France Barth is one of our Learning Technologists in the Bloom team at CoSector - University of London.
Topic: Bloom VLE, The University of London, Higher Education, IT and Digital
Unlike the meaning of the term archive, I think curation is a 'doing' word that describes the actions of an information professional working with content or resources. The term has been applied to many sectors recently, and I sense its meaning...
Topic: Digital Preservation, Research Data
We are delighted to announce that we have recently formed a new partnership with Blackboard to introduce Blackboard Ally to help our customers in the education sector improve accessibility and inclusion for students.
Topic: CoSector News, Bloom VLE, Higher Education, IT and Digital
Here at CoSector - University of London, we have some exciting news in regards to a new alliance. We have partnered with the open source community, Samvera, to provide new repository systems to customers within the higher education, research and...
Topic: Repositories
Our annual Landlord Forum took place on Monday 19th March this year, and once again it brought together a mix of London landlords, exhibitors and specialist speakers to the halls of Senate House.
Topic: Housing
It can be hard to keep students motivated over breaks as they lose their day-to-day structure and are surrounded by more distractions. However, students have deadlines that demand attention over this unstructured period, and with the help of...
Topic: Bloom VLE, Higher Education, IT and Digital
On 21 December, Moodle published its approach and plan in terms of supporting organisations with becoming General Data Protection and Regulation (GDPR) compliant under new EU legislation coming into force on 25 May 2018.
More general information...
Topic: Services, Bloom VLE, Higher Education, IT and Digital, GDPR
Here is an extract from Ed Pinsent's recent White Paper, "Is your organisation using its storage wisely?" The paper may be of interest to archivists, records managers, network admins, or anyone who worries that the departmental shared drives are...
Topic: Digital Preservation, IT and Digital
As a virtual learning environment (VLE) supplier, we have access to and utilise a lot of personal data provided by our customers as the ultimate ‘controllers’ of this data. We, by definition, are therefore the ‘processors’ of data and GDPR...
Topic: Bloom VLE, IT and Digital
A belated reflection on another aspect of PASIG17 from me today. I wish to consider aspects of “storage” which emerged from the three days of the conference.
Topic: Digital Preservation
