RDN launches Virtual Training Suite
News summary
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.
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, 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: rdn-vts@bristol.ac.uk
July 2000
