Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news digest 208, issued 26 August 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. Vacancies
7. Most recent issue of the ALT Online Newsletter – links to articles
8. Current issue (18:2) of the ALT Journal – Research in Learning
Technology
1. ALT news
1.1 We welcome Barnet College as a new Organisational Member.
1.2 ALT Annual General Meeting – Nottingham, 16.20 to 17.00, Wednesday 8
September
Nearly 200 individual members and representatives of organisational and
sponsoring members will be at the ALT conference, and we very much hope
that many of you will attend the AGM. If you will not be attending and
would like your apologies recording, email Seb Schmoller
([log in to unmask]) or Emma Carr-Jones
([log in to unmask]). The Agenda for the AGM, together with the
Minutes from the 2009 AGM are in a four-page document at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/agm_2010_agenda.pdf .
For members unable to attend the AGM in person you may vote by proxy on
the two main AGM resolutions (to approve the annual report and accounts,
and to appoint auditors for financial year 2009-2010), and there is a
single-page proxy voting form at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/agm_2010_proxy_voting.pdf . If you decide to
vote by proxy please ensure that your completed proxy vote, signed and
dated, arrives at the ALT office by post or preferably fax by no later
than 17.00 on Thursday 2 September. If you are not attending the ALT
conference, and would like to attend the AGM, please notify me by noon
on Wednesday, 1 September and we will arrange for you to be sent
credentials.
1.3 Vacancies on ALT Committees. We have vacancies on three of our four
operational committees (Further Education, Membership Services,
Publications), for an initial three year term, with effect from autumn
2010. The closing date for expressions of interest is 3 September 2010.
There are links to the expression of interest forms at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/.
1.4 ALT Sponsoring Members LSN and Pearson are hosting fringe events at
all 3 Party Conferences - “Who should pay for skills?” September -
October 2010. These consist of panel debates with leading speakers who
will explore the key questions around “What should be the respective
contributions of learners, employers and the state in the new era of
skills funding and policy, and how can this best be achieved?”
http://www.lsnlearning.org.uk/
1.5. ALT sessions at ALT-C 2010
Please find below links and one line descriptions of ALT-related
sessions at ALT-C 2010 in Nottingham between 7 and 9 September.
1.5.1 Find out about CMALT
Tuesday 7 September, 12.00 - 12.30 (Room: ALTCT)
http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talks/15017
1.5.2 CMALT 5th Birthday Party
Tuesday 7 September, 12.30 - 13.39 (ALT Stand, Main Atrium)
http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talks/14980
1.5.3 Contribute to ALT's future strategy
Wednesday 8 September, 17.10 – 17.55 (Room: 3bc)
http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talks/14973
1.5.4 New members' reception
Tuesday 7 September, 18.20 - 19.30 (Room: ALTCT)
http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talks/15007
1.5.5 Get involved with ALT
Wednesday 8 September, 09.00 - 09.30 (Room: ALTCT)
http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talks/15032
1.5.6 Meet ALT's members
Wednesday 8 September, 09.40 - 10.10 (ALT stand, Main Atrium)
http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talks/15032
1.5.7 Certified Members' meeting
Wednesday 8 September, 12.00 - 13.00 (Room: ALTCT)
http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talks/15022
1.5.8 ALT Special Interest Groups: LERSIG and ViE SIG
Wednesday 8 September, 15.10 - 15.40 (Room: ALTCT)
http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talks/15020
1.5.9 Find out about CMALT (repeat of the Tuesday session)
Wednesday 8 September, 15.40 - 16.10 (Room: ALTCT)
http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talks/15020
1.5.10 ALT Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 8 September, 16.20 - 17.00 (Main Auditorium)
http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talks/15018
1.6 UK-based masters level courses in technology enhanced learning.
Matt Lingard has kindly put a listing of masters courses on the ALT wiki
at http://wiki.alt.ac.uk/index.php/TEL_Courses. We encourage colleagues
with knowledge of other comparable courses to add to it, having first
spent a few moments creating an account on the wiki.
1.7 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 recently 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 lunchtime webinars – dates for your diary, with further
details to follow:
14 October 2010 - Shooting Video for eLearning;
6 December 2010 - Learning in 2020.
There is further information about all of our events at
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. The 19 August deadline
for bookings for ALT-C 2010 has now passed and the on-line booking
system is no longer accessible. *If you need to make a late booking,
please contact Hayley Maisey, Head of Operations and Events and we will
do our best to help.* [log in to unmask]
The conference programme is available in a detailed interactive form at
http://http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/calendar
Conference participants, once logged into the site, can create a
personal schedule for the whole event, as well as seeing who else has
chosen to attend which sessions.
Alongside this, you can review:
* a 3 page PDF of the timetable at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/draft_programme_web.pdf
* a list of sessions provided by the major conference sponsors (Becta,
Blackboard Collaborate (the arm of Blackboard that now includes Wimba
and Elluminate), Blackboard Learn, Desire2Learn, Intel, JISC, Talis
Education, The Higher Education Academy, Pearson) at
http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talk/by_track/983
* details of 4 plenary keynotes at
http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talk/by_track/986
* details of 8 invited speaker sessions at
http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talk/by_track/988
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 Over the last decade JISC has licensed and digitised a large number
of online collections. A new website http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk/ has
recently been set up to provide a more user friendly way of finding a
route to all this content, acting as a gateway to the journals, images,
texts and other multimedia that are freely available to users in higher
and further education.
