Association for Learning Technology - Weekly News Digest 352, 08 April 2016
Submit your news at http://go.alt.ac.uk/ALT-Digest, deadline 5pm on Wednesdays.
Table of Contents
1. News from ALT
2. ALT and ALT member events
3. News
4. Events
5. Calls for proposals
6. Job vacancies
7. #altc blog
8. Research in Learning Technology
1. News from ALT
1.1 New Editors for Research in Learning Technology
Following an open call issued in December 2015, we are now pleased to welcome new Editors for Research in Learning Technology:
Professor Lesley Diack, Robert Gordon University, UK;
Professor Amanda Jefferies, University of Hertfordshire, UK;
Dr Fiona Smart, Edinburgh Napier University, UK;
Associate Professor Gail Wilson, Southern Cross University, Australia.
Find out more at http://go.alt.ac.uk/1V1qvUw
2. ALT and ALT Member Events
2.1 Last chance to book for OER16: Open Culture, Edinburgh, 19-20 April 2016
The 7th Open Educational Resources Conference, OER16: Open Culture, will be held on the 19th-20th April 2015 at the University of Edinburgh. Chaired by Melissa Highton and Lorna Campbell.
Register now at http://go.alt.ac.uk/OER16-Registration
More information at https://oer16.oerconf.org/
2.2 FELTAG SIG webinar: Summary of Skills Funding Agency actions from the FELTAG report 12 Apr 2016 12:30 to 13:30
For this webinar organised by ALT's FELTAG Special Interest Group we welcome Stephen Nichols, Policy Implementation Manager, Skills Funding Agency who will provide a summary of Skills Funding Agency actions from the FELTAG report. http://go.alt.ac.uk/1ZvPyOi
2.3 Blended Learning Essentials: Meet up for Digital Champions at Loughborough College
15 Apr 2016 10:30 to 14:00
This face-to-face event is kindly hosted by Loughborough College and is for Digital Champions and college partners of the Blended Learning Essentials course. The event will provide an opportunity for Champions to discuss their role, how best they can continue to support the course, and to give feedback. Refreshments will be provided.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1Wg8iPs
2.4 FELTAG SIG webinar: find out about the Blended Learning Consortium, 6 May 2016 12:30 to 13:30
This webinar will give an overview of the Blended Learning Consortium. This is a group of more than 10% of UK Colleges, led by Heart of Worcestershire College, who are working together to co-develop and share high quality blended learning resources, for the sector by the sector.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1S73luQ
2.5 ALT Symposium - Learning Technology in Further and Higher Education, London, 16 May 2016 9:00 to 13:00
The context for the symposium are the major changes facing us across sectors, from area based reviews and development of apprenticeships in the Further Education system to how we demonstrate excellence in teaching and research in Higher Education. The key question we will be exploring is how policy and organisational culture can enable effective innovation in Learning Technology, innovation that goes beyond small pilots or islands of best practice. We will critically consider what common challenges (some concrete, here-and-now, some less tangible at present) we face, and how Learning Technology can help meet them.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1S1219K
3. News
3.1 JCAL special issue on learning analytics in massively multi-user virtual environments & courses. The special issue of the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL) on "Learning analytics in massively multi-user virtual environments and courses" is slated for publication shortly as Vol. 32, Issue 3 of the journal. In the meantime, the articles comprising the issue are available online through Wiley's Early View initiative. The editorial preface to the issue is at http://go.alt.ac.uk/1RtjB7m
3.2 Revised approach to quality assessment in higher education
HEFCE has today published a revised operating model for quality assessment in higher education in England. It heralds the next phase of the Quality Assessment Review initiated by DELNI, HEFCE and HEFCW in October 2014 as part of each funding body’s statutory responsibility for quality assessment in higher education http://go.alt.ac.uk/1Sj1XlH
4. Events
4.1 Jisc Change Agents’ Network Meet up for Staff and Students, University of Lincoln, 2 June 2016
Building on the success of the previous Jisc CAN face to face networking events, University of Lincoln is hosting a 1 day ‘meet up’ event for staff and students across the UK who are working in partnership on curriculum innovation projects in UK further education and skills and higher education.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1psmz1c
4.2 Digital is not the future - an LSE/UAL online hack
Dave White of UAL and Peter Bryant of the LSE have been working on developing an online hack to discuss how we as a sector can overcome the issues and tensions around technology and the institution. We have provocatively called it ‘Digital is not the future’ (that already happened). We are running an online hack for the next two weeks through Loomio and invite you and all your staff to participate. This is an unique opportunity to shape the dialogue, crowdsource a solution and contribute to a different future. #futurehappens.
More information at http://go.alt.ac.uk/1V1qTlM
Loomio: http://bit.ly/1RWSq79
4.3 Educational Technology and Education Conferences for January to June 2016
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/2362/
5. Calls for proposals
5.1 OEB 2016 – 22nd global, cross-sector conference on technology supported learning and training, November 30 – December 2, 2016, Hotel InterContinental Berlin, Germany
Contribute your stories, thinking, experiences, expertise and research: the Call for Proposals for OEB is open until June 1st, 2016!
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1XkXksP
5.2 Social Media for Learning in HE Conference - Sheffield Hallam - 16 December 2016
The call for papers is now open for this one day conference at Sheffield Hallam University on 16 December (#SocMedHE16). The second year of the conference has the theme of 'The Empowered Learner?', which will enable the sector to critically and creatively explore the role of social media in learner empowerment. Deadline for submissions is 16 May.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1VXqWhm
6. Job vacancies
6.1 University of West London
Institute for Teaching, Innovation and Learning (INSTIL)
Academic Developer in TEL
Ref: INS027
£34,844 - £42,325
Full time, Permanent
Closing date: 13 April 2016
Informal enquiries to Matt Lingard, [log in to unmask]
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1X26VEH
6.2 Loughborough University
School of Science
Learning Support Technician
REQ16180
£23,619 - £28,143
Full time
Closing date: 16 April 2016
Informal enquiries to Samantha Davis [log in to unmask]
6.3 The University of Northampton
Learning Technology
LEARNING SUPPORT ANALYST
UN1977
£20,989 - £25,023 per annum
Full time, Fixed term till 14/9/2017
Closing date: 17-04-2016
Informal enquiries to Vicky Brown [log in to unmask] 01604 893846
7. For latest posts, visit the #altc blog
https://altc.alt.ac.uk/blog/
8. For latest articles, visit Research in Learning Technology http://go.alt.ac.uk/RLT_Journal
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