Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news digest 117, 31 October 2006
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1. Association news: Online Educa service, ALT-N
2. Association events: Bidding and winning workshop
3. News: Educause, JISC, LSC, HEFCE and more
4. Calls for papers: two this week
5. Other events: twelve events
6. Invitation to tender: one this week
7. Vacancies: four vacancies
8. Courses: two courses
1. Association news
1.1 Online Educa Conference, 29 November to 1 December
ALT will be exhibiting at the Online Educa Conference in Berlin this year
and is offering special service to our organisational members: we will
display your flyers on our exhibition stand and publish a brochure to be
given to all visitors to the stand, featuring a paragraph about your
organisation. Contact Teresa Prochazka by 3 November:
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1.2 A warm welcome to the following organisations which have recently
joined A.L.T.:
Coventry University http://www.coventry.ac.uk
University of Essex http://www.essex.ac.uk
HELP CETL http://www.help-cetl.ac.uk
Southampton Solent University http://www.solent.ac.uk/
- and to all the individual members who have joined in the last
fortnight.
1.3 ALT-N October issue now online
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk
A printed summary version will be posted to all members this week.
1.4 ALT-C 2006 archives
Audio files of the keynote and theme speakers are now online at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2006/keynotes.html
2. Association events
2.1 Bidding and winning: the secrets of successful learning technology
project bids
Wednesday 24 January 2007, 09:30 - 15:00
National College of School Leadership (NCSL), Nottingham
Places are limited so to avoid disappointment please register to attend
asap:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=228
2.2 ALT-C 2007: Beyond control
Learning technology for the social network generation
4-6 September 2007, Nottingham, UK
Conference co-chairs: Prof Mike Sharples and Sharon Waller
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007
Important deadlines:
Research papers close: 14 February 2007
Other streams close: 28 February 2007
Presenters’ registration deadline: 8 June 2007
Earlybird registration deadline: 29 June 2007
Registrations close: 10 August 2007
3. News
3.1 JISC news
3.1.1 New international model agreement for authors published
SURF and JISC model agreement to help authors make appropriate
arrangements with publishers for the publication of a journal article.
This “Licence to Publish” is the result of several years of international
consultation and aims to establish a balance of rights and interests in
the emerging scholarly communications environment.
http://www.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/authors/licence/
3.1.2 Open Access Conference: presentation files now available at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2006/09/event_oaconf_0906.aspx
3.1.3 A century of Parliament online: free to FE and HE institutions in
the UK
http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/catalogue/coll_19chcpp.aspx
3.1.4 TechWatch report on Voice over IP: what it is, why people want it,
and where it is going.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/techwatch
3.1.5 Search through the OpenDOAR for repository content
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2006/10/news_opendoar.aspx
3.2 Inside Higher Ed: "Drop Patent, Educause Urges Blackboard”
http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/10/27/educause
Minutes of the Educause meeting and the letter to Blackboard:
http://www.educause.edu/October82006/12077
3.3 LSC publishes statement of priorities
http://tinyurl.com/yfagnf
3.4 HEFCE news
3.4.1 Council Briefing Issue 66 October 2006
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/CBrief/2006/
3.4.2 UK-wide Space Management Group: phase two reports
http://www.smg.ac.uk/resources.html
3.4.3 2006 Teaching Quality Information data, including results from the
National Student Survey.
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/learning/nss/data/2006/
3.4.4 Twenty-two Centres for Knowledge Exchange (CKEs) funded under the
HEIF initiative.
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/reachout/heif/centres.asp
3.5 AJET 22(1) will be made free to the Internet on 11 Dec 2006. AJET
22(3) is now published (for member
access) at
http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet.html
3.6 HELIOS survey on relationship between e-learning and organisational
change at work.
Available in 5 languages at
http://www.eden-online.org/eden.php?menuId=7&contentId=512
3.7 Google mail to replace campus email?
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i09/09a03702.htm
4. Calls of papers
4.1 The Norwegian Networked University (NNU) conference
How to facilitate learning through a virtual community?
Bergen, Norway, March 13th – 14th, 2007.
We now invite contributions in the form of:
* Articles reporting on-going or concluded research, to be published in
the conference documentation, and presented as a lecture at the
conference.
* Shorter presentations of professional development activities, to be
published in the conference documentation.
