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RSC NewsFeed – 24th February 2004
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In this issue:
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1. Changing the Culture with ICT – Secure
Your Place in the Future Now
2.
3. Plagiarism: Prevention, Practice and
Policy Conference
4. Subsidised technical training available
5. Electronic Law Resource - express your
interest!
6. Launch of Scot Exec consultation into
school-college links
7. Digital Repositories and Metadata
8. Theory and Practice of Online Learning
9. Everything that you wanted from JISC
e-resources but were too afraid to ask
10. Get in lane on line
11. The Education Image Gallery
12. Funding Opportunities from the JISC
13. Free '
14. E-map Survey
15. Training & Events
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Changing
the Culture with ICT – Secure Your Place in the Future Now
Bookings are now being taken for this
conference to be held in the Royal Concert Hall,
• Explore
how change in FE and HE has been affected by ICT
• Examine
the benefits of effective information exchange between systems
(interoperability)
• Show
how the JISC’s SWaNI
programme is helping colleges and universities in the
Title: Changing
the Culture with ICT
Target Audience: Principals, Deputes, Senior Managers & Practitioners
Date:
Location: Glasgow
Royal Concert Hall
Cost: FREE
To view the full programme and complete a booking visit:
www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/home.html
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UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions
Service) figures on applications show that the Scottish Agricultural College
(SAC) has the highest percentage increase in applications from people wanting
to study higher education courses at Scottish Higher Education Institutions.
Across the
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Plagiarism:
Prevention, Practice and Policy Conference
The JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service is
holding the first Plagiarism: Prevention, Practice and Policy conference on the
28th, 29th and 30th June at St James' Park,
• The
impact of technology on plagiarism prevention and detection
• Implementing
electronic detection software into academic policies and procedures
• Using
innovative assessment techniques and strategies to prevent and deter plagiarism
• Addressing
cultural diversity when informing students about plagiarism
• Incorporating
the student perspective on plagiarism
• Incorporating
best practice into academic policies and procedures
For further information about the
conference, visit the events section of the Plagiarism Advisory Service website
at www.jiscpas.ac.uk
BUT
FOR A PLAGIARISM EVENT OCCURRING MORE LOCALLY, see
‘Detecting and Deterring Plagiarism: The Web: Hindrance or Help?’ a workshop
hosted by RSC Scotland North & East. Details here:
http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/rscsupport/training.html
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Subsidised
technical training available
Firewall Operation and Administration
RSC
19th March
Only £50
To book:
www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/rscsupport/training.html
Intrusion Detection and Prevention
RSC
9th March
Only £100 (2 day course)
To book:
www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk/events.htm
These courses have been supported by the
Scottish Further Education Funding Council
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Electronic
Law Resource - express your interest!
JISC are looking into adding law resources
to their list of subsidised collections for FE and HE,
and need enough expressions of interest from the sector to strengthen JISC's hand in negotiations with the publishers. So if you
are a lecturer in law or a learning resources manager and you feel that your
institution would consider purchasing the resource, please fill in the
appropriate form at www.jisc.ac.uk/coll_consultationelawstudent.html by 12th
March.
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Launch
of Scot Exec consultation into school-college links
You heard it here first…….Deputy First
Minister, Jim Wallace, will launch the Executive’s consultation into school and
college links on a visit to Edinburgh’s Telford College tomorrow - Weds 25th
February. The initiative will allow pupils to study vocational courses - such
as electronics, plumbing and joinery, horticulture – and encourage them to
consider careers in these areas. Pupils could also study subjects including
psychology or biotechnology that may not be offered in schools. Further details
on the consultation will be available direct from the Scottish Executive
website later in the week: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/
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Digital
Repositories and Metadata
Exploring the Impact on the Role of
Informational Professionals Digital Repositories and Metadata Workshop - a JISC
Exchange for Learning (X4L) workshop to explore the impact of digital
repositories and metadata on the role of Information Professionals
Date:
Location:
Target Audience: Information Professionals from FE and HE
Cost: Free
To Book: Contact
cilips@slainte.org.uk or call Ann Steele at SLIC Central on 01698 458888
Exchange for Learning (X4L)
(http://www.x4l.org) is a £4 million JISC project which forms part of the JISC
Information Environment Development work. 25 projects, involving more than 100
institutions and teams from colleges, universities, libraries, JISC services,
local authorities and commercial companies are involved in projects which aim
to build and share community resources and to populate a national repository
with re- purposable learning materials.
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Theory
and Practice of Online Learning
Just released: Theory and
Practice of Online Learning. The book has
chapters by practitioner/scholars involved in the major systems components of
large scale online program development, delivery and support - as well as a few
theory based chapters. This book in its entirety is freely downloadable from
this location: http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/contents.html
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Everything
that you wanted from JISC e-resources but were too afraid to ask
Are you from FE? JISC needs you to tell
them what electronic resources you would like to buy for your teaching
area/learning resources centre if the price was right! JISC will take your
suggestions and examine each one on its own merits. It will then focus on those
requests where there has been fair interest and explore the possibility of
negotiating a subsidy for the resources so that they are affordable to
colleges. This is your chance to tell us what you would really like. The survey
only takes a couple of minutes to complete and each response is treated as
important. The FE Serials Survey can be found at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/coll_fe_serials_survey.html
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Get
in lane on line
Nicol Stephen, Minister for Transport, has welcomed the launch of a new
website aimed at young drivers. The Get in Lane website
(http://www.getinlane.com/) includes interactive tests, a quiz and competition.
The website provides information and advice for young people on topics such as
learning to drive, ownership issues and costs, personal safety, and the hazards
of driving while tired or under the influence of alcohol or drugs. More
information on this item available from the Scottish Executive website:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/pages/news/2004/02/SEtd178.aspx
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The
Education Image Gallery
The official launch of The Education Image
Gallery took place at the Getty Images Archive in
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Funding
Opportunities from the JISC
The JISC frequently extends funding
opportunities to the educational communities, both further and higher
education. Currently available funding opportunities are listed here, with
deadlines shown:
www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=funding
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Free
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Did you know that FE colleges can get a
free subscription to 'Oxford Scholarship e-books' for a year?
To get your free one year no obligations
trial, simply send an e-mail to trial_access@jisc.ac.uk and specify that you
would like a trial for 'Oxford Scholarship e-books'.
For information about the collection simply
go to: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=coll_oso&src=alpha
At the moment the collection covers
Philosophy, Religion, Economics and Finance, Political Science - and offers
over 700 complete and fully searchable e-books.
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E-Map
Survey
Complete the e-MapScholar
questionnaire before
The e-Map Scholar products provide online
resources for teaching and learning using real-time spatial data from Digimap (http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/). You’re invited to complete the online
questionnaire at:
http://edina.ac.uk/projects/mapscholar/questionnaire.html.
It could be you!
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Training
& Events
A full listing of all the workshops
currently being run by both RSCs in
RSC
www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/rscsupport/training.html
RSC
www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk/events.htm
These courses and others are listed on the Scotfeict website at:
www.scotfeict.ac.uk/events
which also lists other
staff development opportunities for FE staff within
Nationwide training opportunities are
available on the NLN events database at
www.nln.ac.uk/events
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