Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news digest 166, issued 3 November 2008
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1. Association news
2. Association events – some with close deadlines
3. News
4. Calls for papers
5. Other events – some with close deadlines
6. Invitations to tender
7. Vacancies
8. Courses
1. Association news
1.1 Digest Submission: email address change
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1.2 ALT members discount: Ascilite 2008
ALT members are entitled to member rates for the Ascilite 2008
conference: 'Hello! Where are you in the landscape of educational
technology?' being hosted by the Institute of Teaching and Learning,
Deakin University, Melbourne Australia from 30 November to 3 December
2008. Early bird registration for the conference before or on 10
October 2008 at
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/melbourne08/register.htm
2. Association events
2.1 'Sitting on a gold mine' - improving provision and services for
learners by aggregating and using learner behaviour data
Friday, 12 December 2008.
JISC Offices, Brettenham House, London
Presenters: David Kay, Ken Chad and Mark van Harmelen from the TILE
project, plus others from the TILE project Reference Group.
Booking deadline: 28 November 2009
Cost: FREE
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=318
2.2 Bidding and winning: the secrets of successful learning technology
project bids (due to popular demand)
Thursday, 27 November 2008.
National College for School Leadership (NCSL), Nottingham.
Presenters: Jeff Haywood, Vice Principal Knowledge Management, Chief
Information Officer and Librarian at University of Edinburgh; Seb
Schmoller, Chief Executive of ALT;
Mark Stiles, Head of Learning Development and Innovation at
Staffordshire University.
Booking deadline: Thursday, 13 November, 2008
Costs: £150 members, £250 for non-members.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=316
3. News
3.1 The Teaching and Learning Research Programme – Technology Enhanced Learning
A description of the programme, together with associated material,
including on research challenges, events, and publications are
available at
http://www.tlrp.org/tel/
3.2 Trialling Collaborative Tools to Support BCE Expression of Interest.
Submission Deadline: Monday 3 November 2008
A reminder of the deadline for those of you intending to submit an
expression of interest.
Do you collaborate with external partners in business and the
community? Are you part of a regional partnership or Lifelong Learning
Network trying to improve business and community engagement?
Do you want some areas (for example your Arts and Science departments)
to jointly collaborate in new ventures with a partner?
Do you have an idea about how use of an online collaborative tool
could help you with any of the above?
If you have answered YES to any of the above questions you may
interested in joining our project to trial online collaborative tools.
See
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/bce/collab-tools-ceoi
3.3 Training Zone Profile of Josie Fraser: ALT Learning Technologist
of the Year. See
http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=189843
3.4 Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for
Higher Education
Developed to support the upcoming JISC Open Content calls this
briefing paper by Li Yuan, Sheila MacNeill and Wilbert Kraan of JISC
CETIS explores the background to the current development of and future
trends around Open Educational Resources. The briefing paper is
available from the JISC CETIS web site as a 34 page pdf document.
http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf
3.5 Exploring e-Assessment: A practitioner's perspective
An article by Helen Ashton which explores the benefits and challenges
at each stage of the e-assessment life cycle from what to assess to
how to measure student performance. The 9 page article is available
from the JISC CETIS web site
http://www.elearning.ac.uk/features/feature.2008-10-20.0921721929
3.6 ALT member Russell Stannard (University of Westminster) won the
Times Higher award for "Outstanding Initiative in ICT". His website
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com has walk through training videos
that show teachers how to use different types of technologies
including podcasts, iTunes, Blackboard, and Second Life. The site was
only launched just over a year ago, but it often gets 20,000 hits in a
month from teachers all over the world and the recently launched
newsletter that has 500 subscribers
Just 5 months ago, after the success of the first site, Russell
Stannard launched a second site with free multimedia training videos
for anyone interested in learning about multimedia called
http://www.multimediatrainingvideos.com This site has become just as
successful and in term time reaches up to 60,000 hits a month.
