Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news digest 121, 21 December 2006

Last of the year and plenty of calls to keep you busy over the festive
season!
(All your editor wants for Christmas is a fun way to dispose of junk
email. Someone must have invented a game that turns junk email into
targets...)

Please note that the ALT office will be closed for the Christmas holiday
from 5pm 21 December 2006 and will reopen on 2 January 2007.

In this issue:
1. Association news: Christmas donations; ALT-J; new Editors for ALT-N.
2. Association events: ALT-C 2007 call for papers.
3. News: Intellectual Property, Teaching Fellowships and Journal news.
4. Calls for papers: four calls this week.
5. Other events: five events.
6. Invitations to tender: JISC, EU, HE Academy.
7. Vacancies: one vacancy.

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1. Association news

1.1  A warm welcome to the following organisation which has recently
joined A.L.T.:
     King George V College  http://www.kgv.ac.uk/kgv2006/
  - and to all the individual members who have joined in the last
fortnight.

1.2 New editors for ALT-N, our quarterly newsletter.
We are delighted to announce two new Co-Editors for ALT-N, Morag Munro 
and Guin Glasfurd-Brown, who will take over from Susi Peacock in June 
2007. Congratulations to both!

1.3  The Association for Learning Technology Journal (ALT-J)
Last call for articles for issues 15.2 (July 07) and 15.3 (November 07)
of ALT-J. If you are keen to submit something that could potentially be
published before the RAE cut-off point, then you need to submit something
to us no later than end January 07. For authors guidelines please see:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/caltauth.asp

1.4 "Meet the Editors" podcast from the ASCILITE conference.
ASCILITE is our sister organisation from Australasia, and here is a link
to a podcast from the conference featuring, amongst others, Graínne
Conole, co-editor of the ALT Journal.
http://ascilite.edublogs.org/2006/12/13/meet-the-editors/

1.5  ALT and JISC infoNet - Christmas Charitable Donations
Thank to all who have donated to the fund  We will be sending money to
Oxfam for teacher training and teaching equipment. As one last donation
is expected shortly, we will tell you the final amount raised (and what
we spent it on) in January.

1.6  Recruiting in the new year?
Make sure your Human Resources Department emails details of all your
learning technology vacancies to [log in to unmask]
with the subject: "For the digest - vacancies".

2. Association events

2.1 ALT-C 2007: Beyond control
Learning technology for the social network generation
4-6 September 2007, Nottingham, UK
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007

Submissions opened on 8 December. Read the guidelines at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/guidelines_papers.html

Please remind colleagues of these key dates:
Research papers close: 14 February 2007
Other streams close: 28 February 2007
Presenters’ registration deadline: 8 June 2007
Earlybird registration deadline: 29 June 2007

2.2 Bidding and winning workshop
As the January workshop is already full, we have a waiting list for
another date - add your details here:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=228

3. News

3.1 UK Gowers Review of Intellectual Property:
Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/ybduve
Actual site: http://www.hm-
treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/independent_reviews_index.cfm
The JISC response to the Review:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2006/12/news_gowers.aspx

3.2 UK National Teaching Fellowship Awards 2007: now open for
applications.
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/NTFSindividual_application%20pack.htm

3.3 Journal banding survey
The Centre for the Study of Research Training & Impact (SORTI) at the
University of Newcastle is working on a ‘journal banding’ project. The
intent of the project is to assist educational researchers in preparing
submissions in the context of the assessment of research quality and
professional impact as part of the Research Quality Framework (RQF). 
Contribute your views at
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/forms/bandingsurvey

3.4 Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (JUTLP)
Volume 3, Issue 2 now available at: http://jutlp.uow.edu.au/
Submissions for the next general issue are open.

3.5 Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN)
Volume 10, Issue 4 can be found at
http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/index.asp
A limited number of print copies are available for subscriptions:
https://secured.sloanconsortium.org/JALN-orders/
For more information on Membership of Sloan-C go to
http://www.sloan-c.org

3.6  Epic thinking: issue 59, December 2006
ALT Sponsoring Member Epic plc's December Newsletter has just been
published, including a report from Online Educa, and an assessment of
Moodle.
http://www.epic.co.uk/content/news/dec_06/index.htm

4. Calls for papers

4.1 The Journal of Learning Design
Call for articles for Volume 2, Number 1; deadline: 1 March 2007.
http://www.jld.qut.edu.au

4.2 HERDSA 2007 Conference: Enhancing Higher Education, Theory and
Scholarship
8-11 July 2007, Adelaide, Australia
http://conference.herdsa.org.au/2007
Call for papers deadline: 23 March 2007

4.3  3rd Irish MoodleMoot 2007
Abstracts should be submitted via Moodle - enrol at
http://www.moodlemoot.ie/course/view.php?id=3
If this is not possible please contact [log in to unmask]
Closing date for abstracts: 19 January 2007

4.4 11th International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference:
Research into e-Assessment
10-11 July 2007, Loughborough University, UK
http://www.caaconference.com/

5. Other events

5.1 2007 BDRA Learning Futures Conference
9-10 January 2007, University of Leicester
http://www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance
email: [log in to unmask]

5.2  iLearning Forum Paris 2007
30-31 January 2007, "Palais des Congrès de Paris"
Preconference workshops for experts and beginners: 29 January.
http://www.ilearnforum.eu

5.3 The Changing Faces of Learning:
1-day conference on education and training
1 February 2007, Telford, Shropshire.
http://www.learninglab.org.uk

5.4 INTED 2007: International Technology, Education and Development
Conference
7-9 March 2007, Valencia, Spain.
http://www.iated.org
email: [log in to unmask]

5.5  4th Education in a Changing Environment Conference
12-14 September 2007, University of Salford, Greater Manchester.
http://www.ece.salford.ac.uk/

6. Invitations to tender

6.1  JISC ITT: Tender for a consultant/s to conduct a review of the
management of technology-rich, open plan learning and teaching spaces in
UK HE and FE as part of the JISC e-Learning Programme.
Tenders deadline: 12 noon 15 January 2007.
Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/ymgbhy
Actual site:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2006/12/funding_r
eview_learning_spaces.aspx

6.2 Higher Education Academy/JISC:
Call for Expressions of Interest in Phase 2 Benchmarking.
...invites expressions of interest from institutions providing higher
education to participate in Phase 2 of the Higher Education Academy/JISC
Benchmarking of e-Learning Exercise.
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/benchmarking.htm

6.3 EU Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013
The Lifelong Learning programme applies to all types and levels of
education and vocational education and training.
The main deadlines are:
- Erasmus University Charter - 28 February 2007;
- Jean Monnet programme - 15 March 2007;
- Comenius, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Grundtvig - 30 March 2007;
- Transversal Programme and Accompanying Measures - 30 April 2007.
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/newprog/index_en.html

7. Vacancies

7.1 Manchester Metropolitan University
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Learning Technologies
Salary: £25,083 - £38,647  Ref: JC/125
Closing date: 5 January 2007
http://www.jobs.mmu.ac.uk

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Regards
Rhonda

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