Dear Members
ALT news digest #37
In this issue:
1. Welcome to new members
2. ALT news
3. ALT events
4. Other events
5. Other news
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1. Welcome to new members
We are pleased to announce that the following organisations have
joined ALT:
Colleges:
University of Liverpool http://www.liv.ac.uk
London School of Economics http://www.lse.ac.uk
University of Westminster http://www.
University of York http://www.york.ac.uk
Corporate members:
Eduserv
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2. ALT news
The ALT office will be closed for the long weekend but will be open
again as normal on Tuesday 6 May. We have been very busy
organising events for the coming months and have also been
receiving a high number of letters and emails, please be patient as
we deal with incoming emails and mark as urgent anything which
requires immediate attention.
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3. ALT events
3.1 ALT Policy Board
8 July 2003
London
Further details will be sent out to all institutional and corporate reps
very soon.
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4. Other events
4.1 CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE 30 APRIL 2003
The Ninth Sloan-C International Conference on
Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN):
November 14 - 16, 2003
Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando, Florida
The University of Central Florida in collaboration with the Sloan
foundation, Pennsylvania State University, SCOLE, and American
Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) invite you to submit a
proposal that reflects implications for the field of specific online
learning experiences and practices.
This year's tracks include:
- Implications for Faculty and Faculty Support
- Implications for Learner Satisfaction and Support
- Learning Effectiveness and Outcomes
- Institutional Mainstreaming
- Enhancing Access and Inclusion
Special Note: Those who register before October 17, 2003 will
receive the discounted registration conference fee of $350. Regular
price $395.
SUBMIT ONLINE AT: http://www.aln.ucf.edu
OR CALL 1-866-232-5834
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4.2 Seminar on 'Dangerous' and 'deceitful': learner identities in
cyberspace Thursday 8 May, 3.30 - 5.00pm (light refreshments from
3.15pm) Higher and Community Education Meeting Room M2,
Paterson's Land, University of Edinburgh
Presented by Siān Bayne, Department of Media, Culture and
Communication at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh.
How do students experience their identities as online learners?
How do such identities relate to those they inhabit in embodied
'real life'? This talk weaves together theories of cyberspace
subjectivity with the stories of students and tutors in order to
explore the themes of mutability, deceit and metamorphosis in
identity construction online.
In particular, it will consider the common perspective emerging from
students' stories in which online modes of identity formation are
viewed negatively, as a dangerous deceit or deviance from the
'natural'. These perspectives will be compared with the narratives of
tutors for whom, surprisingly, the online space becomes a place in
which traditional hierarchies can be re-asserted, and conventionally
teacherly identities re-cast.
Siān Bayne is currently researching
students' experience of online learning and is co-editor of
'Education in Cyberspace' to be published by Routledge Falmer in
2004.
This event is organised as part of the HE seminar series organised
by Higher and Community Education. If you would like to attend
please fill in the registration form at:
http://www.tla.ed.ac.uk/events/HELearner.html (no fee). This is to
ensure that we have adequate catering and accommodation
booked.
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4.3 Netskills workshops
A number of staff development workshops in Scotland and
Newcastle which may be of interest: 7 May - Effective e-Learning
with VLEs, Inverness College (SUBSIDISED) 9 May - Effective
Course Development for VLEs, Netskills Newcastle Upon Tyne
(SUBSIDISED) 7 June - Enhancing Your Web Pages, Strathclyde
University 18 June - Web Accessibility: Design-for-all
FULL MONTY EVENT IN NEWCASTLE, 1-4 July:
Netskills have scheduled the following 4 days of workshops in
Newcastle:
1 July Web Pages from Scratch
2 July Enhancing Your Web Pages
3 July Web Accessibillity: Design-for-all
4 July Databases on the Web
Any of the one-day sessions can be attended individually, or you
can do the whole event as a four-day workshop. Discounted prices
are available for those attending more than one day.
For descriptions of these workshops as well as a booking form,
please
go to http://www.netskills.ac.uk/workshops/forthcoming.html
Please note that all of these workshops (apart from the subsidised
VLE workshops) will count towards the Netskills/BTEC Professional
Development Certificate in Web Development. More information on
this accreditation scheme can be found at
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/accreditation/
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4.4 Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) - Supporting
Regeneration 3 June 2003 (09.15 am - 4.30 pm) Manchester, UK
http://www.ncc.co.uk/ncc/expert_panels/event_details.cfm?code=ic
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The first UK Conference on using Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) to achieve regeneration objectives.
