun 2013 (10:00 - 15:00)

The day will comprise a series of webinars showcasing how Jisc can help support innovation in your organisation. Presentations will include an introduction to using digital media in teaching and learning, new topics and resources from Jisc infoNet, accessibility and how to address digital Literacy...

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Understanding and minimising the costs of data centre based IT services

17 Jun 2013 (10:30 - 16:00)
University of Liverpool

Energy and associated infrasturcture costs of data centres, HPC clusters and server rooms can often be 50% or more of the total operating costs, and a significant proportion of lifetime captial costs. In practice, however, many of these costs are hidden from decision-makers because they fall...

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RSC Northern e-Fest

6 Jun 2013 (09:30 - 15:30)
MPH

Are you delivering, enabling or managing learning within your organisation? Are you always looking for innovative ways of delivering in the classroom and improving the learner experience? Are you ready to be inspired and motivated? Then this event may be for you! You will experience how technology...

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Approaches to strategic change with assessment and feedback

3 Jun 2013 (12:00 - 13:00)

Assessment and feedback lies at the heart of the learning experience. It is an area where levels of both student and staff dissatisfaction with current experiences are high, however change is notoriously difficult to achieve. This webinar looks at the experiences of a number of universities who...

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RSC West Midlands eFair

22 May 2013 for 2 days

This two day online conference, hosted by RSC West Midlands, will focus on improving the learner experience, with the theme of 'learning from each other' and will give you an opportunity to hear how practitioners from around the region are using technology successfully to enhance the learner...