3.4. Web 2.0-based e-learning: applying social informatics for tertiary
teaching. ISBN: 978-1-60566-294-7; 483 pp; July 2010
Published under the imprint Information Science Reference (formerly Idea
Group Reference). Edited by: Mark J. W. Lee, Charles Sturt University,
Australia, Catherine McLoughlin, Australian Catholic University, Australia.
See http://igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=40272
4.Calls for papers/speakers
4.1 The third International mlibraries conference
Mobile technologies: information on the move
11-13 May 2011, Brisbane, Australia - Call for papers now open
http://www.usq.edu.au/m-libraries/program
5. Other events
5.1 Government ICT Goes Green 2010
16 September 2010, QEII Conference Centre, London
See http://www.govnet.co.uk/greenict/
5.2 Challenge 3 Learning to Change - Changing organisational practices
with Developmental Work Research, 17 September 2010, London Knowledge Lab.
See http://uk-sself.ning.com/events/challenge-3-learning-to-change.
5.3 Using evidence in learning and teaching practices with technology
(seminar), 29 September 2010, The Open University, Milton Keynes
See http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2166
To book, email: [log in to unmask]
Booking deadline: 20 September 2010
5.4 Seminar: Beyond Multiple Choice - The Latest in Innovative
e-Assessment Questions, BTL Group Ltd
22 September 2010, London. See http://www.btl.com
5.5 Learning beyond the course - eLearning Network
24 September 2010, Holborn Bars, London
See http://www.elearningnetwork.org/events/learning-beyond-course
5.6 Innovation in Education: Transforming Learning in the 21st Century,
17 November 2010, London
To book, see http://insidegovernment.msgfocus.com/c/1FnQcwNtbdbe71t1v
5.7 Research and Development 2010: Delivering Our Future Prosperity 18
November 2010, London
See http://www.insidegovernment.co.uk/marketing/reg_direct.php
For further information, email: [log in to unmask] or call
0845 666 0664.
5.8 Digital Inclusion: Driving Digital Participation and Engagement
1 December 2010, London
http://www.insidegovernment.co.uk/other/inclusion-digital/#agenda
For further information, email: [log in to unmask]
5.9 BETT 2011 – Education Technology Event
12 - 15 January 2011, London Olympia
http://www.bettshow.com
5.10 Education 2011-2021: Global challenges and perspectives of blended
and distance learning Summit
15-18 February 2011, Darling Harbour, Sydney
See http://www.dehub.edu.au/summit2011/
5.11 2011 2nd World Congress on Computer Science and Information
Engineering (CSIE 2011) 17-19 June 2011, Changchun, China
http://world-research-institute.org/conferences/CSIE/2011
6. Vacancies
6.1 University of Dundee
Library and Learning Centre (LLC)
LLC Systems Manager
Ref: CS0008 Salary: £36,715 - £43,840 Full Time
Informal Enquiries to: Hannah Whaley, Assistant Director
[log in to unmask]
See http://tiny.cc/llcsystems
Closing date: 10 September 2010
6.2 University of York
E-Learning Development Team
E-Learning Training Officer
Ref: UoY00936 Salary: £28,983 - £35,646 Full Time
http://www.york.ac.uk/jobs/
Informal enquiries to Dr Richard Walker: [log in to unmask] or Tel: 01904
321138
Closing date: 14 September 2010
6.3 Institute of Education
University of London
Research Officer
Ref: 7AC-CLLKL-5006
Salary: £29,854 - £35,647 plus £2,323 London Allowance (pro-rata)
Fixed term appointment - 30 June 2012.
See http://jobs.ioe.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=7AC-CLLKL-5006
Closing Date: 31 August 2010
7. Latest issue of ALT News Online – links to individual articles:
Article – “In my opinion” The HTML5 and Flash Debate by Barry Sampson
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/2flsxrri7hv19z0mhre8b8
Article – “IT in university level mathematics teaching and learning: a
mathematician's point of view” by Manchester Univerisity’s Professor
Alexandre Borovik http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/4edkkzb138s19z0mhre8b8
Article – “Echo360 Personal Capture” by Mimi Weiss Johnson and Justin
Gagen http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/q0078azxlyv19z0mhre8b8
Article – “Learning Landscapes in Higher Education” by Les Watson
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/wxjt53kw6dr19z0mhre8b8
Article – “W3C's Widget standards set to shake up the world of mobile
applications – and bring more features to VLEs” by Scott Wilson
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/w5a1dao0xsc19z0mhre8b8
Article – “Gaining business intelligence from user activity data”
A Report from the JISC Workshop, London, 14 July 2010 by David Kay
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/1cc17h3tcpb19z0mhre8b8
Article – “E-Learning in the Women's Institutes” by Lynne Stubbings
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/12eamb7nzxu19z0mhre8b8
Article – “A week in the life of Philip Wane, Nottingham Trent
University” by Philip Wane
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/1e6w6efzqnq19z0mhre8b8
8. Latest issue of ALT-J (to be ‘Research in Learning Technology’ from
January 2011) - article links
The current issue (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. *NB* 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 – “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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