Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news digest 147, 8 February 2008
For great events, vacancies, invitations to tender, and news, please
read on...
This digest was compiled by Nana Asante and edited for the time being by
Seb Schmoller
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1. Association news
2. Association events
3. News
4. Calls for papers
5. Other events
6. Invitations to tender
7. Vacancies
8. Courses
1. Association news
1.1. Staffing. Nana Asante who has been proving agency cover with ALT
since last Autumn has a new job with Oxford County Council and will be
leaving at the end of January. She's done a great job with the Digest,
and we wish her luck. Meanwhile we welcome Aysha Rashid who has joined
us to provide administration support partly on the Digest and partly on
the 2008 ALT Conference.
1.2. Director of Development. ALT will shortly be readvertising the post
of Director of Development, and this will be the subject of a separate
announcement.
1.3. Learning Technologist of the Year Award 2008. The call for
applications for the 2008 award will be issued during early March, with
a closing date in early May. The judging panel, chaired by Professor
Stephen Heppell, will be Dr Bob Banks, Tribal Group, and ALT Research
Committee; Margaret Bennett, Director of Communications and Partnerships
at QIA; Steve Ryan, Vice Chair of ALT, and Director of the Centre for
Learning Technology at LSE; Angela Sanders, NIACE Development Officer;
Hannah Whaley, Learning Technologist at the University of Dundee, and
joint winner of the 2007 award.
1.4. The full text transcript of Michelle Selinger's keynote speech at
ALT-C 2007 - "You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps" - is now
on-line at http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/.
1.5. Second call for papers for a special issue of ALT-J, Research in
Learning Technology - LEARNING AND TEACHING IN IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL WORLDS
Full details of how to submit can be found at:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/callforpapers_altj_ivw.html.
Important dates:
- Until 22 February 2008: Submission of abstracts and formal/informal
response from Special Issue Editors.
- Submission of full papers: 31st March 2008.
2. Association events
2.1. Second call for papers and abstracts for ALT-C 2008: Rethinking
the digital divide
9-11 September 2008, Leeds, UK
Submissions deadline: 29 February 2008
Keynote speakers:
* David Cavallo, Chief Learning Architect for One Laptop per Child, and
Head of the Future of Learning Research Group at MIT Media Lab;
* Dr Itiel Dror, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience at the
University of Southampton;
* Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute,
Sweden, and Director of the Gapminder Foundation.
Proposals should address up to three of the conference dimensions:
global or local; institutional or individual; pedagogy or technology;
access or exclusion; open or proprietary; private or public; for the
learner or by the learner.
For more detail on these, see:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/papers.html
The online submission system for ALT-C 2008 is now open at:
https://alt.conference-services.net/.
Prior to submitting please read the Guidelines for Research Papers and
for Abstracts - http://www.alt.ac.uk/guidelines_papers.html - and
download the Research Paper
Template if you intend to to submit a research paper.
*Important note*
Some projects or teams will have more to report in September 2008 than
they can summarise in an abstract written in February 2008. To take
account of this, the Co-Chairs of the Conference Committee emphasise
that: "in judging proposals, ALT Reviewers will take an understanding
attitude regarding proposals referring to or reporting on work taking
place between now and the date of the conference".
Key dates:
Submissions opened 14 December 2007
Submissions close 29 February 2008
Presenters' registration deadline: 6 June 2008
Early bird registration deadline: 30 June 2008
Registrations close: 15 August 2008
For sponsorship and exhibition opportunities got to:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/sponsor_information.html or contact Hayley
Willis, Events Administrator: [log in to unmask]
2.2. A free introductory workshop to ALT's Certified Membership scheme
(CMALT) Thursday 28 February 2008, 1200 - 1500, The London Knowledge
Lab, Institute of Education, London. CMALT is a simple, peer-based
accreditation scheme for learning technologists and for people with
learning technology as an important part of their role. This free
workshop is aimed at ALT members and non-members, wherever they are
employed, who are thinking about doing CMALT and want to find out more,
or who have made a start on their application and want support.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=295
2.3. The Lab Group Open Day
20 February 2008, 10.45 – 16.15
Oracle’s City of London Building
The Lab Group is an Association for Learning Technology-supported
collaboration between labs which undertake research and development in
learning mediated by technology. This second Lab Group Open Day is
generously sponsored by JISC, with facilities on the day provided by
Oracle. The Open Day will:
* enable around a dozen member labs to showcase some of their work,
discuss the concepts that lie behind it, answer questions about it, and
get feedback on it from other labs;
* give participants from policy-making and funding bodies to keep
abreast of developments, and improve their understanding of what is
going on in the development and research community.
