Regional Support Centres become part of JISC Advance

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.

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.

JISC Legal Announcement

JISC Legal is pleased to announce the release of its guidance on the Digital Economy Act 2010. This guidance examines the Act in detail and explores its implications for colleges and universities.

The guidance can be found on the JISC Legal website.  Additionally, Kirsty McLaughlin, the guidance’s author, recorded a podcast about the DEA with JISC. The podcast can be found online.

JISC Digital Media Announcement

JISC Digital Media in conjunction with the Virtual Training Suite (VTS) have launched two new online tutorials:

• Internet for Audio Resource
• Internet for Video and Moving Images

The free to use tutorials have been designed to assist staff and students within the education sector to locate audio and video for use in both teaching and learning.

Created as part of the Virtual Training Suite  the tutorials have been funded by JISC Advance.  Dave Kilbey, Training Coordinator at JISC Digital Media said, "the emphasis of the tutorials is on finding copyright cleared resources, which are available free of charge; facilitating users with quick, hassle-free access to a vast range of online audio and video resources."

These two new tutorials follow the launch 22 months ago of the very successful Internet for Image Searching tutorial.