Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news digest 202, issued 21 May 2010
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Table of Contents
1. Association news
2. Association events
3. News
4. Funding calls
5. Calls for papers/speakers
6. Other events – some with close deadlines
7. Vacancies
8. Current ALT Online Newsletter – links to articles
9. Current issue (18:1) of the ALT Journal – Research in Learning
Technology
1. Association news
1.1 2010 Learning Technologist of the Year Award
There are full details of the award, which closes for entries on 10 June
2010, and which this year has a new schools-focussed stream, at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/awards.html.
1.2 Trusteeship of ALT and Vice-chair of ALT
The AGM notification and the nomination forms for members interested in
standing for election as Trustees of ALT and/or as Vice-chair of ALT are
available from the ALT home page at http://www.alt.ac.uk/. Deadline:
5.00pm, 31 May 2010.
1.3 ALT Policy Board meeting – 18 June 2010, at LSE in London. The
Policy Board is a meeting for our organisational and sponsoring members.
* Theme: 'Technology in Learning and Teaching, an Enabler or a Tax?';
* Speakers include: Scott Anderberg, Director of eLearning Solutions,
Pearson eCollege; Professor Dame Wendy Hall, FRS FREng, Professor of
Computer Science at the University of Southampton, Professor Janet
Hartley, Pro-Director, Teaching and Learning, LSE; Sarah Jones, Chief
Executive of Ufi/learndirect;
Terry Mayes, Emeritus Professor and past Head of Academic Practice at
Glasgow Caledonian University; Sir Tim O’Shea, Principal of the
University of Edinburgh and Chair of JISC; Jane Williams, Executive
Director for Further Education, Skills and 14-19 at Becta; Ewart
Wooldridge CBE, Chief Executive of the Leadership Foundation for Higher
Education.
* Letter of invitation:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/2010_Policy_Board_Invitation.pdf; booking
form: http://tinyurl.com/ALT2010PB; booking deadline: 7 June.
1.4 CMALT Development Group formed
A new grouping of Certified Members of ALT, the CMALT Development Group
(CDG) has now been formed. Its founding members are Kirsten Thompson,
Dean Sheetz, and Tom Franklin. The CDG will take an active part in the
development of CMALT and in directing activities for the CMALT
community. The CDG can be contacted via [log in to unmask] . For more
information about the CDG and its members, go to:
http://repository.alt.ac.uk/772/.
1.5 Jorum Learning & Teaching Competition 2010. This year the Jorum
Learning & Teaching Competition will again run in conjunction with
ALT-C. The panel of judges will be looking for exciting, innovative
learning and teaching resources that have been created under a Creative
Commons licence to showcase at the conference. The overall winners will
be presented with their prizes during the Gala dinner on 8 September.
This year ALT-C will be held in Nottingham, 7 - 9 September 2010. See
http://www.alt.ac.uk/awards.html
Closing date for entries: 25 June 2010
1.6 The ALT Video in Education Special Interest Group (ViE SIG) was
established in February 2010. The remit of this SIG is to identify and
share up-to-date information and guidance on:
* institution-wide best practice for the management of digital
resources, and the integration with external electronic repositories;
* sound pedagogical principles in designing video materials for
educational purposes;
* guidance on issues concerning copyright and IPR, practical guidance on
addressing accessibility and usability criteria with reference to DDA.
The SIG officers are Phil Tubman (Lancaster University), Clive Young
(UCL) and John Conway (Imperial College London). The community will open
at the ViE SIG virtual event in June 2010.There is a wiki which can be
found at http://alt-vie-sig.wikispaces.com/ please feel free to post any
useful comments and case studies here.
For details of our other SIGs go to http://www.alt.ac.uk/sigs.html.
