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CELDA 2013 - 2nd call extension

13 Mei 2013
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Open Online Fashion Design: Zandra Rhodes Collection

04 April 2013

Famous designs created by renowned designer Zandra Rhodes, and worn by global icons such as Princess Diana, Jackie Onassis and Elizabeth Taylor, are just some of the 500 dresses and garments that have been painstakingly prepared, catalogued and photographed over the past 18 months and included in the Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection.

 

Known for her bright pink hair and cutting-edge designs, Zandra Rhodes has remained one of the most recognisable names in fashion over the last five decades and remains relevant with the likes of Kylie Minogue, Sarah Jessica Parker and Paris Hilton wearing her dresses today.

 

Actress Joanna Lumley kickstarted the initiative, working with the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) to launch this Jisc-funded digital archive. That has implied locating, preparing, photographing, researching, and cataloguing 50 years of fashion collections in order to successfully compose the Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection. 

 

“I am absolutely thrilled to unveil this high quality digital archive of 500 of my most famous designs, as well as drawings and behind-the-scenes footage in my studio, for access by today's fashion and textile students, designers, and researchers, and I hope that it will be an inspiration worldwide," says Zandra. 
 
Researchers and students at UCA have worked with Zandra Rhodes and her studio to also create contextual learning materials which explore her creative processes and production techniques, through video interviews, tutorials, and exquisite original drawings.
 
 
Open Source, e-resources, educational materials, higher education resources
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1st International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education

11 Maart 2013

The 1st International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) will take place in Porto on October 31st and November 1st, under the theme "Education in Engineering: Challenges for Innovation". Technically sponsored by the IEEE, IGIP, SEFI, ASCE, ABENGE, and the Portuguese Engineers Association, this event will be a key opportunity to gather - in Portugal - a number of national and international experts in the area of engineering education, under the topics of the present working groups of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education, namely Engineering Ethics; ICT in Engineering Education; Continuing Engineering Education; Tools to Develop Higher Order Thinking Skills; and Mathematics in Engineering Education.

computer-based educational tools, design of educational facilities, higher education resources, Education, higher education
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Fashion Photography Open CourseBook

04 Maart 2013

This Open CourseBook offers an introduction to Fashion Photography. It introduces students to understanding the role of Fashion Photography and aims to give them the knowledge of how Fashion images are created. 

 

Students are invited to analyse the mood, atmosphere and statement fashion images communicate, through evaluation of the image and attitude of the model, the art direction, and the technical execution of the final image through the use of digital photography, editing and cropping images.

This research and analysis will enable and encourage students to organize and produce a Fashion shoot through research, scouting locations, casting models, styling (clothes, hair and make up), demonstrating their understanding of producing an editorial fashion shoot appropriate to the given market.

 
computer-based educational tools, e-resources, educational materials, higher education resources, online resources
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Discovery Summit 2013

15 Februari 2013

 

Last 15 places now available - register online and join the first international discovery summit, in London on 21-22 February.  Jisc and the British Library are calling university librarians and archivists, library staff, museum curators and expert developers from across the globe to ask ‘how is open data transforming the world’s great collections at universities, galleries, libraries, archives and museums from being on the internet, to being of the internet?’
 
 

 

The aim is that by the end of the summit there will be an international action plan which will bring together collaborative next steps on the road to discovery. This two day summit is also open for online attendance so get the date in your diary now. There is no need for registration, simply visit the Jisc website to join in on the day.
 
Discovery of resources for research and education is an area of almost continual upheaval and this presents many challenges.  Jisc and the British Library want to find out how open data can be used to make library, archive and museum collections easier for the public to find and use.
 
Effective resource discovery services are important for the student and research experience and for ensuring that valuable and unique collections are accessible as widely as possible.  There are often barriers in place which prevent resources being openly discoverable, such as technical and licensing requirements. This summit, which will also be live streamed, invites attendees to share ideas and approaches to these challenges. It will compare and contrast endeavours that desire to meet the opportunities that open data presents. The summit will:
 
Showcase new and exciting initiatives on how open data is delivering a digital world that is ‘live, local and social’
Test boundaries and ask inconvenient questions about the relevance, benefits and impact of open data
Explore open data from a developer’s perspective to understand better how the data can be used in novel and innovative ways.
Andy McGregor, Jisc, programme manager says: “Jisc has been working on making library, museum and archive collections easier to find on the web for the last two years. The approach we have taken has been based around taking an open approach to metadata. One of the really exciting aspects of this work is how many other people around the world are pursuing similar strategies. Europeana, The Digital Public Library of America, the BBC and the British Library are all pursuing exciting new developments based on open metadata. The Discovery Summit has been designed to explore these similarities and allow us to work out how we can work together to address shared challenges.”
 
