National and regional contacts. Electronic management of assessment workshop. We warmly invite you attend a consultation workshop on the electronic management of assessment (EMA) project. The term EMA is increasingly being used to describe the way that technology can be used to support the management of the assessment and feedback lifecycle, including the electronic submission of assignments, e-marking and e-feedback. This is the second of two workshops, building on the findings from the first stage of the research, the recently published landscape review that identified a number of challenges facing the sector in relation to EMA, as well as further activity prioritising those challenges. In our first workshop, the stakeholder community collaborated on the generation of a range of solution ideas in response to those challenges.
This second workshop will engage participants in validating and refining those concept areas. These refined ideas will be taken forward to be considered for potential implementation. National and regional customer services. Jisc enables the safe and secure sharing of medical research data. Jisc is enabling researchers across the UK to safely and securely share health data to progress their research with a collaborative initiative.
This initiative is showcasing how the UK’s research and education network Janet, provided by Jisc, can offer additional controls and safeguards for researchers working with sensitive data. Jisc is working in partnership with leading UK universities to support three new initiatives. Rather than each of the research programmes and organisations developing one-off solutions to manage collaborative secure communication and user authentication between partners, Jisc is securing the networks across the organisations so that approved researchers working in one partner organisation can gain access to the data they need wherever it is stored. The first is the development of the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research, a UK-wide virtual organisation with four connection points and ten funding organisations.
Jisc enables the safe and secure sharing of medical research data. Creating your first iTunesU course. Monthly E-Bulletin. We bring to you a summer bumper edition of the Learning, Teaching and Professional Skills e-bulletin from Mimas. There has been numerous things happening at Mimas, with the biggest change is that we are now part of the Jisc family. From 1 August, Mimas, which was part of The University of Manchester, became part of the Digital Resources division, within educational charity Jisc. This move will not affect the day-to-day running of Mimas, or the services it provides as internal operations, office locations, roles and contact information will remain unchanged for now. Going forward the change will see Mimas benefit from sharing back office infrastructure, whilst at the same time providing improved flexibility for growth ensuring the needs of customers continue to be met.
We look forward to continuing to work with you. We have also worked extremely hard on the release of the new Hairdressing Training Mobile app. Jorum Features... Hairdressing Training - The App! FE Skills Window Project. UK research secures new national data centre. Research in the UK has been given a boost this week as specialist data centre provider, Infinity, has secured a five year framework agreement with Janet, the UK’s national research and education network, provided by Jisc. The deal sees the creation of a Jisc data centre to support the requirements for academic research and will be the first shared data centre for medical and academic research in the UK. The funding of approximately £900,000 to make the facility happen has been provided by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). At launch, in September 2014, the Jisc data centre will house the IT of a consortium of six of the UK’s most successful scientific and academic organisations.
Tim Marshall, executive director Jisc technologies and CEO Janet said: “By having the shared data centre users can access off-site data storage and services. Infinity will operate the data centre at its flagship Slough data centre in the UK. Stuart Sutton, Infinity’s CEO, says: Help build the Research and Education Space. The BBC calls on developers, publishers, digital agencies and startups to help students, teachers and researchers get the most out of online educational resources. Working with the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) and Jisc, the BBC is looking to fund the development of software applications which will improve learning and study by facilitating access to a vast range of online resources which have been licensed for educational use. The funding comes through the BBC Connected Studio team and is the latest stage of the Research and Education Space (RES), a three-year programme of activity which aims to bring together an extensive catalogue of publicly held resources which can be used as the basis for educational software, learning resources, classroom teaching aids and research tools.
As RES is a partnership between Jisc, the BUFVC and the BBC, it will cover material relevant to education and research at all levels, from primary schools to post-doctoral research. 400 colleges gain access to free e-textbooks. Jisc offers over 400 colleges free access to a new collection of curriculum focused e-textbooks through e-books for FE. E-books for FE will be benefiting UK further education providers by offering access to additional new suite of 162 e-textbooks. These books will supplement over 200 other e-textbooks previously acquired.
The new collection has been chosen using feedback from customers to ensure the new books are of the highest possible value to their users and focus in supporting the curriculum across a variety of subjects. E-books for FE provides further education colleges in the UK with access to a collection of e-textbooks on a platform that offers functionality suitable for the needs of the community. The new collection will be available to colleges free of charge for another two years from 1 September 2014 until 31 August 2016. Catherine John, FE licensing manager of Jisc Collections, says: E-books for FE does not only save users time and money, but also supports distance learning. Towards a new-look customer service function for Jisc. Putting customers at the heart of what we do: it’s a commitment that many organisations are making, from e-commerce to education. It’s all about seeing things from their perspective, talking customers’ language and striving to meet their needs and concerns, and it’s absolutely crucial to us at Jisc too.
We have been working hard to make customers our priority and to ensure that every single college, university and skills provider in the UK can be confident that they are getting the very best from their digital technology for the benefit of their staff and students. To this end you may know that we have been carrying out an extensive review here at Jisc of how we organise and deliver our customer service operations. While there are many areas of good practice in how we currently do this, it’s clear that we need to provide a better experience for our customers in across the UK.
We want to ensure that we: From early 2015 we aim to have in place: What’s next? Jisc FE and Skills Window Project Survey. 17 Jun 2014 Jisc provides a variety of high quality digital content services to the FE and Skills sector, such as Hairdressing Training which tailors its content to curriculum and qualifications. However, usage of Jisc content relevant to the FE Skills community could be higher. The FE Skills Window project will help to contextualise and deliver Jisc content, making it readily transparent to a user how the content relates to, or can be used to support teaching / learning in specific subject areas or levels.
