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Becta (formerly known as the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) was a non-departmental public body (popularly known as a Quango)] funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, in the UK It was a charity and a company limited by guarantee. In the post-election spending review in May 2010, it was announced that Becta was to be abolished. The organisation went into liquidation in April 2011 following its funding from government ceasing in March 2011. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Becta)
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21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia |
Amber Thomas explores the ways in which emerging research practices and Wikipedia illustrate the changing boundaries of academic work. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 67: Changes Afoot |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 67. |
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From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA) |
Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
The Future of Interoperability and Standards in Education: A JISC CETIS Event |
Sarah Currier reports on an international working meeting involving a range of educational interoperability standards bodies and communities, organised by JISC CETIS. |
January 2010, issue62, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2008, issue56, news and events |
The Second Life of UK Academics |
John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating how the Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
OpenID: Decentralised Single Sign-on for the Web |
Andy Powell and David Recordon take a brief look at OpenID and ask what relevance it has to e-learning. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
The JISC Annual Conference 2007 |
Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference. |
April 2007, issue51, event report |
Accessibility: The Current Situation and New Directions |
Kevin Carey describes accessibility by disabled people to digital information systems across broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet, looks into the future and makes recommendations. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
What Are Your Terms? |
Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
10th CETIS-TechDis Accessibility Special Interest Group Meeting |
Ann Chapman reports on a one-day meeting that focused among other things on accessibility in virtual learning environments and personal learning profiles. |
April 2005, issue43, event report |
What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning Object Metadata Standard? |
Jean Godby assesses the customised subsets of metadata elements that have been defined by 35 projects using the LOM standard to describe e-learning resources. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2004, issue41, news and events |
The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources |
Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh |
John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
Towards the Digital Aquifer: Introducing the Common Information Environment |
Paul Miller discusses current efforts by UK agencies to collaborate on a Common Information Environment that meets the diverse needs of current and future consumers of digital content and services. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
JISC Terminology Services Workshop |
Sarah Shreeves reports on a one-day workshop on current developments and future directions for JISC terminology services held in London, February 2004. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent Library |
John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
Managed Learning? |
Nicole Harris on current developments towards Managed Learning Environments in the ANGEL project. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Web Focus: Report on the Fifth Institutional Web Management Workshop |
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, reports on the IWMW event in his regular column. |
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The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library |
Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey with an overview of the DNER. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
JASPER Further Education Meeting |
Martin Hamilton reports on the recent JASPER one day meeting on the expansion of JISC services to cover the FE community. |
June 2000, issue24, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
May 1998, issue15, news and events |
