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Announcing the launch of the RDN Virtual Training Suite 
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http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/

The RDN Virtual Training Suite is a JISC national initiative designed 
to offer free online training in Internet information skills to the 
higher and further education communities in the UK. 

It comprises a set of "teach yourself" tutorials, including Internet
Psychologist, 
delivered over the Web, each of which offers Internet skills training in a
particular 
academic subject. The tutorials offer "any time, any place" training, 
take less than an hour each to complete and include quizzes and 
interactive exercises to lighten the learning experience. 

All the tutorials are completely free for members of the UK education 
communities. They can be used by individuals as a "teach yourself" 
tool, or by lecturers, librarians or IT trainers wanting to teach 
Internet information skills to their students.

The tutorials offer a subject-based approach to Internet skills 
training, enabling the user to: 

TOUR: key Internet resources for the subject 
DISCOVER: how to improve Internet search skills 
REVIEW: the need for critical evaluation of information on the Internet 
REFLECT: on practical ways to use the Internet to support learning, teaching
and research 

The content of tutorials within the Virtual Training Suite has been 
authored by a distributed team of academics and librarians based in 
universities and research institutes across the UK.

The RDN Virtual Training Suite is just one of the ways the Resource 
Discovery Network (RDN) is helping everyone involved in learning, 
teaching and research to make the most of the Internet.
The Virtual Training Suite has been built at the Institute for Learning 
and Research Technology (ILRT), University of Bristol. 
Please promote the RDN Virtual Training Suite to your 
colleagues/students/librarians/staff development team. 

VISIT THE RDN VIRTUAL TRAINING SUITE AT: 
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/

For a full press release see: 
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/news/press/rdnvts/july2000.html
For further information please contact Emma Place or Justine Kitchen 
using the following email address:
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