1. RSC Eastern Technical Managers Forum
The Goldsmith Centre, Letchworth

2. Technical Managers Forum
The Goldsmith Centre, Letchworth
10:00 Arrival, registration & refreshments
10:30 Welcome
10:40 Janet Update & a New Eastern network
11:10 Jisc RSC Eastern Update
11:30 Refreshment break
11:45 Round the region discussion
12:30 Lunch
13:15 Lunch & Networking
14:00 Sharing Practice/Benchmarking
15:00 Close

3. Janet Update & a New Eastern network

4. What’s happening in the Region?
»Funding
»Forums
»Events
»News & Resources

5. Funding
Further Education and Skills: Development and Resources
Programme 2012 –2013
33 Resource and Development
Projects across the UK – 130
partners
Project Details http://bit.ly/17bK8QR
Resources from the
programme are available on
Jorum using the search tag
‘FEskills’
www.jorum.ac.uk

6. Funding
FE & Skills Innovations Projects funding.
A call inviting bids totalling £1 million funding was issued.
Bids are related to:
• Enhancing the learner experience
• Improving organisational effectiveness
• Repurposing and updating existing learning resources
• Marking of bids completed.
• Jisc will advise on 14th March on success of bids to submitters.

7. Regional F2F Events & Forums
http://bit.ly/rsce-events
» Jisc RSC Eastern/Microsoft Briefing
19/03/14
» VLE Forum 28/03/14
» Technical Managers Forum 14/05/14
» Jisc RSC Eastern e-Fair 04/07/14
» All of the above are taking bookings.
» Keep an eye on e-bytes and email
list for updates.

8. Safer Internet Day – 11th February
2014
Jisc RSC held an online event to support providers to
prepare for SID2014 and learn more about e-Safety.
Archive here: http://sid.jiscrsc.ac.uk/2014/
Look at the Safer Internet Day website to get logos Link to
the site
Scan the QR code

9. National Events F2F & Online
Visit our National UK Site for
National Events:
http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/

10. Spotlight on Accessibility
 Tech Dis provide a source of information and guidance
 http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/techdis/home
 Epping Forest College: Promoting communication, confidence
and cooperation with VoiceThread.
 http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/case-studies/e/epping-forest-collegee54.aspx
 All Case Studies via RSC UK website.
 http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/case-studies

11. Jisc
Jisc is now a registered charity and champion the use of
digital technologies in UK education and research

12. Latest News
Reshaping of Jisc customer services functions
Jisc are undertaking an organisational review across all Jisc
services including the RScs.
An indication of the reshaped function is:

13. Aims:
Excellence, coherence and consistency across all Jisc customer facing services.
Regional/national delivery of a unified and common portfolio of services through a
rationalised and optimised network based on one ‘Jisc’ in each of the devolved
nations and English regional ’Jisc’s’
Closely and effectively account managed relationships ensuring a single point of
entry to the range of Jisc expertise
Customers get to the person, advice or support they need as quickly as possible,
and within agreed timescales, irrespective of where that help is found across Jisc
Customer facing services are supported and enabled through range of centrally
provided, professional functions to deliver their particular specialisms and the wider
group offer
Individuals and institutions/providers get to the person, advice or support they
need as quickly as possible irrespective of where that help is found across Jisc
The needs and requirements of our customers are championed inside Jisc by
effectively gathering and sharing intelligence from individuals, institutions/providers
and local or national networks

14. Impact Of Our Services
Online Form at
https:// bit.ly/rsceimpact

15. RSCs welcome e-learning case studies
Jisc RSCs now host the e-learning case studies which used to be held on the
Excellence Gateway.
With nearly 300 e-learning case
studies available, providers can
find inspiration for a new
e-learning project, or discover
how to use technology to
improve efficiency.
For example, West Suffolk
College, looks at how iPads,
tablets and Apple TV have
revolutionised learning at the
college.
bit.ly/wsccasestudy

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