There is no charge for attendance, and you can book, and access the
programme from http://www.alt.ac.uk/. Booking deadline 11/2/2008.
2.4. Second Life in real life: education beyond the hype. 17 April 2008,
National College for School Leadership (NCSL), Nottingham, led by Dr
Steven Warburton, King's College, London. The aim of this workshop is to
introduce participants to immersive 3D environments from a practical
perspective and to stimulate critical inquiry into the possibilities
that massive multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) offer learning and
teaching practice. For further information and to book a place to
attend, please visit:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/events.php .
2.5. Bidding and winning: the secrets of successful learning technology
project bids (due to popular demand). Thursday, 29 May 2008. National
College for School Leadership (NCSL), Nottingham. Presenters: Jeff
Haywood, Vice Principal Knowledge Management, Chief Information Officer
& Librarian at University of Edinburgh; Seb Schmoller, Chief Executive
at ALT; and Mark Stiles, Head of Learning Development & Innovation at
Staffordshire University. Project bids are time-consuming and should not
be undertaken lightly; this workshop will give tips on how to avoid
wasted effort and dashed hopes. Three experienced learning technology
project managers, who have run projects with funds from the JISC and
other sources, and who have judged bids written by others, will share
their perspectives on writing convincing bids for funds.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=296
Booking deadline: Thursday, 15 May 2008
Costs: £150 members, £250 for non-members
3. News
3.1. Loughborough University's WebPA project
http://webpaproject.lboro.ac.uk/index.php?section=1 and ALT Sponsoring
Member Wimba http://www.wimba.com/ are finalists in the IMS Global
Learning Consortium's 2008 Learning Impact Awards.
http://imsglobal.org/pressreleases/pr080207.html
3.2. *Extension Of Deadline*
Deadline for submission of the EUNIS Dørup E-learning Award extended to
*10 February 2008*.
http://eunis.dk/?page_id=32
3.3. Futurelab’s Enquiring Minds programme publish practical Guide
http://www.enquiringminds.org.uk
3.4. Futurelab launches consultation tool associated with their Beyond
Current Horizons programme - 'What are education's greatest challenges
for the future?'
http://www.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk
3.5. Technology Strategy Board's Latest Competition for Collaborative
Research and Development Investment
http://www.technologyprogramme.org.uk/default.cfm
3.6. From May 2008 the Higher Education Funding Council will have a new
"three directorate" structure, with transition to it starting now, as
shown on this 2 page 170 kB PDF:
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/aboutus/people/structure/who.pdf. John Selby will
become the Director for Education and Participation; Rama
Thirunamachandran will become Director for Research, Innovation, and
Skills; and Steve Egan will remain as Deputy Chief Executive and
Director for Finance and Corporate Resources.
3.7. Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite, by Charles W. Bailey,
Jr., is "designed to give the reader a very quick introduction to key
aspects of institutional repositories and to foster further exploration
of this topic though liberal use of relevant references to online
documents and links to pertinent websites."
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/irtoutsuite.pdf [200 kB PDF].
3.8. HEFCE announces £2.4 billion in capital funding
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/hefce/2008/
3.9. The Secretary of State's 18 January grant letter for 2008-09 is on
the HEFCE web site, with proposed allocations for 2009-10 and 2010-11.
