ALT news digest 63, 5 May 2004
Lots of great events and news in this issue:
1. Welcome to new members
2. ALT events
3. Calls for papers
4. Other events
5. News
6. Invitations to tender
7. Courses
1. Welcome to new members
A warm welcome to the following company which has just joined ALT:
Nisai Education http://www.nisaieducation.com
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Deadline for next issue: Tuesday 18 May 2004
2. ALT events
2.1 Making online groupworking work
24 May 2004
Square Mile Training, Hillsborough, Sheffield
Presenter(s): Julia Duggleby and Joan Rudder, The Sheffield College
Cost: £60 for the half day, including lunch. Places will be limited.
Booking deadline: 10 May 2004
Topics to be covered:
* the benefits of groupworking for online learning.
* the potential and challenges of asynchronous and synchronous
communications tools.
* the role of the tutor in online groupworking; dealing with
challenges.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=143
2.2 e-Learning innovation strategy
A one-day workshop from ALT
26 May 2004
Oxford Brookes University
Presenter: George Roberts, Oxford Brookes University
Cost: £85 ALT members / £150 non-members.
Booking deadline: 12 May 2004
By the end of this session participants will have:
* set local/departmental decisions in a wider context of
institutional and national strategies.
* identified the principal operational issues that may arise as a
result of implementing an e-learning strategy.
* understood the main financial issues that underlie, influence and
shape the introduction of e-learning.
* considered the nature of demand and supply and the role played by
the marketplace in the allocation of learning.
* gained the information they need in order to build an argument in
respect of the introduction of e-learning.
Who should attend: department heads, course team leaders, managers
and administrators with responsibility for leading the development
and introduction of new approaches to learning and teaching.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=140
2.3 Starting on the right foot: getting precourse advice and
communications right
9 June 2004
The Source at Meadowhall, Sheffield
Presenters: Dave Pickersgill and Debby Prence, The Sheffield College
Cost: £60 for the half day, including lunch. Places will be limited.
Booking deadline: 26 May 2004
Participants will:
* consider how to match learners to courses.
* produce a checklist identifying key points in the
precourse/induction process.
* produce a checklist to help learners in their choices.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=144
2.4 Meeting the needs of online learners
30 June 2004
Square Mile Training, Hillsborough, Sheffield
Presenters: Phil Euesden, Rob Sczcerba, Julia Duggleby and Kieran
Briggs, The Sheffield College.
Cost: £60 for the half day, including lunch. Places will be limited.
Booking deadline: 16 May 2004
This workshop will allow participants to explore the best way to meet
the needs of individual online learners by providing the right sort
of online content, tutor support and learning activities. The day
will give the opportunity to look at the way in which to motivate
learners without sophisticated literacy or IT skills. There will also
be some input about evaluating content to assess its accessibility
and many practical elements of this course covering: using
conferencing, giving feedback using MSWord functions, and managing
information.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=145
2.5 Creating interactive activities using Hot Potatoes and Quia
13 July 2004
Square Mile Training, Hillsborough, Sheffield
Presenter(s): Jo Tomalin and Nick Jeans, The Sheffield College
Cost: £60 for the half day, including lunch. Places will be limited.
Booking deadline: 29 June 2004
'Hot Potatoes' is a simple program for creating interactive exercises
for learners. Quia is a web-based program to create web-based
interactive exercises (matching, ordering, quizzes, etc) of a
slightly different format.
Participants will
* become familiar with this easy-to-use software for activity
creation.
* consider the underpinning pedagogy for developing interactive
activities.
* develop or convert their own learner activities.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=148
2.6 ALT-C 2004: Blue skies & pragmatism
Exeter, Devon, UK
Tuesday 14 to Thursday 16 September 2004
Authors will receive notification of their submissions by mid-May.
Online registration will be available 21 May. If you need to register
before then, please contact [log in to unmask]
Join our low volume opt-in email list - from
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2004/ - through which ALT will notify you of
major changes to the site, and impending deadlines for submitting
papers and registering for the conference.
