Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news digest 205, issued 16 July 2010
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Table of Contents
1. ALT news
2. ALT events
3. News
4. Calls for papers/speakers
5. Other events – some with close deadlines
6. Current ALT Online Newsletter – links to articles
7. Current issue (18:1) of the ALT Journal – Research in Learning
Technology
1. ALT news
1.1 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
1.2 'Technology revolution' is the way for education to withstand cuts.
http://tinyurl.com/2c85fq8 is a recent piece by John Stone, a former
vice-Chair of JISC, and now Chief Executive of the LSN, an ALT
Sponsoring Member.
1.3 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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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. ALT events
2.1 ALT/eLN free webinar - How to run a virtual classroom session,
presented by Clive Shepherd and Barry Sampson. More and more education
and training providers are making use of web conferencing as a way to
bring learners together for events that would have previously been
conducted in the classroom, or which may not previously have been
practical or economic on a face-to-face basis. Effective virtual
classroom sessions go way beyond webinars or online meetings to involve
all participants as much as or more than the physical classroom, through
the use of a wide variety of multimedia and interactive techniques. In
this session, Clive and Barry will share the benefit of their extensive
experience with virtual classrooms to help you both assess the potential
for the greater use of live online learning in your organisation and
ensure that the sessions that you do deliver are as least as successful
as your face-to-face events.
More ALT/eLN lunchtime webinars – dates for your diary, with further
details to follow:
14 October 2010 - Shooting Video for eLearning;
6 December 2010 - Learning in 2020.
Further information on all ALT’s events: http://www.alt.ac.uk/events.php
2.2 ALT-C 2010: “Into something rich and strange” – making sense of the
sea-change. Nottingham, UK, 7-9 September 2010. Booking deadline:
Friday, 13 August
Plenary speakers:
* Saul Tendler, the University of Nottingham's Pro-Vice-Chancellor for
Teaching and Learning
* 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.
Invited speakers:
1. Hans-Peter Baumeister, Co-Director of the European School of
Business's Research Institute at Reutlingen University, Germany;
2. Heather Fry, Director of Education and Participation, HEFCE;
3. Sudhir Giri, Head of Learning Technologies for Google;
4. Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor, University of Salford;
5. Frank McLoughlin, Principal, City and Islington College;
6. Aaron Porter, President, National Union of Students;
7. Josie Taylor, Director, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open
University;
8. David White, Senior Manager: Development, Technology-Assisted
Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford.
Major anchor sponsors include: Becta, BIS, Blackboard, Desire2Learn,
Elluminate, Intel, JISC, The Higher Education Academy, Positive
Internet, TALIS, Ufi, University of Nottingham and Wimba.
Further information, with a sign-up form for low volume email
distribution list about the conference, is available from the conference
website http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2010.
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 Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies July
e-bulletin, see http://www.llas.ac.uk/e-bulletin
3.4 Open University MA in Online and Distance Education module:
Accessible online learning: supporting disabled students.
See http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/course/h810.htm
4.Calls for papers/speakers
4.1 E-Assessment in Practice
10-11 November 2010, Shrivenham, UK.
Call for papers, posters, demonstrations on the subject of e-Assessment
See http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/cds/Symposia/EA10.html
4.2 DEHub and ODLAA
Education 2011-2021: Global challenges and perspectives of blended and
distance learning summit. Call for papers and submissions
15 - 18 February 2011, Sydney, Australia
See: http://www.dehub.edu.au/summit2011/index.html
5. Other events
5.1 Inclusive Learning Technologies Conference 2012
22 - 25 May 2012, Queensland, Australia
See http://www.spectronicsinoz.com/conference/2012/
5.2 Tackling Social Exclusion: The Way Forward
29 September 2010, Central London, UK
http://insidegovernment.msgfocus.com/c/1CPrxBvxLfrKSgBsE
5.3 Research information in transition - series of evening events in
2010 organised by the Research Information Network
*11 October - The future of scholarly publishing – where do we go from
here; *18 November - Research data – policies and behaviours;
*13 December - Quality assurance – responding to a changing information
world.
See
http://www.rin.ac.uk/news/events/research-information-transition-series-evening-events-2010
5.4 Transforming the National Curriculum: Creating a Curriculum Fit for
the 21st Century
21 October, Central London, UK
http://insidegovernment.msgfocus.com/c/1CfEpWmYMaGMzVWfi)
5.5 Reforming Public Sector Transparency: Enhancing Scrutiny,
Accountability and Innovation
24 November 2010, Central London, UK
http://insidegovernment.msgfocus.com/c/1Dhtfp1RvbjQsHpLS
* early bird discount - 10% off to all public / third sector
organisations (offer ends 27 August 2010)
5.6 Westminster Briefing Conference: The Third Sector In 2010: Current
Challenges, Future Opportunities
30, November 2010, Westminster, London
See http://www.westminster-briefing.com/?p=13783
5.7 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and
Computational Science
4-6 December 2010, Singapore
See: http://irast.org/conferences/CACS/2010
6. 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
7. New issue of ALT J – Research in Learning Technology - article links.
The current issue of the ALT Journal - Research in Learning Technology,
Volume 18 Issue 2, 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://tinyurl.com/2vlfm9u
Editorial – “A snapshot of research in learning technology” by
Rhona Sharpe
DOI: 10.1080/09687769.2010.499207
http://tinyurl.com/2wfwruo
Article – “A snapshot of research in learning technology” by
Rhona Sharpe
DOI: 10.1080/09687769.2010.499207
http://tinyurl.com/3a2o5tp
Article – “Sustainability factors for e-learning initiatives” by Cathy Gunn
DOI: 10.1080/09687769.2010.492848
http://tinyurl.com/2ua6gx2
Article – “The role of podcasting in effective curriculum renewal”
by Ming Nie, Alejandro Armellini, Sue Harrington, Kelly Barklamb and Ray
Randall
DOI: 10.1080/09687769.2010.492849
http://tinyurl.com/3y8k8py
Article – “Integrating technology with literacy: using teacher-guided
collaborative online learning to encourage critical thinking” by Alyson
Simpson
DOI: 10.1080/09687769.2010.492846
http://tinyurl.com/2vuo4bs
Article – “Exploring mobile learning success factors” by Thomas D. Cochrane
DOI: 10.1080/09687769.2010.494718
http://tinyurl.com/2vbnqen
Article – “Students and mobile devices” by John Traxler
DOI: 10.1080/09687769.2010.492847
http://tinyurl.com/36lenvx
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