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/hefce/2008/grant/letter.htm
3.10. Sloan-C View - Perspectives in Quality Online Education
Volume 7 Issue 2 - February 2008 now published
http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/view/v7n2/viewv7n2.htm
3.11. February e-bulletin - Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics
and Area Studies now available
http://www.llas.ac.uk/e-bulletin.aspx
4. Calls for papers
4.1. 12th International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference Research
into e-Assessment. 8 - 9 July 2008, Burleigh Court International
Conference Centre, Loughborough University. Deadline for early bird
delegate reduced rate: 30 May 2008. Deadline for submissions: 29
February 2008. http://www.caaconference.com/
4.2. Educational Technology Users' Conference
22 - 23 May 2008, Dundalk, Ireland
Deadline for submissions: 6 March 2008
http://ilta.learnonline.ie/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=415#p1329
5. Other events
5.1. JISC e-Business Book Launch: "Managing Post- Secondary Education in
an e-world - What lessons can universities and colleges learn from
e-business?"
14 February 2008, 6.00pm, Gladstone Library, One Whitehall Place, London
http://survey.jisc.ac.uk/booklaunch/
5.2. eLearning Alliance Workshop: ‘Alternative eLearning Tools : An
introduction to Crazy Talk, iClone and Raptivity’
20th February 2008, King James Centre, Riverview Business Park, Perth
http://www.elearningalliance.org/content.asp?ArticleCode=1636
5.3. eLearning Alliance Workshop: Introducing Moodle - An Open Source
Learning Management System
4 March 2008, Express By Holiday Inn Inverness, Stoneyfield, Inverness
http://www.elearningalliance.org
5.4. SWAP Events
*Communication through comic strip (An e-learning event)
13 March 2008, Nottingham Trent University
http://www.swap.ac.uk/events/workshop.asp?ref=1761
*TechTrain: Inspirational ideas for using technology in teaching
1 – 2 April 2008, University of Birmingham
http://www.swap.ac.uk/events/workshop.asp?ref=1707
5.5. Massively Multi Learner Workshop
18 March 2008, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/events/displayevent.php?id=180
5.6. JISC, BL and DPC workshop - What to preserve? Significant
Properties of Digital Objects
7 April 2008, British Library Conference Centre
Closing date for registrations: 20 March 2008
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/events/080407workshop.html
5.7. Innovate, the Journal of Online Education, and the Focus On
Education Foundation present Innovation 2008: The Real and The Ideal
14 - 15 April 2008, Breckenridge, Colorado
http://www.education-2008.org/
5.8. Centre fo Inter-Professional e-Learning Annual Conference: 'Solving
the Puzzle?'
24 April 2008, 9:30am - 4:00pm, Conventry University, Technocentre
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/cipel08
5.9. TAPE workshop on the curation and preservation of audiovisual
collections
12th - 16th May 2008, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/news/tape.html
5.10. JISC/CNI 2008 - 7th International Meeting - 10-11 July 2008 in
Belfast. Deadline for Early Bird Registration - 12 May 2008. Keynote
speakers include:
* Diana G. Oblinger, President and CEO, Educause
* Sir David Melville, Chair of the UK Committee of Inquiry into
the Student Experience
* Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, CNI
* Malcolm Read, Executive Secretary, JISC
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2008/
6. Invitations to tender
6.1. Short online e-facilitation course: call for author
ALT sponsoring member the Centre for Excellence in Leadership
(http://www.centreforexcellence.org.uk/) is developing a short
e-facilitation course for its own facilitators. Design length is 5 -10
hours so that it can be completed within one week. The course will be
delivered on-line, and will not be cohort-based, so simulations of some
on-line activities will be required. You will require a good knowledge
of e-facilitation and processes and have experience of writing both text
and interactive exercises for screen-based delivery. Knowledge of VLE
features (preferably of Moodle) is essential and experience of
facilitating on-line is an advantage. To express an interest contact Sid
Verber on [log in to unmask] To review the
specification for the course see:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/CEL_efacilitation_proposal.pdf [26 kB PDF].
6.2. JISC ITT: Synthesis, design and production of publications for the
JISC e-Learning Programme
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) invites proposals for the
following:
TASK A - the synthesis of project outcomes from relevant activities and
programmes within the JISC e-Learning Programme which will include
synthesising reports and documentation from several projects, writing
supplementary material, liaising with project managers, practitioners
and institutions who participated in the projects as well as liaising
with the supplier working on Task B. The main deliverable will be the
synthesis of materials for the three publications to be delivered by
July 2008 and March 2009. It is expected that this will require 80-100
days over the period April 2008 to March 2009. Funding of up to £30,000
is available for this work.