When used appropriately, ICT can enhance renewal and
regeneration projects, improving quality of life, communications and
access, whilst enabling individuals and reinforcing community
initiatives. This essential one day conference examines how and
where ICT has been used to deliver benefit in regeneration projects.
Our speakers have direct experience of implementing ICT solutions
in this sector and will share their experiences of how best to
approach the use of ICT, and what to avoid. In particular the
programme will address:
Community development and participation through ICT
The place of ICT in housing re-development and in skill acquisition
The impact on regeneration of centre based ICT initiatives, for
example UK Online Relationships with the private sector:
supporters or sharks? Opportunities presented by DiTV and TV
over PCs The conference will be heavily case study based, with
each speaker addressing the question: "Can ICT support
regeneration?" Cases described will vary from multi-million pound
capital investment through to low cost community work. There will
be three alternative workshops
in the afternoon focusing on:
ICT and Economic development
ICT in Community development
Alternative engagement channels
The Conference is supported by Regeneration and Renewal
Magazine and by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
This Conference is your unique opportunity to discover the latest
best practice advice on use of ICT in regeneration. You will walk
away with a powerful insight in how to exploit ICT, that you can
apply to your own projects.
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4.5 Joint UCISA-JISC Managers Forum on Portals
The Oxford Hotel, Oxford
Monday 16 June 2003
Booking deadline: Friday 30 May
Many institutions have implemented, are implementing or are
considering implementing Portals. With a range of technologies
available to assist, and considerable experience in the sector, this
seminar aims to share some insights of those who have already
trodden the portal path. The future of portals, selecting a portal
infrastructure and lessons learnt through implementation all feature
in the programme. The themed lunch sessions will provide you with
the opportunity to discuss technologies and experiences with
vendors and colleagues.
For further information and the booking form please go to:
www.ucisa.ac.uk/events/2003/forum/forum-1-intro.htm
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4.6 Joint UCISA-JISC-SCONUL Managers Forum:
HE IT in the national context
Tuesday 17 June 2003
The Oxford Hotel, Oxford
Booking deadline: Friday 30 May
The Government's White Paper on The Future of Higher Education
is likely to spawn a number of new initiatives. However, there are
already a number of initiatives underway, relating to student
support and the need to achieve economies through
standardisation. This Forum is intended to update Directors of
Computing and Information Services and Heads of MIS
departments on these initiatives and to give an insight into the
ways HEFCE expects the IS provision within higher and further
education institutions to support the developments outlined in the
White Paper.
Please go to
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/events/index_html
for further information and the booking form.
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4.7 The Shock of the Old 3: Designing and Developing for the
Disciplines
University of Oxford, Said Business School, Oxford
24 July 2003
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock/
The Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University Computing
Services is pleased to announce our third annual one-day
conference on educational technologies. Shock 3 will explore
issues involved in creating materials and tools for disciplinary,
cross-disciplinary, and/or generic use.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Grainne Conole
Research and Graduate School of Education, University of
Southampton
Professor William Dutton
Director, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University
Registration is now open. Please visit the website for more
information, a list of talks, and the booking form.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock/
Refreshments and lunch are included in the price: £60 academic;
£150 commercial; (members of Oxford University should enquire
about a discount).
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4.8 EISTA '03
International Conference on Education and Information Systems:
Technologies and Applications
Jointly with International Conference on
Computer, Communication and Control Technologies: CCCT
31 July to 2 August, 2003 Orlando, Florida, USA
http://www.confinf.org/eista03
CALL FOR PAPERS
EISTA '03 Organizing Committee invites authors to submit their
original and unpublished works, innovations, ideas based on
analogical thinking, problems that require solutions, position
papers, case studies, etc., in the fields of Education/Training and
Information/Communication Technologies (ICT). ICT researchers are
invited to present their research results. Practitioners and
consultants are invited to present case study papers and innovative
solutions. Corporations are invited to present education/training
information systems and software based solutions. Teachers and
University professors are invited to present case studies,
information systems developed for specific purpose, and innovative
ideas and designs. Educational scientist and technologists are
invited to present research or position papers on the impact and
the future possibilities of ICT in educational systems and training
processes and methodologies. Manager of educational
organizations and training consultants are invited to present
problems that might be solved by means of ICT, or solutions that
might be improved by different approaches and design in ICT.
All are invited to organize panel or invited sessions. Panel sessions
with panelists coming from both: ICT researcher/practitioners and
teachers/professors.
Submitted papers must describe work not previously published.
They must not be submitted concurrently to another conference
with refereed proceedings.
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5. Other news
5.1 Learning and Teaching Portal Scenario
Polite request for your input to enable effective design interfaces to
be developed.