3. Calls for papers
3.1 HCI2004: Design for Life
The 18th British Human-Computer Interaction Group Annual Conference
Leeds Metropolitan University, 6-10 September 2004.
May 7th 2004 is the final deadline for Industry Day Presentations,
Short Papers, Posters, Laboratory & Organisational Overviews,
Interactive Experiences, Panels and the Doctoral Consortium.
http://www.hci2004.org/
3.2 Second International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems
(UCS2004)
Keio University Mita Campus, Tokyo, Japan
November 8-9, 2004
http://www.mkg.sfc.keio.ac.jp/UBI/ucs2004/
4. Other events
4.1 The threats and opportunities of offshore developments
eLearning Network Conference
May 14th 2004, 10.00am
SCI in Belgrave Square in London
http://www.elearningnetwork.org
4.2 SEEL Conference: Quality Policies for eLearning Regions and
Cities
17 & 18 May 2004
La Rochelle, France.
http://www.seelnet.org
4.3 New TechDis Workshop - Accessible Interactive JAVA Applications
Thursday 24 May, York
This workshop will be available free of charge to delegates based
within or linked to the UK higher or further education sector.
http://www.techdis.ac.uk/workshops
4.4 EdTech2004: The Fifth Annual Irish Educational Technology Users'
Conference,
Institute of Technology, Tralee, 3 - 4 June 2004.
http://www.ilta.net/EdTech2004
Tralee is just a short distance from Kerry Airport
(www.kerryairport.ie).
Registration fee: £130
4.5 eLearning Alliance: The Big Workshop 3
7 June 2004
http://www.elearningalliance.org/events/event_viewer.cfm?id=3D554
4.6 JISC consultation workshops
"Developing resource and support for HE students in FE"
11 June - Thistle Hotel, Cardiff
25 June - Thistle Hotel, Newcastle
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events
4.7 Institutional Repositories - PALS Conference
24 June 2004
Royal College of Obstetricians, London
Organised by The PALS group (JISC, ALPSP and The Publishers
Association)
http://www.palsgroup.org.uk/palsconference
4.8 Learning Lab Fourth Annual Conference & Exhibition
29th and 30th June 2004
Telford Campus, University of Wolverhampton
http://www.learninglab.org.uk
4.9 eLearning Network Members' Showcase
July 2nd 2004
All the presenters and exhibitors will be drawn from the ELN
Membership (ALT is a member of ELN). Would you like to be one of
them? At this stage we are just asking for expressions of interest
and once all these have arrived we will talk to the interested
parties to work out a programme for the day. Contact: Vaughan Waller,
Tel: 01992 634244.
http://www.elearningnetwork.org
4.10 Incubation3: online writing conference
12-14th July 2004
Nottingham Trent University
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/
4.11 SALT Interactive Technologies Conference
Arlington, Virginia, USA, August 18-20, 2004
http://www.salt.org/docs/program.pdf
5. News
5.1 TOIA (Technologies for Online Interoperable Assessment)
- has released the beta version of its web-based assessment
management system. This product has been under development for the
past 18 months by key members of the UK online assessment community,
world experts in question and test interoperability and a specialised
software development team.
