Welcome to the June issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. Please find the content for the newsletter below and we will be updating this to the Jisc blog site shortly. As we are now starting to slowly emerge from lockdown, our focus is still on how we can best support our FE members and […]
Welcome to the May issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. We’re sure you are now settled into the rhythms of working from home and supporting your learners from a distance. Over the last few weeks, since schools and colleges have been closed, everyone has been relying on their VLEs to ensure students are getting the best […]
Hello, Jisc Members. For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Pippin and I’m the Graduate Digital Librarian for FE here at Jisc. For the past few months, I’ve been working on Virtual Library. Virtual Library is a new service that allows you to find all of Jisc’s resources for FE, and […]
Welcome to the April issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. A lot has changed since our last newsletter. Almost all of you will be working remotely, as are all of us here at Jisc, and dealing with unprecedented challenges. There won’t be any changes in how you access the e-books provided to you by Jisc, and […]
COVID-19 update webinar April 8th The supporting materials from our second webinar from Wednesday 8th April are now available and can be downloaded using the links below: Webinar recording Presentation used in webinar Chat transcript, including top tips from FE community COVID-19 update webinar March 25th The recording of the webinar from Wednesday 25th March […]
To support FE members with home-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, several publishers have generously allowed us to have free access to 61 titles that have previously been included in the collection but have since expired. These titles will be available until 30th June 2020. To access the titles, simply search for the ISBNs on Ebook […]
In light of the COVID-19 crisis, we are changing the focus of our planned e-books for FE webinar clinic which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 25th March at 14.00. Instead of our scheduled tutorial, we are going to focus this webinar on the learning resources that Jisc have made available for free to […]
This year at Digifest, the librarians from Ashford College gave a ten minute lighting talk about how they promote e-books for FE to students and staff across their college. “We love e-books for FE because the books are current and relevant, and the interface is user-friendly.” Their strategy is divided into three key sections, and […]
If you need to support your vocational learners to carry on learning from home, Jisc’s vocational learning resources provide coverage in the following subject areas: Construction (https://construction.jisc.ac.uk/) Digital and IT (https://digitalandit.jisc.ac.uk/) Education and Childcare (https://educationandchildcare.jisc.ac.uk/) Hairdressing (https://hairdressing.jisc.ac.uk/) Health and social care (https://healthandsocialcare.jisc.ac.uk/) Jisc is making these resources open and freely available to all schools, work-based […]
Jisc are currently running an important piece of work on FE libraries/LRCs. The aim of the work is to get a better understanding of our FE members’ needs, priorities and challenges, so we can review how our products and services fit with your needs and establish where we can be of most help to you […]