Dear all,

Firstly apologies for cross-posting.

** 3 days remaining before the booking deadline for ALT-C 2004. **

If you wish to attend, and haven't booked your place, there is still
time left.  Please visit our website and register your booking using
our online booking form.  The website address is:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2004/registering.html

The deadline for conference bookings is the 21st August 2004
(midnight GMT).

Payment can be made either through Purchase order or Credit Card.
As
there isn't much time left, you may to prefer to pay by Credit Card to
ensure that a place is reserved for you at this 11th International
Conference.

To tantalise you even further to attend, please read on for more
information about ALT-C 2004..................

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Paul Ramsden, Chief Executive of the Higher Education Academy, will
address delegates at the eleventh international conference of the
Association for Learning Technology in Exeter on 16 September. The
Academy’s eTutor of the Year Award for 2004 will be presented on
Wednesday 15 September, and Prof Ramsden will launch the 2005
award on
Thursday.

The conference theme – ‘Blue skies and pragmatism: learning
technologies for the next decade’ – is a good reflection of the
tension surrounding learning technology innovations in tertiary
education, particularly where large investments are made. This will be
the first opportunity for many elearning academics to hear Paul
Ramsden’s perspective on learning technology since he took up his
position in June.

The programme for ALT-C 2004 is now online at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2004
Speakers will present a wide range of perspectives, some speculative,
others more grounded in current reality, and they will be accompanied
by over 100 parallel presentations from research papers to workshops.
The other three keynotes are:

Vijay Kumar, Assistant Provost for Educational Technology, and
Director of Academic Computing, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. 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. 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. 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/)

A further five international theme speakers 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).

The eTutor of the Year Award, promoted by the HE Academy and
sponsored by the THES, will be presented by Professor Stephen
Brown,
President of ALT on Wednesday 15 September at the conference
dinner,
and there will be prizes for the best research papers. 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.

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.

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The ALT Team hope you can attend and look forward to welcoming
you at
Exeter.

Kind regards

Marion O'Dea
Operations Manager - ALT
Telephone:  +44 (0) 1865 484125
Fax:  +44 (0) 1865 484165
URL:  http://www.alt.ac.uk/


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  ALT-C 2004, 14-16 September, Exeter, UK
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