The two day programme  includes presentations from:
 
Bill Thompson, Head of Partnership Development, Archive Development, BBC
Alastair Dunning, Programme Manager, European Library
Roly Keating, Chief Executive, British Library
Antonio Acuna, Head of Data.gov.uk, Cabinet Office
Maura Marx, Secretariat Director, Digital Public Library of America.
Neil Wilson, British Library says: “The British Library is participating in several international initiatives building standards to be used in the next generation of resource discovery systems. We also work with partners in the wider community via our open metadata strategy to explore the possibilities of new resource discovery technologies such as linked open data. The common factor is collaboration since whatever the technologies, our users need interoperable solutions and we can no longer afford to use standalone approaches. Events like the Discovery Summit are therefore essential in enabling us to clearly identify the shared challenges libraries, galleries, archives and museums face together with the joint actions needed to address them.”
 
The hashtag for the event is #disc13

The opportunities
Discovery of resources for research and teaching is an area of almost continual upheaval and presents many challenges for libraries, museums, archives and other cultural and educational institutions. It is an area that is essential to engage in as effective resource discovery services are important for the student and research experience and for ensuring that our valuable and unique collections are accessible as widely as possible. There are also opportunities to be seized to make systems and processes more efficient.
 
The future
Some groundbreaking experiments and initiatives offer the promise of fresh and sustainable approaches to resource discovery. For example the British Library and Harvard experiments with open bibliographic metadata, Europeana and Digital New Zealand’s technical approach; the vision offered by the Digital Public Library of America and JISC’s Discovery programme.
 
Is open enough?
These approaches are not without challenges. Many people have been successful in releasing open data but there are issues that need to be addressed to ensure that data is used to improve resource discovery. We need to ensure that data is easy to use by addressing the technical, quality, legal, economic and social challenges that are emerging.
 
The event
With so many developments in this area, Jisc and the British Library have decided to host a meeting to share ideas and approaches and to uncover commonalities and new lessons. The aim of the meeting is to assess if we can collaborate on addressing the common technical, political and social challenges that are preventing us realising our grand visions for better resource discovery.
 
To enable us to focus on these challenges the event will be split into two parts. Day one will focus on sharing our challenges and the approaches we are all developing. Day two will build on the knowledge shared in day one and attempt to develop ideas and plans for addressing some of the highest priority challenges.  
 
Who should attend
University librarians and archivists; Library directors, senior managers and senior services librarians; Museum curators; Expert developers from the UK and abroad
educational materials, higher education resources, online resources, digital
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Repositories support project

25 Januari 2013

The Repositories Support Project (RSP) is a 5.5 year JISC-funded initiative contributing to building repository capacity, knowledge and skills within UK higher education institutions. Through providing guidance and advice it benefits the whole of the UK sector resulting in the wider take-up and development of institutional repositories in HEIs.

The aim of the project is to progress the vision of a deployed network of interoperable repositories for academic papers, learning materials and research data across the UK. Whilst fulfilling the business requirements of HEIs to manage their assets, showcase research outputs, and share learning materials, such a network of populated repositories is a major step forward in the provision of open access materials.

higher education, higher education resources, OER

OER Approval - About Challenges and the Understanding of Licensing

25 Januari 2013
OER, higher education resources, engagement with OER

How to approach OER - Doubts and Benefits

21 Januari 2013
OER, higher education resources, engagement with OER
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Innovative ICT for networked curricula

14 Januari 2013

The general aim of the NetCU project is to develop models, guidelines and strategies for transnational networked curricula that supply a broader range of content and learning activities, that deliver state-of-the-art knowledge in the best quality supported by innovative ICT in an international setting - curricula that are meeting the diverse needs of today's student population and lifelong learners and that are symbolizing a European identity of higher education and lifelong learning in the 21st century.

The NetCU Handbook presents easy-to-use scenarios and provides examples of best practices. The Handbook will be available in various formats: the original, digital format, with two main navigation modes: by topic, to offer the reader a view on what aspects are relevant when undertaking a network curriculum, and by audience, where we start with the reader and his/hers questions arising from the particular situation in which they want to start a networked curriculum. Full version of Handbook is also available as a single PDF file suitable for the printing and viewing on most tablet devices.

higher education resources, change in higher education, campus tools
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EADTU Annual Conference 2013 "Transition to open and on-line education in European universities"

07 Januari 2013

The coming Annual conference of EADTU will take place in Paris from 24-25th of October 2013. The conference is gently hosted by our member the “Fédération Interuniversitaire de l'Enseignement à Distance, France”, (FIED), embracing 35 French universities and with the support of the French Ministry of Higher Education (MINES).

The Annual Conference 2013 will be titled: "Transition to open and on-line education in European universities". Supplementary to the concept of former conferences it will start in 2013 with a dedicated scientific strand with publications in an international research Journal.
A provisional programme indicating the various topics of the conference strands will follow soon as well as the related call for abstracts. Follow the latest news under the EADTU conference 2013 website.

change in higher education, higher education resources, OER