Higher Education news from Netskills

Netskills Consultant Trainer Steve Boneham helped Information Services staff explore the use of social media to better understand and engage with their users at a recent event held in Birmingham.

After gaining a BTEC accreditation at a Netskills e-Learning workshop, a staff member at a Scottish College multiplied the impact of the workshop at his institution.

Consultant Trainers Steve Boneham and Chris Thomson presented at a recent event organised by the JISC Regional Support Centre (RSC) Northern, held at the Netskills Training Suite.

Online delivery enabled The University of Limerick to receive two onsite workshops last week, without the need for either trainers or attendees to travel.

A new Netskills workshop on HTML5 is proving to be popular with bookings filling the calendar in December.

Working with free web-based tools can be a great asset in e-learning, says Netskills Consultant Trainer Chris Thomson.

An innovative new online language resource, capturing over 100 years of the Tyneside dialect, was launched yesterday at a Newcastle University public lecture.

A Netskills coordinated project mapping out a new national skills framework for Higher and Further Education personnel showcased its progress at the AURIL conference last week.

Consultant Trainer Chris Thomson joined fieldwork specialists in Wales last week to explore how QR codes and other technologies can be used to enhance fieldwork.

Three of the Netskills team were at the annual ALT-C conference last week, held at the University of Leeds.