website tracker
Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

The UK Higher Education Blog

News from Microsoft written by the UK Education team

Browse by Tags

All Tags » training materials   (RSS)
Campus Agreement – eLearning benefit
Something that has come up several times recently, especially since a recent UCISA event in Oxford is what education/learning material customers entitled to under the Campus Agreement.  The good news is, quite a lot actually and there is no bad news. Read More...
Tech Ed arrives again - 3rd to 7th November
Time to start being nice to the people that sign off your professional development budget? (I know, you always are…) Tech Ed (also previously known as IT Forum) is in Barcelona again this year on the 3rd to the 7th November, and the agenda and registration Read More...
Partners in Learning programme relaunched
Although this information is predominantly about work we are doing with schools, I thought that it is worth publishing on the HE blog, as many universities have links to teacher training and are actively engaged with schools and their development programmes. Read More...
Future Education Team online briefings
Over the next few months, we are going to running a series of briefings on specific aspects of ICT in education, relating to some of our newer technologies and their use in education. They are all running as Live Meetings, where you are able to watch Read More...
MSDN - The Microsoft Developer Network - Free Events
If you have developers within your university, busily coding applications and systems for your intranet, then you may want to let them know about the free MSDN events coming up over the next few months. They're aimed at mainstream development engineers, Read More...
Getting students and staff started with Office 2007 - some handy help
Even amongst those universities who are moving to Office 2007 this summer, one common fear is whether students/staff will be able to quickly transition to the new Fluent interface in Office 2007 . If you want more help, then I've just come across these Read More...
Upcoming Live Meeting - Microsoft's Enterprise Client Licence
If you've not had a chance to join a Live Meeting before, then this would be a good opportunity to find out how it works. Basically, it's just like a real meeting, but without the travel! Dominic Watts will be presenting this one, and once you've logged Read More...
Network Access Protection - defending yourself against you users!
We were recently doing some research with students, and found that most of them are arriving at university with their own laptops and computers. Once there, they seem to have two modes of using them. Once method is to leave them in their room, and carry Read More...
Basic Digital Literacy Skills for Staff and Students
As you start planning for next year's arrival of new students and staff, you may also be thinking of the rush of "How do I do this..." IT questions. Well, if any of your service users need help getting started with computers then you might find the Digital Read More...
Office 2007 - Free online training courses
Helping your users get up to speed with Microsoft Word and the Office 2007 System When you first open Word 2007, it looks very different to what you may have become used to, because it has been designed to make your life a whole lot easier. So here's Read More...
Page view tracker