All contributions must be sent as pdf-files (Adobe Acrobat) or .doc-files
(MS Word). Deadline: November 1st 2006. Contact: Ida M Knudsen
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http://www.nvu.no/konferanse.php
4.2 Open access collaboration between 6 online education journals
JALN, Asian Journal of Distance Education, Distances et savoirs, EURODL,
IRRODL and Open Praxis are calling for papers for a special issue to be
published jointly by the journals in 2008 on the influence of online
education on the “right to education,” as defined in the 1948 Universal
Declaration of Human Rights from the United Nations. Deadline for
submitting proposals (500 to 1000 words max): 31 January 2007.
http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/call_for_papers.asp
5. Other events
5.1 JISC Legal webcast on accessibility of e-learning materials
15 November 2006. Further details and a test page at
http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/Webcast
5.2 Henley Management College Virtual Tutor Course
15 November 2006
http://www.henleymc.ac.uk/vtc
5.3 DCC and LUCAS joint workshop on digital archival collections.
30 November to 1 December 2006, The Foresight Centre, Liverpool
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/archives-2006
5.4 Skills for Business one day workshops
Teaching Tools and On-Line Learning
November 2006 – January 2007, Sheffield College
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5.5 The Learning Lab Seminars
In collaboration with the Centre of Excellence in Learning & Teaching at
the University of Wolverhampton.
November - December 2006, Learning Lab, Telford, Shropshire
http://www.learninglab.org.uk
5.6 Innovate-Live webcasts on Open Source topics
Various dates in November - go to http://www.innovateonline.info
and register at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/PortalInnovate/
5.7 UCISA-SDG IT Training Skills Workshop
6 - 8 December 2006, University of Oxford
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/sdg/courses/
5.8 Discovery and Access: Standards and the Information Chain
7 December 2006, London
JISC seminar, co-sponsored by ALPSP, the Publishers Association and
CrossRef. No charge to attend.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/pals-2006
5.9 Personalisation of learning
8 December, 2006, Manchester Conference Centre
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/learningandteaching/SSELF2006BookingForm.pdf
5.10 Netskills Workshop: Project Management for the Education Sector
8 December 2006, The Edinburgh Training Centre
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/workshops
5.11 Introduction to ePortfolio with PebblePad
12 December 2006, Pebble Learning, Telford, Shropshire
http://www.pebblepad.co.uk/workshop.asp
5.12 UCISA Managers Forum: Managing 24/7 Support
13 December 2006, Radisson Edwardian Marlborough Hotel, London
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/events/2006/forum/extend/index_html
6. Invitations to tender
6.1 JISC Circular 05/06: Learner Experiences of e-Learning
…invites proposals from institutions for ‘Learner Experiences of e-
Learning‘ projects in order to develop further the community’s
understanding of how learners experience and participate in e-Learning.
Total funding of up to £720,000 is available for the areas of work.
Deadline: 12.00 noon on Monday 4 December 2006.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/circular0506_learner_experiences
7. Vacancies
7.1 Cumbria Institute of the Arts
e-learning Developer
Salary: £18,000
Full-time, fixed term until 31 December 2007
http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/index.php?module=article&view=257
Closing date: 3 November 2006
7.2 Canterbury Christ Church University
Head of Computing Services
Salary: circa £55,000
HCS1/CS/01
http://www.canterbury.ac.uk
For an informal discussion prior to interview, contact Dr Keith Gwilym,
Pro-Vice Chancellor,
Email: [log in to unmask]
Closing date: 3 November 2006
7.3 University College London
E-learning Advisor - UCL Faculty of Biomedical Sciences
Salary: £28,105 - £33,997 (inclusive of London Allowance)
Ref: ID42891
Closing date: 9 November 2006
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/is/vacancies
8. Courses
8.1 You Lead - an Alternative to Traditional Undergraduate Programmes.
ALT sponsoring member Epic plc announces a partnership with Ashcroft
International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University to offer an
innovative leadership programme.
http://www.epic.co.uk/content/news/press_releases/press_release_169.htm
8.2 Welsh Networking’s e-learning initiative
– an amazing low cost opportunity for members of the JANET community.
390 online Thomson NETg courses, many in the new virtual classroom
format, covering:
* Professional IT training (includes ITIL, Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle
Comptia);
* Desktop applications (such as ECDL Microsoft, Adobe Photoshop and
Dreamweaver);
* Business and professional skills (covering project management, time
management, leadership skills and more).
Also available is access to Safari online books for the above categories.
Go to
http://www.wnl.net/newsite/elearning/2006%20-
%202009%20Contract/Summary.htm
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Rhonda
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Rhonda Riachi, Director
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