The SharePoint in Education event at Kingston College (24th November 2009) was a response to the growing demand for information and support from those developing systems using SharePoint.

Over fifty delegates from across the London and South East regions made the journey to Kingston College in November

The morning saw presentations on the SharePoint based developments at City and Islington College, Esher College and Kingston College. The common theme of all three developments was they integrated data from a number of different sources and made that information available to the user in a personalised context. However the approach and scope of these developments varied considerably. 
The event report and presentations are now available on the RSCLondon website…

RSC London, in collaboration with its neighbours RSC Eastern and RSC South East, presented a successful and well attended Work Based Learning national event. Throughout the day a variety of speakers gave firsthand accounts and demonstrations of just some of the facilities and tools available to the audience.

The event opened with a presentation from Victor Farlie, Chair of the London Work Based Learning Alliance, who gave an informative insight to strategy and delivery. Details of the full days event is available on the RSC London web site.

Targeting the Work Based Learning sector, this conference will set out to raise awareness and opportunities which today’s technology presents. It will showcase example of good practice while utilising Information Learning Technologies and promoting discussion on the challenges WBL providers currently face as they incorporate technology into their organisations. More…

e-Portfolio 2009 poster

Learning Forum London
City University

22-24 June 2009

This year’s event main theme is ‘Innovation, Creativity and Accountability’. It will be addressed over three days and three conferences:

• ePortfolio 2009(7th international conference)
• Key Competencies-Skills for Life 2009(3rd international conference)
• Learning Networks and Communities(4th international conference-previously Learning Regions & Cities)

For further details visit www.epforum.eu

A few discounted places are available – contact

gemma.hammond@niace.org.uk

explaining why the conference would be of benefit to your work and giving brief details of your involvement in e-learning – by Monday 8th June.

Originally planned to take place on what turned out to be the snowiest day in London for nearly twenty years, this event was rescheduled and finally went ahead in April, not far from where the G20 summit was in full swing.

Unperturbed by these portents, presenters and delegates enjoyed a productive day.  A report and more photographs from this event are now available on the RSC London website’s Recent Event page.

Following the first of the JISC RSC Smarter, Greener Learning Conferences held at London’s City Hall on 26th February, a full event report with PowerPoints from each presentation, together with streamed video of the key speakers, is now available.

This event set out to bring the latest strategic thinking and practical advice on Green IT to the post-16 education sector.  Our speakers succeeded in covering this agenda with the breadth, relevance and practicality learning providers need in order to start to develop cost effective and sustainable practices.

Full event report and resources

Want to know how learners experience and participate in learning in technology-rich environments ?

Want to know how best to support learners, based on the understanding of their diverse needs, experiences and preferences of learners?

Want to know more about the JISC Learner Experience Phase 2 projects’ outcomes?

Then worth booking on  this FREE event on 20^th January at Goodenough College at

http://www.rsc-london.ac.uk/1292/

This event is suitable for:

• expert practitioners (lecturers, tutors from post-16 institutions) who are integrating technology into their teaching and course design.
• intermediaries with a role in supporting practitioners with e-learning practice (learning technologists, e-learning champions, staff developers).

A detailed event report covering the main presentations and discussions at the recent AoC London/RSC London seminar for London’s FE leaders, is available here:

http://www.rsc-london.ac.uk/1278/

Leaders of London’s FE sector escaped their desks to spend a morning with colleagues scanning the educational horizon at the ‘Future of Education’ event held at the British Library last month.

Professor Stephen Heppell managed to both inspire and communicate a degree of threat…at least for those who fail to react and risk drifting further away from a relevant curriculum and pedagogy with his keynote presentation.

Many speakers felt like David Collins, President of the AoC, that the further education system is well placed to be able to adapt to a fast changing, demand-led environment as he advised: ‘don’t panic!’

John Stone, CEO of the LSN, summarised the four lively workshop sessions, adding his observation that currently the funding model works for classes that ‘spend lots of time together’ and the need for a business model that helps support Colleges make change.

“This event should have been made compulsory for all London principals!” concluded Sue Rimmer, Chair of AoC London Region.

Delegates at Future Education Event