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eLearning around the Northwest

OASES – Assess your Library Accessibility and Inclusion Provision Following an extremely successful pilot initiative last year, JISC TechDis have now launched the OASES which is the Online Accessibility Self Evaluation Service.  http://www.techdis.ac.uk/getoases The difference now is that you don’t have to wait three months for a live session but you can go online straight away, watch the video, read the background, do the survey and [...] links for 2010-03-02 UK Web Archive Here you can see how sites have changed over time, locate information no longer available on the live Web and observe the unfolding history of a spectrum of UK activities represented online. Sites that no longer exist elsewhere are found here and those yet to be archived can be saved for the future [...] 19th Century Classics on Kindle The British Library and Amazon have recently announced a new agreement to make 65,000 of their 19th Century literature titles available free-of-charge through the Amazon Kindle Store.  I see this partnership as a big step towards the Kindle becoming the eReader of choice within the UK.  Have a look at the press release at: http://www.bl.uk/news/2010/pressrelease20100223a.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BritishLibraryPressReleases+%28British+Library+Press+Releases%29 Recently we’ve [...] links for 2010-03-01 Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers | Electronic Frontier Foundation (tags: eBooks copyright privacy drm) Let’s Join The Revolution Presentation For the CoFHE NW AGM we focussed on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. My previous posts contain all the responses from the [...] CoFHE NW AGM: Learner Scenarios 7 For the CoFHE NW AGM we focussed on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. Over the next few blog entries I will focus [...] CoFHE NW AGM: Learner Scenarios 6 For the CoFHE NW AGM we focussed on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. Over the next few blog entries I will focus [...] CoFHE NW AGM: Learner Scenarios 5 For the CoFHE NW AGM we focussed on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. Over the next few blog entries I will [...] CoFHE NW AGM: Learner Scenarios 4 For the CoFHE NW AGM we focussed on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. Over the next few blog entries I will [...] CoFHE NW AGM: Learner Scenarios 3 For the CoFHE NW AGM we focussed on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. Over the next few blog entries I will focus [...]