1.7 Wimba (a sponsoring member of ALT) is pleased to announce that the
Wimba Collaboration Suite has won the 2010 SIIA CODiE award for 'Best
Collaboration Solution'. See
http://www.wimba.com/company/newsroom/archive/wimba_wins_2010_siia_codie_award
1.8 ALT sponsoring member Adobe is offering an Adobe eLearning Suite 2 -
eSeminar, 25 May 2010. To register for this free online event, visit
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=1610404&loc=en_us
1.9 Subscribing to ALT-ANNOUNCE - Staff of organisational and sponsoring
members, alongside individual members of ALT, are entitled to subscribe
to ALT-ANNOUNCE, the Jiscmail list we use to distribute this fortnightly
Digest, the quarterly ALT News, and infrequent brief announcements about
ALT. Please encourage relevant colleagues to subscribe from the simple
form at http://www.alt.ac.uk/lists.html. In the case of staff of
organisational and sponsoring members, provided the staff member joining
has an email address consistent with the domain name of an
organisational or sponsoring member of ALT, we will approve the
subscription, which will, essentially, result in the subscriber becoming
an Associate Member of ALT, which is free for employees of ALT
organisational and sponsoring members under the newly announced changes
to our membership structure. Later this year we will be migrating this
process to the new ALT web site and any subscribers whom we have treated
in this way will be able to opt out.
2. Association events
2.1 ALT/eLN free lunchtime webinar:
*The Science of Learning* 22 June 2010, 12 midday
The purpose of this webinar will be to explore what we really know about
how people learn. What can we conclude from decades of research into
learning psychology and through more recent discoveries in neuroscience?
What are the implications of what we now know? What is solid and
dependable and what is mere 'pop psychology'?
Donald Clark and Richard Cox will share their own views on this
controversial topic and provide you with the opportunity to join the
debate. Clive Shepherd will act as host for a discussion in which you
are very welcome to contribute.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=369
Further ALT/eLN free lunchtime webinars – dates for your diary, with
further details to follow:
* 2 August 2010 - *How to Run a Virtual Classroom Session*
* 14 October 2010 - *Shooting Video for eLearning*
* 6 December 2010 - *Learning in 2020*
2.2 ALT-C 2010: "Into something rich and strange" – making sense of the
sea-change. 7-9 September 2010, University of Nottingham -
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2010/.
You can now book to attend at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2010/registering.html.
Keynote speakers
* Barbara Wasson, Professor of Pedagogical Information Science at the
Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of
Bergen, Norway;
* Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle
University;
* Donald Clark, Board Member of Ufi, and former CEO of Epic Group plc.
Confirmed Invited Speakers include: Hans-Peter Baumeister; Heather Fry;
Martin Hall; Frank McLoughlin; Aaron Porter; Josie Taylor; David White.
2.3 CMALT Webinar – 27 May 2010. We are running another CMALT webinar
for candidates wishing to get started or complete their portfolios. For
further information and to book please go to:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=370 Joining instructions and
the link to attend the webinar will be sent out once you have booked online.
2.4 Find out about CMALT – a briefing led by Seb Schmoller
4 June 2010 (10.30 - 12.00), Media Zoo, University of Leicester
For more information about CMALT visit: http://www.alt.ac.uk/cmalt.html
For details about the Media Zoo, including location, see
http://www.le.ac.uk/mediazoo
2.5 Clayton R. Wright has produced his very extensive summary of over
750 Education Technology and Related Conferences, Workshops and Forums
for July to December 2010. With his permission we have placed a copy in
the ALT Open Access Repository at http://repository.alt.ac.uk/776/.
3. News
3.1 For the latest HEFCE news headlines see http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news
3.2 For the latest JISC news headlines see http://jisc.ac.uk/news.asp
3.3 Media in Education Newsletter (aimed at people actively engaged in
promoting excellence in the use of media in education and is linked to
the annual MEDEA Awards). http://www.media-in-education.net/may-2010
3.4 Birkbeck College and the Institute of Education have launched a new
joint Masters programme, bringing together the research-led computing
and educational expertise at the London Knowledge Lab, which is a joint
research lab of these two leading institutions. The MSc in Learning
Technologies provides academic grounding for anyone considering or
already working in the field of learning technology. For further
information see: http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/courses/lt/
3.5 Open Educational Resources (OER) Consultation Process.
The OPAL (http://oer-quality.org/) project has collected 58 case studies
of OER initiatives and from these abstracted a set of associated Open
Educational Practices (OEP). An online space has been set up to
facilitate this consultation process, to become involved see
(http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2087).
3.6 Education for an Open Web - Joint Mozilla/Shuttleworth Fellowship
http://www.mozilla.org/grants/education-fellowship.html
3.7 HEFCE - Vacancies on strategic advisory committees
The positions provide a unique opportunity to contribute to higher
education at a critical period in its development see
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/
These positions are unpaid fixed-term appointments but expenses are
paid. Applications should address the specification and must include an
equalities monitoring form, available from the following contacts:
*Teaching, Quality, & the Student Experience:
[log in to unmask]
*Leadership, Governance, and Management: [log in to unmask]
*Research and Innovation: R&[log in to unmask]
*Enterprise and Skills: E&[log in to unmask]
Closing date: 12am, 27 May 2010.
