Top Five Tips for RSCs

JISC Legal's Top Five Tips for RSCs 

JISC Legal is proud to present a raft of resources to help you to be confident in compliance, and to promote efficiency and effectiveness through these challenging times of change.

We invite you to explore our five areas of top tips, all using free-to-use resources to assist the agile learning provider, including:

  1. How to use other people’s stuff online (getting effective with copyright in colleges)
    - try out our copyright resources, including audiovisual materials useful for staff development and guides at various levels.
     
  2. Ensuring your learners learn in safety online (e-safety and safeguarding duties for colleges)
    - try out our e-safety resources.
     
  3. Being proud of your respect for learners’ personal information (data protection for colleges)
    - try out our data protection resources.
     
  4. Being sure with social networking (Web 2.0 legal issues for colleges)
    - try out our web 2.0 resources.
     
  5. Don’t be outlawed in outreach, be compliant in the community (external engagement legal issues for colleges)
    - try out our External Engagement resources.

 

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