A few events in Netskills Development

YearEvent
1995Established at Newcastle University as part of the JISC e-Lib programme
1995Netskills-news mailing list established, it currently has over 1,000 members
1996Netskills staff participate in the INET internet workshops for developing countries
1996TONIC online internet tutorial launched and Netskills Training Suite opened
1997Netskills staff write the TERENA Internet Users Guide and for the first time over 1000 people attend Netskills training events
1998Netskills becomes a JISC service and is largely self-funded from workshop and training materials income
1999Gold Scheme launched providing access to Netskills Training Materials under licence
2000Netskills expands to include the further education sector as part of its core community
2001Training provided to the public libraries sector as part of the People's Network (over 40 authorities involved) and the 10,000th individual attends a Netskills workshop
2002The Netskills BTEC-accredited Professional Development Certificate launched
2003Launch of Netskills e-learning workshop programmes
2004Netskills writes Effective Practice with e-Learning case studies for the JISC e-Learning and Pedagogy programme and provides a training programme for the Specialist Colleges community
2005Provision of training programmes for the Adult and Community Learning (ACL) sector and Netskills expands to 14 staff
2006Launch of the new BTEC accreditation programmes in e-learning and web development at Award, Certificate and Diploma levels
2007Presence on Facebook established
2008Establishment of BCE Support team
2008Neskills adopts a new branding as JISC Netskills
2009JISC Advance is launched with Netskills as a member service
2009Launch of highly successful Web2Practice guides
2010Established a presence on Twitter, YouTube and SlideShare
2010Complete new visual identity including a change of logo
2010Provide support for the online JISC e-learning conference with over 300 attendees
2011Staff move offices to be colocated with the Training Suite facility.
2011Joined the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University
2011Launch of Maximising Online Resource Effectiveness amd BCE Business as Usual resources