JISC/RSCJISC/RSC South EastSouth East updateupdate

New faces, New faces, new resourcesnew resources

To coverA) Expanding RSC team– Wider remit but more focused support

B) Review e-resource provision– Free JISC/ funded resources as a push for

access management?– Opportunity to revisit existing resources?– Strategic implementation

The RSC South East teamThe RSC South East team

as of Nov 07as of Nov 07

The RSC South East teamThe RSC South East team

By Jan 08By Jan 08

e-learn

ing adviser

vacancy

We work withWe work with

Library staff Senior Managers

Network Managers

Staff developmentCurriculum heads

Additional support / SLDD

Principals

We support….We support….

Further Education VI Form

HEIs Specialist Colleges

Adult & Community Learning

Work-based learning

New & existing resourcesNew & existing resources

JISC Collections

JISC eBooks

NLN materials relaunch

JORUM

Recent highlights

• Rock’s Back pages

• Film and Sound online … free

• Hairdressing Training …. free

• JISC / BL Digitisation project …. free

The national e-books observatory projectwill examine usage, assess impacts,observe student behaviour and develop newmodels to stimulate the e-books market.

• Business, engineering, medicine, media• HE funded – or HE funded delivery in FE• Project website

http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/

An old favourite

• Hopefully bigger and better

• Easier access – less red tape

• More choice of personalisation

• Web based or download

• Org. and individual registration

• To register - http://www.nln.ac.uk

Free repository of learning objects

• HE / FE

• Athens authenticated

• Contributor / user aspects

• Curriculum / research content

• Librarian / support content

• http://www.jorum.ac.uk

(e)Collections strategy(e)Collections strategy

With effective access management comes opportunity to ‘try again’

• Audit resources across college• Rationalise, make use of what you have• Utilise free, JISC resources• Embed in VLE• Provide guidance on their application• Consider information literacy

Andy Kirk,Andy Kirk,e-Learning Adviser e-Learning Adviser JISC RSC South EastJISC RSC South East

http://www.rsc-southeast.ac.uk

This presentation can be downloaded at

http://www.slideshare.net/rsc_southeast