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			<pubDate>27/07/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>Learning Opportunities Fair</title>
        	<description>Thursday 23 September 2010
 
from
 
10.00am - 4.00pm
 
at the Rookery Manor, near Weston-super-Mare BS24 0JB</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=60</link>
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			<pubDate>26/02/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>Inclusion in e-Learning Forum</title>
        	<description>RSC NE Scotland Inclusion and Learning forum</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=44</link>
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			<pubDate>25/11/2009</pubDate>
        	<title>JISC Digital Media Online Surgery</title>
        	<description><b>WHAT are these sessions about?</b>

JISC Digital Media are providing fortnightly one-hour online help and support sessions to answer any queries you have regarding digital media.</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=30</link>
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			<pubDate>22/04/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>The ICE House Project</title>
        	<description>What is the ICE House?</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=52</link>
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			<pubDate>21/12/2009</pubDate>
        	<title>Accessible e-books</title>
        	<description>A new resource to help visually impaired students has been launched through The Seeing Ear website.  This is a joint project with The University of Edinburgh that allows authorised users and registered students and teachers to a</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=35</link>
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			<pubDate>20/01/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>The changing role of Jorum: sharing using JorumOpen and JorumUK</title>
        	<description>As Open Educational Resources (OER) increasingly become part of the landscape of learning and teaching resources, Jorum has now opened up for the sharing of resources, created under Creative Commons (CC) licences, through its new collection JorumOpen.</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=38</link>
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			<pubDate>20/01/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>JISC TechDis launches new free tool to improve internet accessibility</title>
        	<description>JISC TechDis has launched a new internet browser tool that will make information on the web more accessible for everyone, especially disabled users.</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=40</link>
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			<pubDate>18/03/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>Creating assessment for better learning</title>
        	<description>RSC East Midlands would like to invite you to the National Space Centre in Leicester for 'e-asy assessment'</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=48</link>
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			<pubDate>16/07/2009</pubDate>
        	<title>JISC Digital Media Launches Video Assist</title>
        	<description></description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=6</link>
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			<pubDate>13/08/2010</pubDate>
        	<title> S&B Automotive Academy: Web cam technology streamlines work-based assessment and cuts costs</title>
        	<description>S&B Automotive Academy has developed a seamless and interactive online system for remotely assessing its apprentices on-demand.</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=65</link>
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			<pubDate>13/08/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>Weston College: Development of VLE standards improves quality of course provision</title>
        	<description>Through the development of a set of standards, Weston College has improved the quality of its Moodle virtual learning environment (VLE) course provision.</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=66</link>
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			<pubDate>10/12/2009</pubDate>
        	<title>Exeter College wins prestigious AoC Beacon Award</title>
        	<description>Exeter College is celebrating after being named as an Association of Colleges Beacon Award winner.</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=32</link>
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			<pubDate>10/03/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>Partnership and Place</title>
        	<description>FE colleges are increasingly expected to play a key part in local strategic planning within their localities. Proactive colleges have engaged with and often taken a lead in local strategies for dealing with severe impacts of the recession such as the lack</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=46</link>
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			<pubDate>09/09/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>Public Purse Scoops Half Million Pound Jackpot</title>
        	<description>JISC Regional Support Centres are passionate about learning technology. They help colleges, universities, and other training providers to innovate, to advance, and to realise the benefits that the smart deployment of technology can bring.

</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=69</link>
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			<pubDate>09/04/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>e-asy Assessment</title>
        	<description>17 May 2010 (Full day event)
09.30 Registration, 10.00 - 16.00
National Space Centre, Leicester, Leicestershire
</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=51</link>
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			<pubDate>08/09/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>Ice House Conference</title>
        	<description>On the 5th April 2011, the inaugural ICE (Innovation, Creativity & Enterprise) House Conference will take place at the University of Plymouth.</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=68</link>
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			<pubDate>08/06/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>New areas developed on the RSC South West website</title>
        	<description>The RSC have updated and added new areas to the website, which should be of benefit.  These are Learning and Teaching Resources and Teachers Voice case studies for HE.</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=55</link>
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			<pubDate>08/04/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>leadership and e-learning programmes provided by LSIS</title>
        	<description>Contributing towards your CPD, these programmes  focus on areas that bring about the greatest organisational improvement.  
</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=50</link>
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			<pubDate>07/04/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>Network Promoting E-learning for Rural Development</title>
        	<description>A new project, part-funded by the European Commission, needs some help in looking at the issues surrounding e-learning availability to address the training needs of small businesses, the self-employed and the unemployed, particularly in rural areas.</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=49</link>
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			<pubDate>03/08/2010</pubDate>
        	<title> ERA Plus - The Benefits Explained</title>
        	<description>How to implement online services based on the ERA Plus Licence

Thursday 9 September 2010, 10.30am - 3.30pm
FREE EVENT!</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=63</link>
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			<pubDate>03/08/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>Regional Support Centres become part of JISC Advance</title>
        	<description>On 1st August 2010 JISC Regional Support Centres (RSCs), which guide and support the deployment of technologies for learning providers, became part of JISC Advance.</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=64</link>
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			<pubDate>02/09/2010</pubDate>
        	<title>New LSIS Funding 50,000 available</title>
        	<description>LSIS is pleased to announce the opening of the fourth round of funding for Flexibility and Innovation Fund projects. The fourth funding round opens on Wednesday 1 September 2010 and closes on Friday 29 October 2010.</description>
        	<link>http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/index.php?p=13_1&amp;id=67</link>
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