What does SCRAN stand for? I could not open the web page.

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Lewis Elton

At 14:59 07/01/02 +0000, you wrote:
>The following information about the SCRAN Awards may be of interest to List
>members. We are particularly interested in making Awards available for the
>production of problem-based learning materials (based on resources from
>SCRAN at www.scran.ac.uk).
>
>SCRAN AWARDS FOR MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT
>
>SCRAN is pleased to announce the launch of the SCRAN Awards for Materials
>Development. Awards of £1000 are available to lecturers and
>learning resource staff in FE and HE to fund the creation of learning
>materials based on resources from SCRAN.
>
>The aim is to assist lecturers to develop materials that will be useful to
>their own learning and teaching activities, as well as to provide good
>practice exemplars that will be of interest and value to the wider
>community. The completed materials together with case study documentation
>will be made available for download from the SCRAN website.
>
>SCRAN is looking to commission materials of different types across a wide
>range of subject areas. Applicants should have recent experience of working
>in an FE or HE institution in the subject area of the proposed resource and
>access to the tools and skills required to complete the project
>successfully.
>
>Further information is available on the SCRAN website at
>www.scran.ac.uk/awards/
>The closing date for applications is 31 January 2002. Completed materials
>should be submitted by 30 September 2002.
>
>For further information about the Awards, please contact the SCRAN
>Tertiary Education Officer, Elaine Mowat. [log in to unmask]  tel: 0131 662
>1211
>
>What is SCRAN?
>SCRAN (www.scran.ac.uk) is an online resource base of copyright cleared
>multimedia materials for learning and teaching. The materials have been
>gathered from museums, galleries, libraries, media organisations, specialist
>collections and archives and cover a wide range of subject areas.  Staff in
>licensed institutions can download individual images, audio files and video
>clips and use them to create their own learning materials.  If you would
>like to apply for a SCRAN Award but your institution does not have a SCRAN
>licence, please contact Elaine Mowat, the SCRAN Tertiary Education Officer
>for advice about gaining full access to the SCRAN resource base.
>
>This funding has been made available to SCRAN from JISC and is part of an
>initiative to better integrate SCRAN within the learning and teaching
>framework of the DNER (www.jisc.ac.uk/dner).
>
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>Elaine Mowat
>Tertiary Education Officer
>SCRAN
>Abden House
>1 Marchhall Crescent
>Edinburgh
>EH16 5HP
>
>Tel: + 44 (0) 131 662 1211
>Fax: + 44 (0) 131 662 1511
>www.scran.ac.uk


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Lewis Elton
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University College London
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