JISC TechDis is a JISC Advance Service, and it aims to be the leading educational advisory service, working across the UK, in the fields of accessibility and inclusion.

Our mission is to support the education and wider skills sectors in achieving greater accessibility and inclusion by stimulating creativity, innovation and providing expert advice and guidance relating to the use of technology across education, research and knowledge exchange.

JISC TechDis is based in York and covers the UK and is hosted by The Higher Education Academy.

The JISC TechDis blog provides news, context and opinion on work the service is currently undertaking, the latest technology, developments in the sector and useful resources we come across.

You can access JISC TechDis via your list homepage as shown below, via the JISCMail Tools menu or the JISC TechDis website.

How can we help you and your institution?


JISC TechDis provides high quality resources, advice and guidance on promoting accessibility and inclusion through the innovative use of technology.

JISC TechDis continues to support work in a variety of settings::

• Higher Education
• Further Education and the wider skills agenda
• Independent Specialist Colleges
• Adult and Community Learning
• Work Based Learning
• Business and Community Engagement (3rd stream or mission activities included)
• Offender Learning
• 3rd Sector

JISC TechDis is currently involved with such key topics as:

• Skills Development
• Knowledge Transfer
• Policy and Practice
• Leadership
• e-Learning
• Mobile learning (m-Learning)
• e-Portfolios
• e-Books
• Creation of Learning Materials
• e-Assessment
• Libraries and alternative formats
• Web Accessibility and Web2.0 services
• Assistive Technologies
• Reasonable adjustments
• Strategy, policy and self evaluation

Members of the JISC TechDis team also attend and speak at many conferences and events related to ICT and education and run a number of workshops on the various topics mentioned above. Details of forthcoming events are available from our website.

In addition, JISC TechDis also run many online workshops such as the Online Accessibility Self Evaluations, designed to help institutions identify areas of their provision that need attention, and point to the advice and guidance needed to make a difference.

Where can I get further information on JISC TechDis?

Contact details for the service are:

Address
JISC TechDis
c/o The Higher Education Academy Building
Innovation Way
York Science Park
YORK
YO10 5BR

Telephone/fax/email
T: +44(0) 1904 717580
F: +44(0) 1904 717505
E: helpdesk@techdis.ac.uk

Web
JISC TechDis website: http://www.techdis.ac.uk
JISC TechDis Blog: http://www.techdis.ac.uk/blog
YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/jisctechdis

You can also subscribe to our various RSS feeds:
News - http://www.techdis.ac.uk/newsrss.php
Events - http://www.techdis.ac.uk/eventsrss.php
Blog - http://techdis.ac.uk/blog/?feed=rss2
YouTube - http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/jisctechdis/uploads

Alternatively, you can follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jisc_techdis

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