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Topic: IT and Digital, Higher Education, Bloom VLE, The University of London, CoSector News

 France Barth is one of our Learning Technologists in the Bloom team at CoSector - University of London.

Topic: IT and Digital, Higher Education, Bloom VLE, The University of London

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: IT and Digital, Bloom VLE, CoSector News, Higher Education

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 19^th 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: Higher Education, Bloom VLE, 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.

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Topic: IT and Digital, Bloom VLE, Services, Higher Education, 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: IT and Digital, Bloom VLE