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LEADING EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES
By Sarah Allen-Reading, British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC)
The BUFVC has recently announced
the nominations for its annual Learning on Screen Awards. The Learning on Screen Awards are the only UK awards celebrating and rewarding excellence in the use of moving image and related media in learning, teaching and research. Entries to the Awards include student
film, educational broadcast productions, resources produced in-house by education institutions and curriculum- focused content, with those leading the way in producing new and innovative online resources being awarded in the Educational Multimedia Award category. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the types of
resources entered into the Educational Multimedia Award category have changed remarkably in recent years, as new technologies have emerged and user expectations have developed, especially in terms of resource interactivity and user experience. New technologies, including hand-held devices, apps, e-books, and improvements in game and animation creation, are now being used to create innovative and imaginative educational resources that can be used to educate learners, from pre-school to university level and beyond. This year the four nominated
educational multimedia entries include: a comprehensive resource for teachers delivering Key Stage 2 science lessons centred around specially-made short films; an animated video and activity resource for the teaching and learning of grammar and punctuation for ages seven to 11; an interactive website providing films of leading British theatre productions, alongside interviews with cast and creative team members, supporting documentaries and downloadable study guides for use in the classroom; plus an iPad app on the 50-year history of the National Theatre, designed to educate a wide audience on the history of the Theatre and the skill behind theatre-making. To learn more about the nominated
entries visit the BUFVC website or join us on 24 April 2014 at the Learning on Screen Awards ceremony where this year’s leading educational productions will be showcased (
www.bufvc.ac.uk).
Network benefits for Plymouth
Comtact, one of the UK’s fastest growing mobility, convergence and cloud service providers, has implemented Aurora, its network monitoring and management software at Plymouth University, enabling real-time detection, diagnosis and resolution of network performance. With a mission to be ‘the enterprise
university’, Plymouth is known as a dynamic and innovative place to work and study, transforming lives through education, world-class research and innovation on a global stage. To support and enable the delivery of their ambitions and extend their physical boundaries, Plymouth aims to become an “edgeless” digital university. With this vision in mind, Plymouth
University recognised it needed to safeguard its infrastructure. In particular the growing demands placed
BELOW: Plymouth University
BYOD: a nightmare waiting to happen? The study, which
A new study by Altodigital has revealed a potential IT nightmare waiting to happen as educational institutions fail to properly manage ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD). The research revealed
that despite the BYOD trend continuing to surge, with more than two thirds (71%) of establishments admiting to ‘bringing their own devices’, almost a third (30%) are still without a specific IT strategy in place to manage the process, puting their IT systems at detrimental risk. Mobile printing – an
application of BYOD and something 20% of teaching staff are currently doing and a further 47% are planning to – presents even more serious security implications if not properly managed, especially if staff are using unproven and un-tested mobile print software as 32% are. Just 15% said they used company-
approved software for mobile printing. It appears both these
factors could be causing some serious problems; 39% of respondents within the education sector admited they had faced IT problems as a result of this lack of strategy; the most common being network security breaches or viruses (71%), network and connectivity issues (48%) and lack of email or internet access (23%).
questioned 89 decision- makers in the UK education sector, was commissioned by Altodigital to help it beter understand emerging document and print trends within the legal sector. Tony Burnet, group sales
director at Altodigital, said: “BYOD is not a new trend, and as the research shows, it is enjoying widespread adoption among almost all sectors. “However, we don’t want
people to be put off from embracing BYOD, and applications such as mobile printing can present enormous benefits to the educational sector. Securely managing the process does not need to be overly complicated, and we expect to see IT departments within the educational sector increasingly integrating secure mobile print applications as part of their broader BYOD strategy in 2014.”
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