LTSN and JISC are currently funding a joint project to produce a set
of services for HE and FE learning and teaching communities. This
is a collaborative project working in particular with ILTHE, BECTA
and HESDA. Services planned include: · A funding opportunities
database detailing all opportunities related to teaching and
learning· An agency mapping database that will enable users to
discover information about learning and teaching agencies UK
wide. A discussion forum thatwill hosting both national and
international virtual events. The knowledge built through these
developed discussions will be synthesised and become resources
for future use. · A cross searching facility enabling users to
discover resources for learning and teaching across a range of data
bases including JISC, LTSN and other partner agency's sites.
We are currently in the process of developing the funding
opportunities and agency mapping database and are seeking input
from the community on how you might use this service. We are
therefore inviting you to contribute scenarios of how they might use
such a resource. Examples of each follow, but style is immaterial:
"George is a learning technologist working in a medium-sized
university on a short-term contract. He has been developing an
interactive CD to enhance biology field trips within his institution.
He has completed the majority of the work but has been asked to
add further features to the resource and requires funding for a
further six months to complete the tasks. He goes to the web and
finds the funding opportunities service. He needs to find the
following information; a body providing funding for his discipline and
sector, who would have to sign off the bid, how many bids are
available per institution and how he applies for the funding."
"I have just come back from a meeting with some Scottish
colleagues and they might just as well have been talking in Gaelic.
As a Senior Manager in an FEI, I did not like to show my ignorance
and ask what every agency acronym meant, but now I will have to
quickly find out. But the Scottish system is so different from the
English one and I need to make sense of not only what these
agencies do but also if there is any structural relationship between
them. It would be handy knowing whom to contact about their
widening participation agenda too."
If you have a scenario you can offer, please could you send it to
[log in to unmask]
Thank you for your assistance - the Learning and Teaching Portal
Project Jill Armstrong L&T Portal Project Director
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5.2 Synthesis Study of the International Digital Library Programme
The JISC wishes to commission a synthesis and analysis of the
JISC and National Science Foundation (NSF) International Digital
Library Initiative Projects (DLI). The study should mainly be
concerned with the UK project activity.
The overall intention of the study is to provide information on the
major findings and benefits derived from the projects including an
assessment of their achievements against the projects and
programmes original objectives.
The contract will run from the beginning of July 2003 - beginning
October 2003 (3 months) at a cost of up to £10,000 inclusive of VAT
and expenses.
The deadline for submission of full proposals is 12 noon on
Wednesday 28th May 2003.
Full details about the tender invitation can be found at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=funding_12_03
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5.3 Human-Computer Interaction Design and Visualization
Foundation Studies
The JISC wishes to commission two separate studies in the area of
human-computer interaction design and visualisation. The two
studies are: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design foundation
study; and a Visualization foundation study. Proposals can be
made for either one or both studies.
Both contracts will run from the beginning of July 2003 - to the end
of December 2003 (6 months). Up to £30,000 inclusive of VAT and
expenses is available for the Interface Design study. Up to £45,000
inclusive of VAT and expenses is available for the Visualization
study.
The deadline for submission of proposals is 12 noon on Friday 23rd
May 2003. Full details about the tender invitation can be found at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=funding_11_03
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5.4 JIME
Special Issue on Reusing Online Resources (April 2003)
ISSN:1365-893X
http://www-jime.open.ac.uk
Invitation to participate in a worldwide, online debate on Reusing
Online Resources for Learning and Teaching.
This special issue develops a range of critical issues highlighted in
a recent book on Reusing Online Resources: www.reusing.info
(Littlejohn, Kogan Page, 2003). Invited commentaries from a
collection of international, renowned experts have been sourced,
each one critiquing a chapter and seeding the debate with key
issues for authors and others to engage with.
Together with reprinted sections from the book, we offer this
resource to elicit further contributions from the global community.
The ALT community are welcome to browse the site, and post
insights from their own work to the forum to move the debate
forward: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk.
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5.5 BUFVC news
The British Universities Film & Video Council News Online
can be found at: http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/news/
News Items:
* The Grierson Awards 2003 Closing Date for Entries Announced
* OXDOX - First Oxford Documentary Film Festival
* Visconti Study Day
* FOCAL Events
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5.6 New Perspectives for Learning
http://www.pjb.co.uk/npl/index.htm
The latest edition of the occasional newsletter "New
Perspectives for Learning" covers "e-learning Research
Issues" and describes European Union-funded Research on
Education and Training.
Past editions of the newsletters and the Briefing Papers can also be
accessed at http://www.pjb.co.uk/npl/index.htm
Please do pass this information onto your colleagues who are
invited to join our mailing list by sending an email to
[log in to unmask] with their full contact details.
