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Running Effective Campaigns, RSC West Midlands

26 March 2013

Online

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Using the psychology of change to design messages and stimulate change. This free webinar, run in partnership with LSIS, considers how to create and deliver campaigns in organisations to encourage changes in beliefs, behaviour, culture and organisational systems.

The Assessment Summit: Plotting the Course, RSC Scotland

27 March 2013

College Development Network, Argyll Court, Stirling

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Considering assessment in a strategic way, in terms of the whole institution, can enhance the learner journey. Streamlining data flow and processes enables efficiencies and embedding effective assessment practices within the curriculum can help to equip students with the skills they need to become more self-directing and in control of their own development.

Project Management for the Education Sector, Jisc Netskills and Jisc infoNet

27 March 2013

King's House Conference Centre, Manchester

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This workshop introduces a project management methodology that can be adapted for any size of project and is specifically tailored to the needs of the education sector. The day is interactive, providing a structured approach to project management and investigating a number of examples.

Writing for the Web

26 March 2013

Euston House, London

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The ability to write and re-purpose content for the web is an important skill. Visitors can abandon your site at the click of a button if they are not enticed by what you have written. This workshop will explore effective web writing styles, get you started with audience analysis and introduce simple search engine optimisation techniques.

Better Blogging, Jisc Netskills

27 March 2013

Jisc Meeting Rooms, Brettenham House, London

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This workshop will give you expert guidance on the art of blogging to help you get the most out of the effort you put in. You'll get a chance to write some new posts from scratch and give and receive feedback from the other attendees.

Janet Networkshop 41

09 – 11 April 2013

Chancellor's Building, Keele University, Keele

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Janet’s annual technical conference for staff in research and education. The programme will address key challenges for the sector including integrating unified communications and network management tools; Janet Telephony; Bring Your Own Device and e-infrastructure.

Organisational Improvement Workshop, Jisc infoNet

16 April 2013

The Goldsmith Centre, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire

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In this one-day workshop delegates will work through many of the tools and the specific example used throughout the day – recording Learner/Student progress – will lead to many immediate benefits and potential improvements that delegates can take away with them.

Learner Centred Process Review, RSC London

17 April 2013

Senate House, University of London

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Incremental changes over the years may have left processes no longer matching the needs of modern learners. This workshop will look at how to put learners’ needs at the heart of organisational process review by focusing on the benefits to learners of each and every activity undertaken by the institution.

Getting Started with Augmented Reality, RSC West Midlands

17 April 2013

Lancaster University

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Augmented Reality (AR) is the capability to superimpose computer/virtual based information over the real world. As multifunction devices, e.g. smart phones and tablet computers become commonplace in teaching, AR has the potential to be used for visual and highly interactive forms of learning.

An Introduction to Instructional Design for e-Learning, Jisc Netskills

18 April 2013

Online

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This workshop teaches you the processes behind effective instructional design, from planning, developing and delivering. It will help you get to grips with the methodologies behind effective instructional design, demonstrating how to use specific and appropriate development tools.

If you are interested in learning more about the event please contact Isabel Brough.

Learning on Screen Awards 2013, BUFVC

18 April 2013

BFI Southbank, London

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The Learning on Screen Awards celebrate and reward excellence in the use of moving image and related media in learning, teaching and research.

Digital Literacy in Practice, RSC East Midlands

18 April 2013

The Studio, Birmingham

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This face-to-face event is an opportunity to explore practical ways to develop Digital Literacy in your learners and staff. During the event, we will be hearing from the two major FE Digital Literacy Projects funded by Jisc (WORDLE and PADDLE), as well as an update on Digital Literacy across all sectors.

Finding free and open resources for teaching: Jorum and the OER landscape, RSC Wales

23 April 2013

Online

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With an eye to the broader OER community, and the many great sources of OER out there, this webinar will contextualise Jorum's place in the OER landscape.

Open Badges Design Day, RSC Scotland

25 April 2013

citizenM, Glasgow

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Doug Belshaw from the Mozilla Foundation will lead this collaborative workshop, covering the basics of Open Badge design in any learning context. Participants will be given a chance to think through the behaviours, skills, and attributes that they may like to recognise or credential – and then consider various badge-based pathways to learning.

Librarians’ forum, RSC South East

26 April 2013

Southampton Solent University

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The Librarians' Forum Meeting is the premier gathering of FE and HE LRC managers in the South East. The meeting will examine library space design, looking at re-purposing of existing spaces as well as wider principles of space design which are pedagogically sound.

Designing location aware learning activities: QR Codes and Augmented Reality

08 May 2013

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

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Learn how to employ location aware based technologies, including QR Codes and Aurasma’s Image Recognition software, to develop interactive, location aware learning activities. Collaboratively develop a number of examples and identify how to use them within teaching and learning.

Managing Digital Media Collections, Jisc Digital Media

06 June 2013

University of Bristol

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This one day course will offer a model of digital collection management, based upon open source solutions. Attendees will gain hands-on experience of planning, building, managing and delivering a digital media collection.

Bring Me That Horizon!, RSC Scotland

07 June 2013

The John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh

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Cutbacks, changes and mergers. It’s been an unsettling time for many in Scottish tertiary education. Have you been drowning in a sea of information? Have cutbacks and uncertainty been rocking your boat? Why not join the Jisc RSC Scotland flotilla for a day of discovery as we peer through the clouds and focus on the future.

Open Access Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences

01 – 02 Jul 2013

The British Library, London

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Jisc Collections, in partnership with the 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 publishing in the humanities and social sciences (HSS).