Dear Members
The following press release was sent out yesterday. The timetable is
now online at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2004/timetable/timetable.php
There will be more adjustments to the timetable to come (eg you will
be able to search the papers according to theme), so keep checking
the site each week.
Note the free memory stick offer below, sponsored by RM; a first for
ALT-C! We are also working on wireless network access across the
campus; more to follow on that.
Don't forget to book for the pre-and post conference workshops:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2004/pre_and_post.html
- and tell your colleagues they must register by 21 AUGUST.
Best wishes
Rhonda
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For immediate release
from the Association for Learning Technology
SUNNY OUTLOOK AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES FOR LEARNING TECHNOLOGY
‘Blue skies and pragmatism: learning technologies for the next
decade’ is the theme of the Association for Learning Technology’s
11th International Conference in Exeter, 14-16 September. The
programme for ALT-C 2004 is now online at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2004
This year’s international keynote and invited speakers will present a
wide range of perspectives, some optimistic, others realistic, and
they will be accompanied by over 100 parallel presentations from
research papers to workshops.
Vijay Kumar, Assistant Provost for Educational Technology, and
Director of Academic Computing, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, will open the conference on Tuesday morning. Vijay is a
member of the Advisory Group for MIT’s Open Courseware (OCW) project
and is the Principal Investigator of the Open Knowledge Initiative
(OKI), a collaborative effort to develop an Open-Source open
architecture for internet-based educational applications.
(http://web.mit.edu/vkumar/www/)
Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton,
and President of the British Computer Society, is the keynote for
Wednesday’s plenary session. Wendy was awarded a CBE in the Queen's
Birthday Honours list in June 2000, and became a Fellow of the Royal
Academy of Engineering (FREng) in the same year. Earlier this year
Wendy was appointed by the Prime Minister to the Council for Science
and Technology. (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~wh/)
Ron Oliver, Foundation Professor of Interactive Multimedia at Edith
Cowan University, Western Australia, will close the conference on
Thursday. He teaches and supervises in the School of Communications
and Multimedia, is Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the
Faculty of Communications Health and Science, and Director of the
Centre for Research in Information Technology and Communications.
(http://elrond.scam.ecu.edu.au/oliver/)
The conference will also benefit from the experience of five theme
speakers, who will chair special sessions on Thursday morning to pick
up on the key issues raised. They are Cathy Gunn (Vice President of
ASCILITE and Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Professional
Development, University of Auckland), Rob Koper (Director of Learning
Technology Research and Development at the Open University of the
Netherlands), Angela McFarlane (Professor of Education, Graduate
School of Education, University of Bristol), Sarah Porter (Programme
Director for e-learning at the Joint Information Systems Committee)
and Michelle Selinger (Education Manager at Cisco Systems).
Delegates will take away a 32MB memory stick containing all the
abstracts for the conference, sponsored by RM, and will be able to
surf the web at the Internet café sponsored by the JISC. The eTutor
of the Year Award, promoted by the HE Academy and sponsored by the
THES, will be presented on Wednesday 15 September at the conference
dinner, and there will be prizes for the best research papers.
Major sponsors for ALT-C 2004 are: DfES, EduServ, Exeter City
Council, the Higher Education Academy, Intel, JISC, LSC, Positive
Internet, RM, THES, UfI/Learndirect, and WebCT. Other sponsors
include KMS and QuestionMark Computing.
Notes to editors
For more information on ALT-C 2004, 14-16 September, contact
Hayley Willis: Tel: 01865 484126. Email: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2004
The Association for Learning Technology is a registered charity,
number 1063519.
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Rhonda Riachi, Director
Association for Learning Technology
Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford, OX3 0BP, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1865 484143 Fax: +44 (0)1865 484165
Mobile: 07736 064124
Email: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.alt.ac.uk/
Registered Charity number 1063519
ALT-C 2004, 14-16 September 2004, Exeter
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2004
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