This activity is being carried out by pjb Associates with funding from
the European Commission's DG for Research and is aimed at
policy and decision makers. Contact Peter Bates at [log in to unmask]
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5.7 MyEducationUSA
http://www.MyEducationUSA.com
MyEducationUSA.com provides insights, news and product
offerings unique to the education industry. This
month it focuses on e-learning, knowledge management
and corporate university initiatives.
To participate in chats and message fora, click on the links near
the bottom of the menu.
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5.8 LTSN-ICS Newsletter
The April issue is now available at
http://www.ics.ltsn.ac.uk/news/news.html
and contains articles on:
a.. Benefits of higher education reach far beyond the job market.
b.. id21 Launches 'Insights Education' - focusing on education. c..
New Publication from HEFCE. d.. Employability Perspectives. e..
Higher Education Staff Development Agency Briefing Papers. f..
Journal of Digital Information announces A SPECIAL ISSUE on
E-education: Design and Evaluation for Teaching and Learning. g..
The European Research Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics.
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5.9 New JISCMAIL lists
We are pleased to announce a suite of new JISC mailing lists that
have been set up by the Economic and Social Data Service
(ESDS). The Economic and Social Data Service is a new UK
national data service that brings together four centres of expertise
in data creation, preservation and use, based at the Universities of
Essex and Manchester: UK Data Archive; Institute for Social and
Economic Research; Manchester Information and Associated
Services; Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research.
These centres are working collaboratively to provide preservation,
dissemination, user support and training for an extensive range of
key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative,
spanning many disciplines and themes. Economic and Social
Data Service web site: www.esds.ac.uk
* A news list, esds-news, has been set up to inform users of
forthcoming events, new data releases and new developments
across ESDS.
ESDS comprises a number of specialist data services that offer
provide value-added data and documentation products and
enhanced support for the secondary use of data across the
research, learning and teaching communities. Each service has
established its own discussion list:
* esds-govsurveys - run by ESDS Government
(www.esds.ac.uk/government) at CCSR for large-scale government
data;
* esds-international - run by ESDS International
(www.esds.ac.uk/international) at MIMAS for key international
macro and micro data series and surveys; * esds-longitudinal - run
by ESDS Longitudinal (www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal) at the UKDA
for the major UK-based panel and cohort studies; * esds-qualidata -
run by ESDS Qualidata (www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata) for key UK
qualitative data sources.
The aims of these lists are:
* to disseminate information to users of the ESDS including details
of new releases, updates, courses, workshops and events; * to act
as a moderated discussion list of users; * as a source of user
feedback, i.e. to keep the ESDS team informed of your data needs
and thoughts on service development plans.
If you would like to join any of these lists, please email
[log in to unmask] with the following message:
subscribe esds-news <name>
subscribe esds-govsurveys <name>
subscribe esds-longitudinal <name>
subscribe esds-international <name>
subscribe esds-qualidata <name> (available from 22 April 2003)
where <name> is your full name.
If you have any problems subscribing to/leaving the list, please do
not hesitate to contact the ESDS Helpdesk at [log in to unmask]
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5.10 The 2003 Computer-assisted Assessment (CAA) survey
follows up on and extends the 1999 National CAA Survey that was
conducted by the CAA Centre. The results will be fed into a JISC-
funded assessment project (TOIA) and will appear in publications
including the proceedings of the 7th International CAA Conference.
We are interested in the views of both users and non-users of CAA.
Therefore, even if you have no direct experience of CAA, we would
still greatly value your opinions. We will enter the names from all
completed questionnaires submitted by the 16th of May 2003 in a
draw for two £25 Book Tokens.
This survey is hosted by Questionmark Computing Ltd. The raw
data you provide will not be used by Questionmark or the survey
team to contact respondents (except to contact you in the event of
your winning a prize). It will be stored securely and deleted as soon
as reasonably possible in accordance with the Data Protection Act
(1995). You will probably need to allocate at least 30 minutes to
complete it. To participate in the 2003 survey, please go to
http://www.questionmark.com/links/CAA2003.htm
Thank you for your time.
Bill Warburton MA(Ed)
CAA Officer, University of Southampton
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The digest returns on 14 May.
All notices, jobs, news to [log in to unmask] me by 13 May,
please.
Best wishes
Rhonda
Association for Learning Technology
Oxford Brookes University
Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1865 484125 Fax: +44 (0)1865 484165
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.alt.ac.uk
Registered Charity Number 1063519
ALT-C 2003, 8-10 September 2003, Sheffield, UK.
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