Paul Brennan, deputy editor of BBC Onlines's News Interactive, and member of the ONA's International Committee, send along these notes about what's happening at the Beeb ...

The BBC has opened up 80 video clips from the past 50 years from the news archive for the public to use as they choose under licence.

It's UK only (because of the licence fee) and it'll be interesting to see how they get used. It's a modest start to what will become a much bigger undertaking if the rights issues can be resolved:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4578248.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/01_january/03/archive.shtml

BBC journalists have been completing a 45-minute e-learning course, Reporting the European Union, sponsored by the BBC College of Journalism and aimed at improving working knowledge of the EU. The course has three phases - a quiz to test knowledge and two scenarios to build and develop knowledge. It was designed as part of the BBC's commitment to improve EU coverage and to better understand the way its institutions work.