NLN Contract Awarded to JANET(UK)

The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is pleased to announce that following a tender process a new contract has been awarded to host the NLN materials. The new contract will rationalise the current arrangements and simplify access for all sectors, enabling users from authorised organisations in education and training to access the NLN materials free of charge under licence from the LSC. The management of the service will now be provided by JANET(UK) in partnership with the LSC and the hosting service contract has been awarded to Xtensis Ltd. who have been involved in the NLN materials programme since its inception and have been successfully offering NLN materials access to Adult Community Learning and offender learning providers for the last 2 years.

The new service will be fully integrated into the existing support site at www.nln.ac.uk, providing a unified point of access to the materials, and supporting the entire community of NLN materials users. The new site will include all the features currently enjoyed by the ACL community, such as collection creation, powerful search and browse, and export for easy import into virtual learning environments (VLEs), such as Moodle, or immediate use on CD, DVD, or Intranets, plus a range of new features and enhancements. The service will be launched mid October.

Further details will be forwarded to you in September and will be available from www.nln.ac.uk.

Please forward this information to anyone to whom it might be of interest.

About the NLN materials: Funded by the LSC and available free to the education and training sector, the NLN materials represent one of the most substantial and wide-ranging collections of e-learning materials in the UK.