Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news Digest 301 issued on 13 June 2014
Please submit items for the ALT Fortnightly Digest, including job vacancies, via the form at http://goo.gl/LlJ3y.
The deadline for the next issue of the Digest is 12.00 on Wednesday 25 June for the Digest to be issued on Friday 27 June 2014.
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Table of Contents
1. ALT news
2. ALT events
3. News
4. Other events
5. Calls for proposals
6. Funding calls
7. Open Educational Resources
8. Job vacancies
9. ALT Online Newsletter - links to articles from the latest Issue
10. Current articles the ALT Journal - Research in Learning Technology
1. ALT News
1.1 "Fertile Soil" - New Changing the Learning Landscape (CLL) project blog
This project is about enabling higher education institutions in England, including colleges of further education providing higher education, to bring about change in their strategic approaches to technology in learning and teaching. ALT is one of the partners of this Hefce-funded project. Read the latest insights from evaluator Professor Patsy Cullen.
http://ow.ly/xBSHS
1.2 How what you do now can help shape learning technology across sectors
Following the publication of the report from the Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG) in March this year, the question of how technology can effectively be used for learning, teaching and assessment is now being explored by a new group, ETAG. Maren Deepwell explores how you can contribute in the latest FE Column.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1oBP2yR
2. ALT Events
2.1 Institutional Open Education and OER Policies, 12.30 BST 23 June 2014
This webinar will provide two perspectives on OER policies and seek to answer some of the key questions related to Open Education and OER policies. Paul Bacsich (Sero Counsulting and Project Manager on the POERUP project) will provide a perspective on policy developments from the various UK and EU Open Education projects and beyond. Teresa Bird (Learning Technologist at the University of Leicester and SCORE Research Fellow) will give her perspectives on the development of OER policies.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/SSN0Ne
2.2 Latest ocTEL recordings and live webinars now available
Latest #ocTEL webinar recording: “Learners as leaders” with Ellie Russell, Projects Officer for The Student Engagement Partnership and Professor Shân Wareing, Pro Vice Chancellor for Learning and Teaching at Bucks New University.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1oRBP3s
2.3 #altc Annual Conference registration is open - book by 30 June 2014 to receive an early bird discount
Registration is open for ALT’s annual conference (‘Riding Giants: How to innovate and educate ahead of the wave’): Monday 1 - Wednesday 3 September 2014, University of Warwick, UK. ALT members get a 20% discount on all conference fees. Early bird fees apply until 30 June.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1iNlho1
3. News
3.1 National Survey on Assistive Technology and Inclusion – DART 2.1 Project
DART 2.1 (Disseminating Assistive Roles and Technology 2.1) is a Jisc funded project which will provide free training for those involved in providing assistive technology support for disabled learners. We are asking people who are responsible for assistive technology provision in any post compulsory education context to complete a questionnaire on Assistive Technology & Inclusion.
We estimate the questionnaire will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1jzQ06R
4. Events
4.1 Engaging With Learner Analytics Forums, 25-26 June 2014, London UK
With many institutions embarking on their own explorations of how they can use student related data to improve student retention and provide a higher quality, personalised learning experience, the challenge is where to start and what to prioritise? Attend a one day forum to explore the power of Learner Data & Learning Analytics to: Improve student retention & student progression; Supporting the provision of a high quality & consistent student experience; Identification of good practice for academic enhancement; Improve student reflection, engagement and performance.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1itqdy2
4.2 Collaborative innovation - involving disabled people in user-led innovation, 18.00 – 19.30 BST, 19 June 2014
You are invited to an event at the Royal Society, London to discuss the involvement of disabled people in user-led innovation. This event will look at challenges and opportunities and highlight two projects in which disabled people are an integral part of the innovation process.
