RSC Services

The JISC Regional Support Centre for Scotland exisits to advise learning providers in supported FE & HE institutions realise thier ambitions in the deployment of information and communications technololgy to achieve their organisational mission both at a strategic and operational level.

The RSC service supports the wider development of the JISC and JISC Advance strategies throughout the UK by delivery of the RSC core remit. In this context, the RSC provides appropriate advice and support by:

Assisting in transforming organisational culture through advice and guidance on e-strategy development and implementation.

Engaging effectively and regularly with senior managers to ensure that RSC support is both relevant and appropriate to individual requirements.

Facilitating opportunities for collaboration and the sharing of best practice and innovation amongst institutions and partner agencies.

Providing a gateway to expert advice, information and research outcomes from JISC and other organisations.

Focused clearly on the needs of its users, RSC Scotland is committed to providing agile, holistic services and developing new services where required to ensure the community meets the emerging technology challenges across the education sector.

Infrastructure, Systems & Technologies

The RSC Scotland has the expertise and experience to make a valuable contribution to any learning providers IT service provision and keep your staff up to date with the latest thinking in technology campus deployment and management.

Access & Inclusion

The RSC Scotland offers a range of services for senior managers, policy makers and practitioners, and an assortment of opportunities to raise awareness of enabling technologies and accessible practices. This will help to embed inclusion into everyday activity across your organisation.

Curriculum Support

Our role is to support the use of technology for learning & teaching by disseminating current developments and providing consultation, advice and training. RSC Scotland has a particular focus on embedding e-Assessment in the curriculum and specific provision relating to e-Assessment.

Learning & Development

Focusing on the Learning & Development requirements of staff from Further & Higher education, RSC Scotland offers a range of training opportunities, services and resources to facilitate the use of technology. They include workshops, Learning Online courses delivered fully online and RSCtv webinars. RSC Scotland also offers a training needs analysis service and hosts many useful resources on our website including online topic briefings and a range of learning resources.

Learning Resources

The RSC supports the use of Learning Resources by providing strategic advice in areas such as Content Management, Digital Literacy to encourage the use of e-Conent, e-Books and Digital Repositories. We do that by disseminating information about e-Content initiaitves and work with JISC and other agenices to provide advice on the use of repositories for the sharing and re-use of digital content. We facilitate opportunities for sharing best practice by co-ordinating an LRC Forum and a Web 2.0 Forum for Academic Librarians.

Communication & Sharing

In order to provide Scotland wide support to our institutions we rely on effective communication tools that have been selected to allow us to keep you informed without flooding your inbox! Staff use a range of social media tools to encourage and facilitate fedback and two way information flow. A monthly electronic newsfeed and termly newsletter are produced and the RSC run a number of forums supported with JISCMail lists.

Case Studies

Shining a spotlight on best practice and innovative use of technology in Scottish Higher and Further Education, the case studies gathered to date make an impressive collection and an extremely useful resource. They are available to download from our website and many also feature as podcasts on our iTunes channel.

Case studies allow institutions to demonstrate clever ways of working using ICT solutions. They are an excellent means of sharing experience affording other institutions the insight and the "how to" for adopting similar changes within their own college or university. The team at RSC Scotland would be delighted to provide guidance on the case study process, send a case study template and will write up the case study for you! It's a win - win for all with the added possibility of winning an iTech Award.

iTech Awards 2012
Awarded at the end of our annual conference, these highly prized iTech trophies are presented to the institutions considered to have submitted the best case study in each of the four award categories:

• Technology & Business Systems
• Learning & Teaching
• Access & Inclusion
• Learner Services