3.8 Sponsors of the MEDEA Media in Education Awards 2010
http://www.medea-awards.com/
3.9 Publishers of the monthly Media in Education Newsletter
http://www.http://www.media-in-education.net
3.10 Visit the Medea Awards YouTube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/MedeaAwards
4. Funding calls
4.1 JISC Grant 06/10: Higher Education Academy/JISC Open Educational
Resources Programme Phase 2. The Higher Education Academy and JISC
invites the submission of funding proposals for projects in the
following areas linked to Open Educational Resources:
* A(i): OER release meeting sector needs - projects committing to
release a substantial amount of content in the indicated areas.
£2,000,000 (one year projects of up to £250,000);
* A(iii): Cascade support in the release of OER - teams already
releasing OER sustainably working with one or more partners to support
those new to OER release. £525,000 (one year projects of up to £75,000);
* C(i): Collections of OER based around a thematic area - projects
identifying, collecting and promoting collections of OER and other
material around a common theme. £600,000 (1 year projects of up to £75,000).
Closing deadline: 12.00 noon on 24 June. For more information go to
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2010/04/grant0610.aspx.
4.2 Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer
Sciences (ICS)
Subject Development Fund grants -up to £3,500
Proposals for funding are available at
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/development-fund/general.php
Submission deadline for applications: 30 June 2010.
4.3 Digital Participation Consortium – Application for funding
See funding application page at
http://www.digitalparticipation.com/about/how-we-work/applications
Further details available at http://www.digitalparticipation.com/
Applications deadline for first round of funding for 2010/11: 1 June 2010.
5.Calls for papers/speakers
5.1 eLearning Papers is looking for contributions on Innovation in
Lifelong Learning. The 21st issue aims to reveal the potential of those
innovations
that are shaping formal and informal learning in our everyday environments.
See http://www.elearningpapers.eu/index.php?page=fix&id=15>
5.2 ascilite 2010 Conference - Curriculum, technology & transformation
for an unknown future - invitation to develop proposals for full and
concise papers, posters, symposium and workshops. For submission
information, visit
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney10/index.htm
6. Other events
6.1 SOLSTICE 5th International Conference - Technology Enhanced Learning
and the Student Experience. 3 June 2010, Edge Hill University,
Lancashire. Visit http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/Conference2010/
6.2 The HEA Evidence Based Practice Seminar Series 2010
4 June 2010, University of Hertfordshire
Please email booking requests to Lesley Bodman: [log in to unmask]
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2010/jointevents/4_June_Hertfordshire_ProfLandT_Seminar
6.3 Teaching and Learning Innovation Symposium. June 6 - 8 2010, Hong
Kong, see http://www.3c.edc.polyu.edu.hk/symposium
6.4 One hour taster: Being a teacher in an online world. 22 June 2010,
University of Huddersfield (5.30pm – 6.30pm). See http://tiny.cc/qluyc
To book a place contact Liz Bennett [log in to unmask]
6.5 HEA Special Interest Group Supporting Sustainable e-Learning Forum
(SSeLF) seminar ‘Learning and assessment ‘born digital’ 25 June 2010,
Edinburgh University. See
http://uk-sself.ning.com/events/challenge-2-session-learning to
register, visit
https://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?formkey=dEU3U29iSXd0X09VeHNHc1g1aXJIdFE6MQ
6.6 ULCC Workshop - web archiving. 28 June 2010, School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS). See bit.ly/DPTPWebA)
6.7 iVERG Conference 2010
28-29 June 2010, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK.
Full list of presentation tiles and abstracts online.
