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ALT-C 2010: into something rich and strange

g.porter@jisc.ac.uk (Grace Porter) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:45:21 GMT

Making sense of the sea-change

At this year's ALT annual conference JISC will show how technology can improve and enhance teaching, learning and the student experience in a range of areas including; student relationship management, curriculum design and delivery, learner support and assessment.

Where can you find us?

Conference tag: #altc2010

JISC - stand 16

JISC Advance - stand 15

Jorum - stand 17

Join us on our stand

Please join us on our stand to find out more and to pick up the brand new guide 'Effective Assessment in a Digital Age' or attend a session where one of JISC funded projects will presenting their work during ALT-C 2010.

Time	Activity	Location
Tuesday 7 September - See details of JISC programme ssessions
12.30 - 13.40	Launch of Effective Assessment in a Digital Age An opportunity to find out more about technology-enhanced assessment and feedback and to pick up your free copy of JISC's newly launched Effective Assessment in a Digital Age publication.	JISC stand
16.00 - 16.20	Launch of new JISC TechDis website Learn more about the new website which has undergone extensive end user testing to improve accessibility of advice and resources operating in a more intuitive and user-friendly way.	JISC Advance stand
Wednesday 8 September - See details of JISC programme sessions
10.20 - 14.45	Process Review and Curriculum Design Come and talk to JISC infoNet about the wide use of their process review tools and techniques for improving organisational efficiency and enhancing learning and teaching, in particular around the curriculum design process.	JISC Advance stand
13.30 - 14.00	XCRI - eXchanging Course Related Information The XCRI Knowledge Base is an online resource for anyone involved in managing, creating, promoting or using course information in any way. This demo will involve a short introduction to XCRI and a brief tour around the newly created XCRI Knowledge Base.	JISC stand
Thursday 9 September - See details of JISC programme sessions
10.05 - 10.25	Audio Podcast Creation Come and learn from JISC Digital Media how to create Audio Podcasts.	JISC Advance stand

Further information about the conference programme

Strategic Content Alliance Workshop: Intellectual Property Rights

g.porter@jisc.ac.uk (Grace Porter) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:39:48 GMT

Facilitated by Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy

Who should attend?

The workshops are primarily aimed at delegates from universities, archives, museums, health, public service broadcasting, schools and cultural heritage who have a professional involvement in the creation and curation of digital content. No particular technical knowledge is required.

Why are intellectual property rights so important in the creation and curation of digital content?

For public bodies, understanding the implications and roles of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and licensing is essential when delivering digital content, collections and related digital services. This means that at an operational level, it is essential copyright and other IPRs, as well as the permissions required are managed effectively, if these public bodies are to deliver value to their organisations and their users respectively. The Internet provides a unique opportunity to deliver your organisations content, collections and services and yet, as we enter the second decade of the Internet many struggle with issues surrounding copyright and IPR. Fortunately, there is help at hand through the development of a range of tools, case studies and exemplars of “good practice”. These and other tried and tested techniques will be showcased at this event.

Topics covered will include:

The role of IPR and licensing with the context of digital content creation and curation
Introduction to the Alliance's IPR and Licensing Toolkit with group persona/scenario sessions
A watching brief of new developments and topical issues which are informing IPR debate and/or policy, including Orphan works and the Digital Economy Act updates
Case law examples of IPR legislation 'in action' and the role of risk managed approach to content creation and curation

By the end of the workshop, delegates will have:

Gained a better understanding of the role of IPR and licensing with the context of digital content creation and curation
Understood the role of procedures in their organisation for achieving best copyright practice
Discussed the Alliance's IPR and licensing resources and tested them against specific scenarios
Networked with peers and discussed mutual areas of interest

Venue Information

JISC London Office
Brettenham House South
5 Lancaster Place
London WC2E 7EN
Meeting Room 1&2, ground floor

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/contactus/findus/london.aspx

Pre-workshop recommendations

Please do familiarise yourselves as much as possible with the Alliance tools and publications at: http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/publications/

In particular, those concerning IPR would be recommended reading prior to the workshop:
http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ipr-publications/

Financing energy efficiency in university data centres and IT activities

g.hall@jisc.ac.uk (Georgia Hall) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:53:00 GMT

A collaboration of the JISC-financed RECSO and Green in Silico projects

Rising prices, carbon regulation, and sector targets are all making universities and colleges pay greater attention to their IT energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many low-medium payback measures are possible, but are often blocked by a lack of funding or incentives amongst users. Several solutions are now emerging. Energy costs can be devolved to entire departments or for easily metered activities, such as data centres. Alternatively, Estates can still pay energy bills, but share a proportion of any cost increases or falls from an agreed baseline. An energy efficiency fund can also be used to finance energy efficient equipment, covering either the whole cost (as with Salix schemes), or the price premium for high performance models. However, if schemes of this kind are to work effectively it is important to address issues such as:

Raising user awareness of energy consumption and costs (e.g. through more and better use of whole life costing)
The development of new energy-related skills/posts within departments or units
Ensuring that Estates departments support data centre and other IT actions if their own financial incentive to do so has been reduced or removed, and
Achieving accurate and useful information from meters and other sources.

This workshop will explore these topics and provide an opportunity for estates, finance, and IT staff to acquire new information, and share experiences and thinking. It is a joint initiative of two JISC financed projects - Responsible Energy Costs, led by Forum for the Future and the University of Gloucestershire, and Greening Scientific Computing, led by HEEPI’s SusteIT project.

Programme

Time	Activity
12.30 – 13.00	Registration & Refreshments
13.00 – 13.10	Welcome and Overview from JISC Rob Bristow, Programme Manager, Green IT
13.10 – 13.35	Financial Incentives for Energy Efficiency - Options, Issues and Best Practice Examples in HE Professor Peter James, Director, HEEPI S-Lab and SusteIT projects
13.35 – 14.05	Making Financial Incentives Work – An Accountant’s Perspective Martin Bennett, Reader in Financial Management, University of Gloucestershire; and former Chair, European Environmental Management Accounting Network
14.05 – 14.35	Financial Incentives and IT/Data Centre Energy Efficiency –Findings from the RECSO Study David Aeron-Thomas, Head of Metrics, Forum for the Future
14.35 – 14.50	Q & A, Discussion
14.50 – 15.10	Refreshments
15.10 – 16.15	Small group discussion/brainstorming, followed by plenary: can accounting and management systems sometimes be a barrier to improving ICT-related energy efficiency in universities and colleges? are better financial incentives needed to achieve low carbon ICT? if so, which incentives will work best, and in what circumstances? what should those involved (from ICT, estates and finance) do to make this happen?
16.15 (approx)	End

Although the event is free, as we expect the event to be very popular, cancellations after August 31st and no-shows that are not due to illness, will be charged at £100.

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