You can read about his site and what JISC, who sponsored the prize,
thought of it here
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2008/10/ICTwinner2008.aspx
3.7 Review of the 2005 HEFCE Strategy for e-Learning.
A report to HEFCE by Glenaffric Ltd, to which ALT contributed, is
available in various formats from the HEFCE web site at
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rdreports/2008/rd20_08/
4. Calls for papers
4.1 3rd International Multi-Conference on Society , Cybernetics And
Informatics: IMSCI 2009
10-13 July 2009, Orlando, FL, US
Deadline for submission: 6 Nov 2008
http://www.iiis2009.org/imsci/website/default.asp?vc=17
4.2 The International Conference on ICT in Education (ICICTE) 2009,
9 – 11 July 2009, Corfu, Greece
Deadline for proposals: 13 Febraury 2009
If you wish to present at ICICTE 2008 submit your proposal to Nancy
Pyrini [log in to unmask]
5. Other events
5.1 CPS Public Policy Exchange: Community Safety and Policing in
Partnership National Conference 2008
9 November 2008, London UK
http://publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/events/8L09-PPE.php
5.2 Study of Effective Evaluation Models and Practices for Technology
Supported Physical Learning Spaces
13 November 2008, Nottingham, UK
The Learning Sciences Research Institute is pleased to invite you to
join a group of leading academics, designers, architects and
educational technologists in an interactive workshop to investigate
effective evaluation models and practices for technology supported
physical learning spaces. Attendance is free, lunch will be provided.
http://www.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/jels for more information or email:
[log in to unmask] to reserve your place.
5.3 Emerging trends in learning technologies
21 November 2008, London, UK
http://www.elearningnetwork.org/content/emerging-technologies
5.4 Social Media Tools for Student Engagement
1 December 2008, Bristol, UK
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/events/eventbook.php?id=202
5.5 Let's Change the Game Conference Alternative Reality Games in
Education and Charity work: how this innovative genre is being applied
to these two sectors.
Includes speakers from BBC and Channel 4.
5 December 2008, London, UK
http://conference.operationsleepercell.com/
5.6 The 3rd International LAMS & Learning Design Conference
5 December 2008, Sydney, Australia
http://lams2008sydney.lamsfoundation.org/index.htm
5.7 JISC Conference 2009
24 March 2009, Edinburgh, UK
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/jiscconference09
5.8 The Fourth International Blended Learning Conference:
"Engaging Students in the Curriculum"
17-18 June 2009, Hatfield, UK
http://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/learning-and-teaching/blended-learning-institute/conferences/blended-learning-conference-2009/blended-learning-conference-2009_home.cfm
6. Invitations to tender and funding calls
6.1 Notice of tender - CPD Framework for Elected Members in Scottish
Local Government
The Improvement Service is tendering for content for a development
programme to support the implementation of the Continuous Professional
Development Framework for Elected Members in Scottish Local
Government. The Notice has been published today on
http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT052508
6.2 JISC Grant Funding Call 11/08: Call for Institutional innovation
projects in lifelong learning and workforce development
Project duration: March/April 2009 for 18 months
Total funding available: £100,000 - £300,000 per project
Deadline for submissions: 9 January 2009
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2008/10/instinnolll.aspx
7. Vacancies
7.1 University of Oxford
Oxford University Computing Services
Senior Learning Technologist Grade: 8
Salary: £36,532 - £43,622 pa
Two year post initially
Closing date: 14th November 2008
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/learning-technologist.xml
7.2 University of Leicester
IT Services
IT Training Specialist (e-Learning Technologies)
Salary: £30,594 to £35,469 per annum
Ref no:D3965
Full or part time: Full Time
Closing date: 26 November 2008
Informal enquiries: Mary Visser [log in to unmask]
http://www.le.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/D3965%20Ad2%20IT%20Training%20Specialist,%20IT%20Services.pdf
8. Courses
None in this digest
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This issue was compiled by Maren Deepwell and edited by Mark van Harmelen.
Regards
Mark van Harmelen
Director of Development
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