Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news digest 203, issued 11 June 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 We welcome Microsoft as a sponsoring member of ALT, and the
University of Glasgow, and the Centre for Distance Education at the
University of London as new Organisational Members.
1.2 ALT Policy Board meeting – 18 June 2010, at LSE in London. The
Policy Board is a meeting for representative of 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;
Ewart Wooldridge CBE, Chief Executive of the Leadership Foundation for
Higher Education.
The booking deadline has now passed, and joining instructions have been
issued. We will do our best to accommodate late bookings (up to close of
business on Tuesday 15 June). To make a late booking please call the ALT
Office on 01865 484125.
1.3 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/
1.4 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 SIG’s wiki is at
http://alt-vie-sig.wikispaces.com/. ALT’s other SIGs are described at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/sigs.html
1.5 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
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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.
1.6 ALT Awards
1.6.1 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
Wednesday Gala dinner on 8 September.
See http://tinyurl.com/2wh42et [31 kB PDF]
Closing date: 25 June 2010.
1.6.2 ALT/Epiguem Award for the Most Effective Use of Video 2010This
year the ALT/Epigeum video award will again run in conjunction with
ALT-C. The purpose of this award is to give credit to those
practitioners who are exploiting video to enhance learning. The overall
winners will be presented with their prizes during the Wednesday Gala
dinner on 8 September. For more details see
http://tinyurl.com/32vg8mz(31 kB PDF). To enter please complete the
online submission form: http://tinyurl.com/2vj33cu . Closing date: 2
July 2010.
1.7 ALT sponsoring member Google's Engineering University Programme for
Europe, the Middle East, and Africa connects Google engineering with
students and academics ensuring that new and existing opportunities for
collaboration are recognized, supported and grown. To find out more,
visit http://www.google.com/university/emea/index.html#
1.8 The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has announced that
computer based assessments will be central to its revised qualification,
due to be launched in July 2010. The AAT has been using ALT sponsoring
member BTL’s Surpass e-Assessment solution to deliver exams for a while
now, whilst also offering the option of a paper based exam. See
http://www.btl.com/news
1.9 On 16 June ALT sponsoring member Wimba will host an “online study
break” as part of the Higher Education Academy Information and Computer
Science Subject Centre’s ExAEF project. The ExAEF project, funded by the
HEA, is principally concerned with evaluating the role of formative
audio. For more information go to http://tinyurl.com/36lng5q
1.10 ALT sponsoring member Blackboard has won a CODiE award for K-12
education. See http://tinyurl.com/3yrctyr
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
2.2 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
2.3 ALT-C 2010: "Into something rich and strange" – making sense of the
sea-change. 7-9 September 2010, University of Nottingham. 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.
To book online go to http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2010/registering.html.
Substantial discounts on conference fees are available for ALT members,
and an additional "early bird" discount is available until 5 July 2010.
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 The June 2010 issue of SURF magazine (the magazine for ICT in higher
education and research) is available at
http://www.surf.nl/en/OverSURF/Publicaties/Documents/SURF02_2010_UK.pdf
3.4 Media in Education June Newsletter (aimed at people actively engaged
in promoting excellence in the use of media in education and is linked
to the annual MEDEA Awards) see. http://www.media-in-education.net/june-2010
3.5 The University of Leicester’s Beyond Distance Research Alliance has
a new Master’s in Innovative Education and Training at, by collaborative
distance learning, starting October 2010. See http://tinyurl.com/35n2kpm.
3.6 SABIP report entitled The Economics of Copyright and Digitisation: A
Report on the Literature and the Need for Further Research. An executive
summary is available to download at
http://www.sabip.org.uk/economics-executivesummary.pdf The full report
is also available to download at
http://www.sabip.org.uk/economics-finalreport.pdf. You can provide SABIP
with feedback on the report via http://www.sabip.org.uk/home/forums.htm
3.7 University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) and The Learning Edge
Europe have announced a partnership that will enable educational
institutions across the United Kingdom to access a securely hosted
EQUELLA/Moodle environment. EQUELLA is a digital repository for learning
objects, research and copyrighted materials; other uses include streamed
content, exam papers, media collections and theses. Read more at
http://bit.ly/ULCCTLEE
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.
5.Calls for papers/speakers
5.1 ascilite 2010 conference - call for full and concise papers,
posters, symposium and workshops for exploring the theme Curriculum,
technology & transformation for an unknown future. For more information
about the ascilite 2010 Conference visit:
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney10/index.htm
5.2 Vitae researcher development conference 2010: realising the
potential of researchers, 6 – 7 September 2010 Call for programme
content, see
http://tinyurl.com/3y3zbwx
5.3 Second Global Congress on Intelligent Systems (GCIS 2010)16-17
December 2010, Wuhan, China. See
http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/GCIS/2010 and
Second World Congress on Software Engineering (WCSE 2010)19-20 December
2010, Wuhan, China. See
http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/WCSE/2010
In addition to research papers, both conferences also encourages
companies and institutions to showcase their modern products and
equipment in the conference area. Email inquiries to:
[log in to unmask] (for GCIS 2010) or [log in to unmask] (for WCSE
2010).Submission deadline (extended): 15 July 2010
5.4 eAssessment Scotland 2010 - Marking the Decade,
3 September 2010, University of Dundee.
Pre-registration and Call for Presentations/Workshops, see
http://www.e-assessment-scotland.org
6. Other events
6.1 Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement in e-Learning Conference,
2 July 2010, Fielder Centre, University of Hertfordshire. See
http://tinyurl.com/37w8f8f
6.2 5th European LAMS & Learning Design Conference
15 July 2010, Wolfson College, Oxford (followed with a Design Bash, 16
July, 2010). Co-hosted and sponsored by JISC and CETIS the focus of the
2010 European Conference is - Sharing Great Ideas. See:
http://lams2010.lamsfoundation.org/index.htm
6.3 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and
Computational Science (CACS 2010)4 - 6 December 2010, Singapore. See
http://irast.org/conferences/CACS/2010
6.4 ALT organisational member eLN is running its an annual showcase
event on 9 July. For full details go to
http://www.elearningnetwork.org/events/eln-members-showcase
7. Vacancies
7.1 Institute of Education
London Knowledge Lab
Learning Technology Fellow
Ref: 7PR-CP-2933 Part-time (0.5 FTE)
Salary: £29,854 - £35,647 (plus £2,323 London Allowance) (pro-rata)
Informal enquiries to: [log in to unmask]
See http://jobs.ioe.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=7PR-CP-2933
Closing date: 15 June 2010
7.2 The University of Northampton
Information Services
Two vacancies for Learning Technologists
Ref: YN09116
Salary: £24,273 -- £29,853 per annum
For an information pack visit www.northampton.ac.uk/about/jobs or email:
[log in to unmask]
Closing date: 25 June 2010; Interview Date: 22 July 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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