Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news digest 204, issued 28 June 2010
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Table of contents
1. Association news
2. Association events
3. News
4. Calls for papers/speakers
5. Other events – some with close deadlines
6. Vacancies
7. Current ALT Online Newsletter – links to articles
8. 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 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 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.
1.3 ALT/Epiguem Award - for the Most Effective Use of Video 2010. This
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.
1.4 Nine "What research has to say for practice" guides, implemented in
editable wiki format, are now on line at
http://wiki.alt.ac.uk/index.php/What_research_has_to_say_for_practice
We are very grateful to Becta, Eduserv, and the Higher Education Academy
for their support in funding the production of these guides and their
subsequent updating.
2. Association events
2.1 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. 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
4. Calls for papers/speakers
4.1 Call for Papers - IADIS International Conference on International
Higher Education 2010, 29-1 November/December 2010, Perth, Australia.
See http://www.ihe-conf.org/
Submission deadline: 19 July 2010 (first call extension)
4.2 The Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, is seeking contributions
to its forthcoming special issue on Quality in e-Learning. To submit,
please contact the guest editors:
Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, University of Augsburg (Germany):
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José-Ramón Hilera, University of Alcalá (Spain): [log in to unmask]
See http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0266-4909&site=1
4.3 Call for Papers - Open Access to Science Information: Trends, Models
and Strategies for Libraries - IFLA Satellite pre-conference, Sections:
Science and Technology Libraries, Health and Biosciences Libraries, 6-8
August 2010, Chania, Crete, Greece.
See http://www.ifla-sat-chania.com/
5. Other events
5.1 Gaining business intelligence from user activity data – JISC
Workshop, 14 July, 2010, Hatton Garden, London.
Register online at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2010/07/businessintelligence.aspx
5.2 UCISA 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
5.3 RunCoCo/Culturenet Cymru workshop: How to Run a Community Collection
Online, 27 July 2010, National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. See
http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/events/27July/index.html
5.4 AMEE Meeting: e-learning in the healthcare professions.4-5 September
2010, University of Glasgow. See http://www.amee.org/
5.5 FOTE10, University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) 3rd Future of
Technology in Education (FOTE) conference, 1 October 2010, University of
London’s, Senate House. See http://fote-conference.com/
6. Vacancies
6.1 University of Oxford
MSD-Learning Technologies, Medical Sciences Division
Educational technologist
Salary Grade 7: £28,983 - £35,646 Full time
Informal enquiries to Damion Young, Tel: 01865 282756
See http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/
Closing date: 2 July 2010
6.2 University of Bolton
Institute for Educational Cybernetics
PhD Studentship, Learning Design
Salary: Stipend 15K, Full time
Informal enquiries to Dr. Dai Griffiths: [log in to unmask]
See http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABG495/phd-studentship
Closing date: 5 July 2010
6.3 University of Leicester
Beyond Distance Research Alliance
Lecturer in Innovative Education
Ref no. SSC00106
Salary: £35,646 to £43,840
Full-time, 2-year fixed-term contract
Informal enquiries to Gilly Salmon: [log in to unmask]
See http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABG494/lecturer-in-innovative-education/
Closing date: 12 July 2010
6.4 University of Wisconsin-Madison
eLearning Applications Specialist.
Division of Information Technology's (DoIT) Learning Technology and
Distance Education (LTDE)
Ref: 64827
Full time salary rate: $38,000 (min) (12 months)
See http://ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_064827.html
Closing date: 15 July 2010
7.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
8. 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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