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has seen high levels of engagement and participation since its first courses began
in October last year. The first course from
the University of Groningen will begin on
FutureLearn.com
this September, adding to its Business and Management portfolio. The trans- disciplinary course will target people in, or aspiring to leadership roles, and teach them the first principles of complexity, uncertainty and how to make decisions in a complex world. Simon Nelson, Chief Executive of
FutureLearn, said: “We’re entering an exciting period of expansion and it’s my great pleasure to welcome the University of Groningen as FutureLearn’s first partner from The Netherlands. It’s especially significant that we enter into this collaboration as the University celebrates 400 years of excellence in teaching and research.”
YORK AWARDED FOR ONLINE TUTORIAL
The University of York’s Careers team has won a top accolade at the 2014 Blackboard Catalyst Awards for its online Employability Tutorial. The Europe, Middle East and
Africa Student Impact Award recognises the success of the Careers’ Employability Tutorial – a self-study resource – in increasing student engagement with Careers through appointments and events. Blackboard honours those who push
Cambridge doubles up on data protection
Schools from the University of Cambridge can, for the first time, store essential research databases to a secure, offsite, replicated data archive. The system, which
copies data from existing department- level backup systems to provide secondary storage and protection, gives researchers greater confidence in the security and safety of data held. It also enables compliance with data protection guidelines from UK Research Councils funding agencies. Designed and
integrated by data processing, management, storage and analytics provider OCF, the high performance storage
system uses DataDirect Networks [DDN] storage. It also uses IBM’s GPFS file system for data management. The School of
Humanities and Social Sciences and School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cambridge have combined financial resources to procure the new 400TB system. The system is available to all 20 departments within both schools. Managed by the
University Information Services, the new storage system extracts data from faculty level backup systems on flexible terms set by the technical staff for each school – this could be twice per day, nightly or on a rotational basis. In
some departments the new storage system is second- or even third- level protection. Right now, 11 departments are actively using the storage facility. For added protection,
data is stored and replicated at two sites – within a mile of each other. The whole system enables greater protection and recovery of essential data in the event of a disaster. Importantly, the system incorporates smaller departments that would otherwise have been excluded from secondary backups due to cost. The system also enables the University to comply with data storage guidance from research councils.
the boundaries of their educational programmes and technology in order to deliver innovative and effective learning experiences. The Student Impact Award recognises individuals and/or institutions that successfully increase levels of student engagement or retention through new academic, student support or administrative strategies. Development of the online self-
study resource on the University’s Blackboard Learn VLE began in 2011 with the goal of beter preparing students for the world of work. The tutorial is intended to increase student engagement with Careers and improve the level of graduate employment. To date, it has been used by 15,000
students and has doubled the number of students engaging with Careers. In addition, the average Employability Tutorial user atends 13% more appointments and 60% more careers events than a non-user, while 70% of those atending careers appointments or events are tutorial users. Made up of eight short optional
sections, it takes students through a range of exercises to help them understand their own development needs, the opportunities available to them and how they can make sure that they are in a position to succeed.
York image: (c) Upper Cut Productions
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