Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news Digest 326 issued on 26 June 2015
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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 Early call for expressions of interest in Chairing the 2017 ALT Conference
ALT's Trustees are seeking an experienced Chair (or up to 3 Co-Chairs) for the 2017 Conference Programme Committee and its executive, who will play a major role in planning and delivery of ALT's 24th Annual Conference in 2017.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1KNvMG1
1.2 ALT warmly welcomes the following organisations as new Organisational Members:
City of Westminster College http://www.cwc.ac.uk/
Petroc https://www.petroc.ac.uk/
Liverpool Hope University http://www.hope.ac.uk/
2. ALT Events
2.1 Early bird registration extended to 13 July 2015 for the 22nd Annual Conference of the Association for Learning Technology, 8–10 September 2015, University of Manchester.
Early bird registration offers a significant discount across all conference fees ALT members are also entitled to a further 20% discount on attendance.
To book please visit: http://go.alt.ac.uk/2015-altc-reg.
2.2 ALT Annual Conference 2015: webinar for presenters, 27 July 2015, 12.30 BST
Join Conference Co-Chairs Amanda Jeffries and Liz Masterman, and the Annual Conference Programme Committee for this free lunch time webinar.
The session is designed to provide information and support to presenters whose submissions have been accepted for presentation at ALT Annual Conference 2015.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1BR8JuQ
2.3 'Open Guilds' – what can they do for me?
Join this webinar to explore the idea of 'Open Guilds'. These are networks of teachers/lecturers committed to creating and sharing open educational resources.
Presented by Terry Loane and Teresa MacKinnon
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1JnlYG2
3. News
None this issue.
4. Events
4.1 iLRN Prague 2015 Conference
Come and join us at the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) 1st International Conference in Prague on July 13th and 14th 2015. The conference is an interesting forum for discussion and sharing of our research and best practice in this emerging field of immersive education.
More information available at: http://go.alt.ac.uk/1Idvt9j
4.2 East Midlands Learning Technologists' group Summer Meeting, Loughborough University, Monday 29 June 2015, 12:00-16:00.
The theme is ‘Let’s get mobile!’ exploring the benefits and challenges associated with going mobile providing a variety of examples of how mobile technologies have been used to support learning.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1JO0al8
4.3 Applications welcomed for the PGCert/PGDip/MSc Blended and Online Education, September 2015 start.
A fully online programme designed to give education practitioners and those supporting education a hands-on opportunity to explore technology enhanced approaches for their own teaching and training needs. A combination of theoretical grounding, conceptual understanding, tailored application and original research related to blended and online learning, teaching and assessment. Exit points are offered at PG Cert (3 modules), PG Dip (6 modules), and MSc (6 modules + digital dissertation).
http://www2.napier.ac.uk/ed/boe
Expressions of interest to: [log in to unmask]
4.4 SS15 Conference 8 July to 10 July 2015 run by UCISA
University of Oxford Final places available.
For information go to: http://go.alt.ac.uk/1RvDIOy
Conference programme: http://go.alt.ac.uk/1dfxSDw
4.5 AoC Annual Conference and Exhibition 17-19 November 2015, ICC Birmingham now open for bookings. This year's theme is 'Powering the Economy'
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1J4s6jt
4.6 SRHE event ‘Postgraduate Ethics: Issues, Dilemmas, Solutions 15 July London
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1JGIyWP
4.7 Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences for June to December 2015
Clayton R Wright has circulated an updated version of his thorough listing of conferences and, as with previous updates this is now on the ALT Open Access repository at http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2360/
5. Calls for proposals
5.1 Special Session on Immersive Technologies and Learning at CEEC'15
Researchers are invited to submit a full paper (5-6 pages) detailing their research or a short paper (max 4 pages), which describes their work-in-progress. Papers will be published on IEEE Xplore. Selection of papers will be invited to submit an extended version to Transactions on Future Intelligent Educational Environments (TOFIEE). Paper submission deadline (extended): 30th June 2015. http://ceec.uk/ceec15/special-sessions/itl/
5.2 CfP Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference; Edinburgh 25-29th April 2016
Providing a multidisciplinary forum for addressing the critical issues and challenges confronting the education sector today, the theme this year is: “Enhancing Impact: Convergence of Communities for Grounding, Implementation and Validation”. The conference welcomes practitioner and researcher submissions. http://go.alt.ac.uk/1cPzaER
5.3 AoC Annual Conference and Exhibition 2015 call for ‘Breakout’ submissions of 60 minutes each. http://go.alt.ac.uk/1eGYI9e
6. Funding calls
6.1 Delivery of learning and development opportunities in the education and training sector (ELMAG 2), deadline 6 July 2015
Phase 1 of the ELMAG programme (which ended in March 2015) commissioned 15 projects that delivered a range of learning and development opportunities. This Invitation to Tender for Phase 2 projects, has been developed by the ELMAG partnership in collaboration with the Foundation.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1JJZCyp
7. Open Educational Resources
None this issue.
8. Job vacancies
8.1 University of West London
Institute for Teaching, Innovation and Learning (INSTIL)
Academic Developer in TEL
INS024
£34,500 - £41,907
Full time, Permanent
Closing date: 29 June 2015
Informal enquiries to: [log in to unmask]
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1C2BNd8
8.2 Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust
Learning Technology Officer
260-1131-GJ
£26,030 to £33,816
Full Time, permanent
Closing Date: 3 July 2015
Informal enquiries to: Simon Kear [log in to unmask]
8.3 University of Warwick
Warwick Monash Alliance
Senior Academic Technologist
£38,511 - £45,954 per annum
18 months, full time
Closing Date: 10 July 2015
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1GynOg4
9. Current articles from the ALT Online Newsletter
The newsletter website is at: http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/
Latest articles:
“The Question of ‘Disruptive Technologies’: some heretical thoughts”
Dr Panos Vlachopoulos
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1BLWJL5
“Book Review: Educational Innovations and Contemporary Technologies”
David Hopkins
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1e37MUM
“Journal of Media Enhanced Learning”
Andrew Middleton
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1KUJnf5
“Event report: M25 Learning Technology Group meeting (March 2015)”
Colin Laughlin, Julie Voce, Leo Havemann, Sonja Grussendorf
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1cIlCuZ
“The View from the Air”
Dr Dan Faux and Andrew Sparkes
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1HvNOJP
“A word with Bob Harrison”
Bob Harrison
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1KnukKu
We welcome articles, comment, reviews, project news and advertising enquiries. For more information on how to submit an article to the Newsletter go to http://go.alt.ac.uk/1EMDSy6
10. Current articles from our peer-reviewed Open Access journal Research in Learning Technology
The journal website is at: http://go.alt.ac.uk/RLT_Journal
"Just-in-time research: a call to arms for research into mobile technologies in higher education "
Lucie Byrne-Davis, Hilary Dexter, Jo Hart, Tim Cappelli, Ged Byrne, Ian Sampson, Jane Mooney, Colin Lumsden
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v23.25653
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1Ph7jfr
“I finally felt like I had power’: student agency and voice in an online and classroom-based role-play simulation”
A. Rector-Aranda and M. Raider-Roth
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v23.25569
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1GKru2s
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