TASK B - the design and production through to print of the following
publications building on the style of the ‘Effective Practice’ guides
and reflecting the JISC visual identity guidelines:
* an effective practice guide to e-portfolios;
* an overview of the Design for Learning Programme;
* a rewrite of the current JISC Effective Practice with
e-Learning (2004) guide.
It is estimated that TASK B will require 100 – 120 days’ work over the
period April 2008 to March 2009 and funding of up to £60,000 is
available for this work. Funding for both activities will be
commensurate with the effort proposed in the tenders. The total cost
should include all expenses associated with the work, i.e. VAT, travel
and subsistence etc.
Deadline for proposals: 12:00 noon on 25 February 2008.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2008/02/synthdesprod
6.3. JISC ITT: Publisher Access Management Support Project
The JISC wishes to invite tenders for the design, development and
delivery of a programme of technical support and associated technical
solutions aimed at smaller publishers seeking to join the UK Access
Management Federation. This Invitation To Tender is for bidders who are
interested in providing such support, NOT publishers seeking deployment
support. Funding of up to £105,000 (including VAT, travel and
subsistence) is available for the project. It is expected that the
project will be undertaken between 10th March - 31st July 2008.
Deadline for proposals: 12:00 noon on 29 February 2008.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2008/02/publisheramsupport.aspx
6.4. JISC ITT: Landscape Study of Student Lifecycle Relationship Management
JISC invites proposals to undertake a landscape study to investigate the
different strands of activities, approaches and use of ICT systems that
support student recruitment, retention and on-going engagement whilst
within institutions and throughout subsequent alumni interactions. This
study will explore both UK further (FE) and higher education (HE) sector
and international experiences in this area, define the stakeholder
community and determine their key concerns. The main deliverables from
this study will be:
i. A report describing the current state of student relationship
management policies and activities, including an appraisal of how ICT is
being used to support processes, at each stage of the student lifecycle;
ii. Source material and stakeholder analysis for the development of
comprehensive, targeted advice and guidance to the sector;
iii. Recommendations to help focus future JISC activities in this area.
Funding of up to £50,000 including VAT and all related travel and
subsistence expenses is available for this project.
Deadline for proposals: 12.00 noon on 5 March 2008.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2008/02/lifecyclerelationship.aspx
6.5. Eduserv Research Grants
Eduserv Foundation 2008 has £300,000 available for this years grants
call and invites bids for research project funding in these or closely
related areas of e-learning and computing:-
* online identity
* the open social graph
* always-on Internet access and mobile computing.
Deadline for proposals: 5.00pm on 14th March 2008.
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/grants/0708
7. Vacancies
7.1. University of Hertfordshire
Business School
Educational Technologist
Salary: £23,000 - £27,400 per annum
Ref: BS8333
Closing date: 14 February 2008
http://www.herts.ac.uk/jobs
7.2. The Open University
Institute of Educational Technology (IET) Based in Milton Keynes
Research Assistant
Salary: £25,134 - £26,666
Temporary contract until December 2009
Ref: 4345
Closing date: 26 February 2008
http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment
7.3. Glasgow Caledonian University
Caledonian Academy
Reader in Education
Salary: £41,545 - £48,161 per annum
Full time, Permanent
Ref: AT19358
Closing date: 21 March 2008
http://www.caledonian.ac.uk/jobs/
7.4. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research (CLEAR)
Professor / Associate Professor in the Centre for Learning
Salary: Monthly salary ranges for Professorship: from HK$73,335 -
HK$98,465; for Associate Professorship: from HK$61,095 - HK$70,295
Ref: 08/015(737)/2
Closing date: 31 March 2008
http://perntc.per.cuhk.edu.hk//personnel/jobvacancy.asp?id=08/015(737)/2
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8. Courses
8.1. University of Oxford
Effective Online Tutoring course - 12 May 2008, 7-week online course
http://cpd.conted.ox.ac.uk/personaldev/courses/effective_online_tutoring.asp
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Seb Schmoller
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