Online resources from the Higher Education Academy

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Online resources from the Higher Education Academy

• Mike Clarke
• Librarians' Day Supporting Departments and
  Students Conference
• Loughborough
• June 2006

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Overview

• Brief history of Academy Online Services
• Current services
• Future services

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History

• The learning and teaching portal
• Bringing together people and services in
  learning and teaching
• A set of discrete but connected services aimed at
  all those involved in supporting learning and
  teaching

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Audience

• Staff developers
• Curriculum developers
• Learning Technologist
• Researchers
• Bid writers
• Lecturers

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What Academy Online Services are not!

• A portal
• A repository
• Discipline-specific
• Aimed at students

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The Services

• Organisations
• Comprehensive list of UK organisations with a
  learning and teaching remit
• Searching possible on a variety of parameters
  sector, discipline, policy or pedagogic theme
• Funding Opportunities
• Find funding for projects relating to learning
  and teaching
• Keep up to date with new and past funding

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Sector Resources

• A search of targeted UK websites which support
  learning and teaching

Project Finder

• Lists over 1000 centrally-funded learning and
  teaching projects and other investigations
  focused around both generic and
  discipline-specific themes

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Embedding

• Most services freely available to embed in
  websites and portals e.g. C-SAP
• Tailoring possible on a variety of parameters

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Demonstration

• Academy Online services
• www.connect.ac.uk

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Coming soon

• The Academy guide to institutional practice

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• Thanks for listening
• mike.clarke_at_heacademy.ac.uk