To be successful, the project requires input from FE staff to collect user requirements. Please assist us with this goal by completing the brief questionnaire before 31st July. Student innovators scoop grants to develop fresh ideas. The 20 winners of this year’s Summer of Student Innovation competition have been announced today. Winning teams will develop digital technologies to improve every aspect of students’ experience, from work-planning and making sure they eat well to improving exam performance and boosting employability. The winning students will each receive an award of £5,000 from Jisc to develop their ideas into tools that can be used by fellow students, colleges and universities. They’ll also attend a series of summer schools to help them develop their project management and entrepreneurial skills and give them an opportunity to learn from experts in digital technology.
Dr John Shemilt, director of ICT, Imperial and Summer of Student Innovation steering group member said: “It is fantastic to see such great ideas put forward this year, building on the success of last year’s competition. The winning ideas will be developed over the summer and presented to universities and colleges later in the year. Still time for the education and research sector to beat powerful malware threats. Jisc and the National Crime Agency (NCA) are today reminding UK computer users that there is still time to protect themselves from the GoZeuS and CryptoLocker malicious software (malware) threats. On Monday 2 June, the NCA announced that an international operation had temporarily weakened the global network of infected computers, providing a two–week opportunity for members of the public to rid themselves of the malware and help prevent future infection.
That two week period ends at Midnight on Tuesday 17 June. Before then, individuals and businesses can take full advantage of the criminal network’s relative weakness by updating security software, running system scans, and checking that computer operating systems are up to date. Those in the education and research sector can find tailored information on the Janet Computer Security and Incident Response Team (CSIRT) blog. Andy Archibald, head of the national cyber crime unit, NCA, said: Cess and identity management. The issue Education providers must provide staff and students with a username and password so they can access online systems or content securely. That can mean providing them with access to multiple systems with differing levels of security.
Simple, secure access has wide-reaching benefits and institutions that manage this well can increase efficiency, save costs and see paybacks across their business. Key terminology We’ve produced an introduction to federated access management terminology and concepts which points out the subtle but important distinctions between similar-sounding terms. Federated access Federated access is where there are mutually agreed, trusted policies for sharing user information, resources and services between identity providers (those who hold information on users) and service providers (those who own the resources).
For more about federated access in the UK educational context visit the Janet Community website. Single sign-on Why invest in single sign-on? Funding opportunity: learning technologies - design for impact. Evaluating digital services. Be part of the change in vocational learning. 22 May 2014 Digital technologies offer us a great opportunity to transform how we engage students and get better results in vocational learning. Understanding when and how they can contribute to the blend is a key part of this. The UfI Charitable Trust is funding a free blended learning programme, open and relevant to everyone who teaches and supports the vocational learning process.
The programme will be in the form of a VOOC, a Vocational Open Online Course, with each module containing a variety of online content from YouTube videos to expert live online sessions. Whether you’re already flipping classrooms or simply bamboozled by your VLE, the VOOC will provide a safe and collaborative environment to discover how to best use technologies on a daily basis. Planned for launch in October, participants will be able to follow learning pathways that best suit their needs.
Here’s your chance to shape what’s in it Deadline for responses is 31st May. Last chance to register for the Summer of Student Innovation 2014. Light bulb moment? Apply by 30 May 2014 for £5k to develop your digital technology idea to improve student life. 17 further and higher education (FE and HE) student teams are already registered for this year’s Summer of Student Innovation, hoping for the chance to create technology solutions that could change the education landscape forever.
The Summer of Student Innovation is a Jisc co-design programme with RLUK; RUGIT; SCONUL; UCISA and ALT. Successful entrants will receive a £5,000 grant from Jisc to develop their education technology ideas, with the aim of improving students’ creative design, research, entrepreneurial and project management skills. To enter, students must submit a two to five minute video pitch on the Jisc Elevator website alongside a short summary and a 300-500 word description which includes details on the benefits of their idea and its impact on research and education.
Jisc and ProQuest enable access to essential digital content. Providing access to almost 25,000 rare and often unique books, Early European Books is a key resource for those with a strong research interest in the period from 1450 – 1700, delivering a wide variety of primary sources from one of the most fascinating and influential periods in Western history and has been developed in collaboration with a range of major European libraries. Very few libraries have access to such a large corpus of works as Early European Books offers and researchers and students will now be able to view this material wherever and whenever they choose. Updated monthly with the most recent edition of the magazine, The Vogue Archive gives researchers of fashion, photography, advertising and history access to the entire publication run of the US edition of Vogue magazine, back to its first issue in 1892. Lorraine Estelle, executive director content and discovery, Jisc and divisional CEO Jisc Collections said:
Janet Web Filtering Service. Janet Web Hosting Service. Find out what the FES-DRP funding winners are up to... 09 May 2014 Name of lead provider - Knowsley Family and Community Education Developing new uses of technology and / or the innovative adaption and rollout of technologies Improving learner language skills through the use of phonetic structures embedded into video-based learning technology.
Some years ago our language learners voiced that they don’t wish to spend long periods of time during lessons on grammatical aspects (reading and writing) of their chosen language. Instead, they wanted to concentrate on the speaking and listening aspects. Although learners are exposed to the spoken language it is not fully sufficient to ensure a good productive command of the language or a good pronunciation.
During curriculum meetings our language tutors determined that until their learners understand the phonemic structure of a language they can only produce an impressionistic transcription depending on their familiarity with general phonetic sound-types. Name of lead provider - Myerscough College. ENABLE conference – book now! Healthcare excellence gets boost from free research journal trial. More universities to benefit from lower cost, high-quality data archiving. Aurora2 dark fibre communications research service to power the future internet.
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