See http://preview.tinyurl.com/22r2fg8
6.8 Open Repositories Conference 2010 - Registration Open. 6 to 9 July
2010, Madrid, see http://or2010.fecyt.es/Publico/Home/index.aspx
6.9 ULCC, hosting MaharaUK 10 conference. 16 July 2010, Westminster
Kingsway College, King’s Cross campus. For information about the
conference and how to pre-register see http://bit.ly/maharauk10
6.10 User Support Conference 2010
20 - 22 July 2010, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, See
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/ssg/Events/2010/usersupport.aspx
Booking deadline: 25 June 2010
6.11 Organisers of the Media & Learning Conference
25-26 November 2010, Brussels
http://www.media-and-learning.eu
7. Vacancies
7.1 University of Bath
Department of Chemistry
ICT Project Manager
Ref no: JK74
Salary: £23,566 to £28,983
Full or part time: 2 year Fixed Term Contract
Informal enquiries to: Director of CSCT, Professor Matthew Davidson:
[log in to unmask] or by telephone (01225 386443) or CSCT
Coordinator, Dr Janet Scott: [log in to unmask]
See http://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=JK74
Closing date: 31 May 2010
8.Current ALT Online Newsletter – links to individual articles:
OER 2010: Exploring OER Content, Design and Communities, by Theo Lynn
and Neil Bruton - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/1w5onztob68
Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference 2010, by Leo Havemann and
Mimi Weiss Johnson - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/b9r0mrk4by6
Telling Stories at ELI2010: the Educause Learning Initiative 2010
conference, Texas, by Jackie Carter -
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/1jlqks66l2e
MoodleMoot UK 2010, by Jessica Gramp,
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/1bv5z40d42p
MEC 2010: Celebrating 30 Years of Sharing Learning Technology Experience
and Expertise, by Theo Lynn, Neil Bruton and Kieran Linehan -
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/ih9g8clv7j8
Innovative Teaching and Learning Research - Studying Changing Teaching
Practices and Students' 21C Competencies, by Maria Langworthy -
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/1tnyr31omrs
Confederation of Open Access Repositories Inaugural General Assembly,
March 2010, by Neil Jacobs of JISC - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/1st4bgagk94
Using a departmental blog with post-16 Health Sciences students, by
Keith Shaw – http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/lava3738nfe
Online Learning – a Guide for Associations, by Louella Morton and
Brendan Noud of WBT Systems - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/tlkmxp2yhhu
Action Research as a key to stimulating Innovation and Professional
Development in ILT, by John Webber - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/7h1dewbzfqg
Amplified staff development, by Jennifer Jones, Joanne Badge, Stuart
Johnson and Alan Cann - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/if3lujbvuml
9. Current issue of ALT J – Research in Learning Technology - article links
The current issue of the ALT Journal - Research in Learning Technology,
Volume 18 Issue 1, can be accessed online from the links below. If your
organisation is a member of ALT, or if it has an online subscription to
the Journal, *and* if its network is appropriately configured, then you
should be able to click straight through to the individual articles.
Note that all organisational and sponsoring members of ALT are entitled
to online access to ALT-J for all their employees when logged into the
network. If you cannot access the Journal online, this is something we
may be able to help you fix).
Table of contents http://www.tinyurls.co.uk/F1747
Editorial - ”The implication of context in applying learning
technologies” by Frances Bell
DOI: 10.1080/09687761003741335
http://tinyurl.com/2dskgc5
Article – “On designing a pervasive mobile learning platform” by Teemu
H. Laine, Mikko Vinni, Carolina Islas Sedano and Mike Joy
DOI: 10.1080/09687761003657606
http://tinyurl.com/2b43cze
Article – “Medical students’ perceptions of video-linked lectures and
video-streaming” by RuoLan Wang, Karen Mattick and Elisabeth Dunne DOI:
10.1080/09687761003657622
http://tinyurl.com/23w3hv8
Article – “Typing compared with handwriting for essay examinations at
university: letting the students choose” by Nora Mogey, Jessie Paterson,
John Burk and Michael Purcell
DOI: 10.1080/09687761003657580
http://tinyurl.com/28rnxw4
Article – “Blended learning in Saudi universities: challenges and
perspectives” by Reem Alebaikan and Salah Troudi
DOI: 10.1080/09687761003657614
http://tinyurl.com/2dbvrok
Article – “Self-regulation across time of first-generation online
learners”, by Lucy Barnard-Brak, Valerie Osland Paton and William Y. Lan
DOI: 10.1080/09687761003657572
http://tinyurl.com/29elhje
Article – “Effective e-learning? Multi-tasking, distractions and
boundary management by graduate students in an online environment” by
Jennie Winter, Debby Cotton, Joan Gavin and Jon D. Yorke
DOI: 10.1080/09687761003657598
http://tinyurl.com/2dush9t
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