4.3 Making effective use of your VLE, 19 June – 8 July 2014
Over a series of webinars we ask how effective is your VLE? Making improvements to the VLE's course design, reliability and having more insight into performance data can impact on increasing adoption, engagement and ultimately improving learner outcomes. During these webinars we offer solutions to common challenges College's
and Universities face in providing excellent online provision.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1oRBP3s
4.4 Mahara UK14 e-portfolio conference, 17th-18th July, University of Brighton
This annual conference brings together educators, learning technologists and developers, with an interest in e-portfolios and the open source e-portfolio platform Mahara. With a series of keynotes, talks and workshops, the conference provides an ideal opportunity to network with colleagues from across the UK, share ideas and discuss future developments.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1kojjcQ
4.5 Connected Learning in an Open World - 12th Annual APT Conference, 8 July 2014
The Academic Practice and Technology (APT) Conference: Connected Learning in an Open World is our twelfth annual conference hosted by the eCentre at the University of Greenwich. It provides an opportunity for delegates and presenters to debate and explore the significant challenges for higher and post-compulsory education and training arising from these waves of rapid change. Keynote speakers are Stephen Downes and Diana Laurillard.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1e7wf6N
4.6 Bartlett Future Pedagogy Conference 2014: MOOCs E-learning and Beyond. 1 July 2014, UCL Bloomsbury campus
Debate the place of innovative digital technologies in the built environment at The Bartlett's annual pedagogy conference.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1oBRhlG
4.7 Techmix Digital Summer Trip 2014, 3 – 5 July 2014
ALT has 100 discounted tickets available for Techmix Digital Summer Trip: 50% off tickets for Friday 4 & Saturday 5 July.
Go to DigitalSummerTrip.com and enter the promotion code: ALT350
5. Calls for proposals
None this issue.
6. Funding calls
None this issue.
7. Open Educational Resources
None this issue.
8. Job vacancies
8.1 Birkbeck, University of London
IT Services
Lecture Recording Project Coordinator
11271
£31,644
Full time, Temporary
Closing date: 22 June 2014
Informal enquiries to: [log in to unmask]
www.bbk.ac.uk/jobs
8.2 University of Leeds
Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied
Online Learning Specialist and Teaching Fellow
ARTIE0009
£25,013 - £29,837
Full time, Temporary
Closing date: 15 June 2014
Informal enquiries to: Sarah Foster, [log in to unmask] OR 0113 343 7794
8.3 University of Bradford
Centre for Educational Development
Educational Developer (e-Assessment)
ACW0201
£32,590 - £36,661
Full time, Permanent
Closing date: 1 July 2014
Informal enquiries to: John Dermo, [log in to unmask] OR 01274 236740
9. Current articles from the ALT Online Newsletter
The newsletter website is at: http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/
Latest Articles:
Article – “I feel the need, the need for…Assistive Technology!”, Shirley Evans
http://go.alt.ac.uk/RJAnDd
Article – “Transforming universities and colleges for the digital age”, Featured Post from ALT sponsoring member Jisc
http://go.alt.ac.uk/RJAnDd
Article – “Becoming an ALT Trustee”, Shirley Evans
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1hF0RwL
Article – “Becoming an ALT Trustee”, Doug Gowan
http://go.alt.ac.uk/TZqLX6
Article – “ALT Members views on Learning Analytics”
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1mlcfma
Article – “Open Education Conference OER14”, David Kernohan
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1jW6ZEC
For information on how to submit an article to the Newsletter email [log in to unmask]
10. Current articles from our peer-reviewed Open Access journal Research in Learning Technology
The journal website is at: http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/
Latest articles:
Article – “A tale of two doctoral students: social media tools and hybridised identities”, Liz Bennett and Sue Folley
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1gHupP5
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v22.23791
Article - “A portal of educational resources: providing evidence for matching pedagogy with technology”, Nicoletta Di Blas, Alessandro Fiore, Luca Mainetti, Roberto Vergallo, and Paolo Paolini
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1uYBQpc
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v22.22906
Editorial – “Technologies and Forms of Agency”, Lesley Gourlay
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1rnYGXR
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v22.24720
Article – “Predictors of perceived importance and acceptance of digital delivery modes in higher education”, Anne Mertens, Joachim Stöter, Olaf Zawacki-Richter
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1ixQbig
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v22.23342
Article – “Defining a self-evaluation digital literacy framework for secondary educators: the DigiLit Leicester project”, Richard Hall, Lucy Atkins, Josie Fraser
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1kXqpHz
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v22.21440
Article – “Mobile phone voting for participation and engagement in a large compulsory law course”, Chad Habel and Matthew Stubbs
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1n6gEv0
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v22.19537
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