RSCs – Stimulating and Supporting Innovation in Learning
RSCs – Stimulating and Supporting Innovation in Learning
On 1st August 2010 the JISC Regional Support Centres (RSCs), which guide and support the deployment of technologies for learning providers, became part of JISC Advance. JISC Advance is a not-for-profit company which delivers ICT support services for the Further Education, Skills and Higher Education sector on behalf of funding councils.
The advent of the RSCs into JISC Advance creates a broad and resourceful national service combined with the regional strengths and local relationships of the RSCs.
JISC Advance Director, Guy Lambert says,
“We are pleased to welcome the RSCs, with which we have been working closely over the last year, into JISC Advance. They are a vital element in both helping our customers interpret and make best use of our resource, and as a feedback channel to help our services develop resources that address customers’ priorities.”
Through joining JISC Advance, the resources and advice of the Regional Support Centres are now complemented by a range of specialist services within the same organisation. These are: JISC Digital Media, JISC infoNet, JISC Legal, JISCMail, JISC Netskills, JISC Procureweb and JISC TechDis.
The Regional Support Centres were launched in August 2000 and have been offering support to the post-16 education and training sector for the last ten years during which time there has been significant change in the use of technology.
The increasingly popular FOTiE conference is taking place this year at the University of London's Senate House - also home to RSC London.
RSC London is pleased to be a partner at FOTiE 2010 and we are looking forward to meeting up with many of our contacts on October 1st.
If you can't be there on the day however, why not visit the FOTiE10 blog and join in the debate. The focus is on new technologies and practical examples of how the spirit of the web 2.0 era is impacting teaching and learning today.
Delegates from colleges, training organisations and partner agencies from across London came together for our 2010 end of year event, Thriving in Times of Change, and to focus on how to face the future.
From discussion groups during the day the message was clear:
Learning provider organisations must aim to do more than just survive - they will thrive through adapting and collaborating.
All the case studies tagged below have been produced by the JISC regional support centres (RSCs) on behalf of the Excellence Gateway.
Whether you're a college provider, adult and community learning provider, work-based learning provider or an offender learning provider, these exclusive case studies will help to inspire and inform your ideas.