Funded by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee as part of the
Exchange for Learning (X4L) Programme, and built by Excel-Soft India,
the TOIA system will be freely available to all UK further and higher
education institutions. The system allows teachers to create
questions and tests, to deliver them to students for automated
marking, and to monitor results. It can also be used for collecting
assignments which require manual marking and for delivering and
processing questionnaires. Go to: http:// www.toia.ac.uk
5.2 More new NLN materials now online
In response to requests from the sector for more subjects at Level 3,
History is the first of the new subjects to be aimed at AS/A2
students. More AS/A2 subjects will follow over the coming months. The
new materials released also increase the units available in Hair and
Beauty, covering topics at Level 2 in anatomy, perming and skin. Go
to: http://www.nln.ac.uk/materials
The website also provides a host of other resources to support tutors
in making the most of the NLN materials, including lists of the
learning objects now online, and a complete list of the Round 3
subjects currently in development. If you have any queries about
downloading or using the materials then please contact your local
JISC Regional Support Centre (RSC) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/rsc
5.3 DfES: Towards a Unified e-Learning Strategy - Consultation
feedback
430 formal responses were received, as well as feedback from the
three main consultation events about the strategy and a further 120
events where the Department was represented. The analysis of the
responses can be found at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/elearningstrategy/
5.4 Auricle weblog
At the end of January the Centre for the Development of New
Technologies In Learning at the University of Bath established
Auricle, a collaborative weblog that is authored by members of the e-
learning@Bath team but which is open to public view and can be
commented on by anyone interested in elearning. Auricle also
syndicates information from other e-learning sites.
Auricle is now approaching some 14,000 accesses and feedback has been
very positive. If ALT members find Auricle of interest they may wish
to disseminate the url:
http://www.bath.ac.uk/dacs/cdntl/pmachine/morriblog.php
There is also an RSS feed at
http://www.bath.ac.uk/dacs/cdntl/pmachine/auricle.xml
5.5 JISC Legal - a new name and website for JISC Legal Information
Service
JISC Legal have launched a new website, available at
http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk
The website has been reorganised to make navigation and searching
material easier for the user.
For all enquiries relating to JISC Legal, please now use the email
address
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5.6 Bright Sparks Awards
Bright Sparks is a response to the major challenges for e-learning
development recently laid out by the Department for Education and
Skills (DfES). The New Statesman, in association with BT and Consider
This, announced that it is now receiving nominations for Bright
Sparks, an awards scheme recognizing innovation in e-learning.
Nominations can be made by visiting the Bright Sparks website
http://www.newstatesman.com/brightsparks
- no later than 1 October 2004.
5.7 EUROPRIX Top Talent Award 04
Online Registration open now: http://www.toptalent.europrix.org/
5.8 Best practice in e-learning
How can interaction enhance learning? Skool.ie, a free access online
learning and service platform dedicated to Ireland’s secondary and
high school level students, demonstrates it with excellence:
http://www.skool.ie
6. Invitations to tender
Information about recent JISC Invitations to tender can be found at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/funding
6.1 JISC Consultation workshop report
The JISC invites tenders to provide a written report on the JISC
Consultation Workshop "Developing resources and support for HE
students in FE", to be held on 11 and 25 June 2004. The deadline for
proposals has been extended to: 12 noon on Monday 17 May 2004. The
full Invitation to Tender is available on the funding opportunities
section of the JISC web site at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=funding_workshoprep_0304
Details of the workshop programme are available on the web site at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=event_students_0604
6.2 JISC Invitation to Tender: Study of the implementation and use of
the Hairdressing-Training.com resource
Funding of up to £70,000 (including VAT and expenses) is available
for this study. Tenders should be submitted by 12 noon on Friday 28
May 2004. The work should commence on 1 August 2004 or as soon as
possible thereafter and a final report must be submitted by the end
of June 2006.
The full Invitation to Tender is available on the JISC web site at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=3Dfunding_hairdressing_study
7. Courses
7.1 INYOP - Interactive Narrative Course for Young Professionals
Course 1: "Interactive Films and Games", July 14-25, 2004, Czech
Republic.
Course 2: "Interactive Documentaries", September 1-12, 2004.
http://www.inyop.org
7.2 Professional Skills for Advisory Staff
20 - 23 July 2004, Westwood Conference Centre, Coventry
Cost: £645 for UCISA member institutions (£975 for non-members)
Booking deadline: Friday 2 July 2004
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/sdg/courses/psa-intro.htm
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Regards
Rhonda
Rhonda Riachi, Director
Association for Learning Technology
Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1865 484125 Fax: +44 (0)1865 484165
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