Association for Learning Technology Fortnightly news digest 121, 21 December 2006 Last of the year and plenty of calls to keep you busy over the festive season! (All your editor wants for Christmas is a fun way to dispose of junk email. Someone must have invented a game that turns junk email into targets...) Please note that the ALT office will be closed for the Christmas holiday from 5pm 21 December 2006 and will reopen on 2 January 2007. In this issue: 1. Association news: Christmas donations; ALT-J; new Editors for ALT-N. 2. Association events: ALT-C 2007 call for papers. 3. News: Intellectual Property, Teaching Fellowships and Journal news. 4. Calls for papers: four calls this week. 5. Other events: five events. 6. Invitations to tender: JISC, EU, HE Academy. 7. Vacancies: one vacancy. If you forward this Digest, in whole or part, within your organisation or to another distribution list, please include the text: "[the] ALT Digest, a fortnightly publication from the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) - http://www.alt.ac.uk/." To send items for the fortnightly digest, email [log in to unmask] with the subject line "For the digest" and your _brief_ text in the body of the message (no attachments, please, and no pdf files). Deadline for the first issue of 2007 (number 122): Tuesday 16 January. Join ALT at http://www.alt.ac.uk/membership_join.html Organisational members list: http://www.alt.ac.uk/corporate_members.php 1. Association news 1.1 A warm welcome to the following organisation which has recently joined A.L.T.: King George V College http://www.kgv.ac.uk/kgv2006/ - and to all the individual members who have joined in the last fortnight. 1.2 New editors for ALT-N, our quarterly newsletter. We are delighted to announce two new Co-Editors for ALT-N, Morag Munro and Guin Glasfurd-Brown, who will take over from Susi Peacock in June 2007. Congratulations to both! 1.3 The Association for Learning Technology Journal (ALT-J) Last call for articles for issues 15.2 (July 07) and 15.3 (November 07) of ALT-J. If you are keen to submit something that could potentially be published before the RAE cut-off point, then you need to submit something to us no later than end January 07. For authors guidelines please see: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/caltauth.asp 1.4 "Meet the Editors" podcast from the ASCILITE conference. ASCILITE is our sister organisation from Australasia, and here is a link to a podcast from the conference featuring, amongst others, Graínne Conole, co-editor of the ALT Journal. http://ascilite.edublogs.org/2006/12/13/meet-the-editors/ 1.5 ALT and JISC infoNet - Christmas Charitable Donations Thank to all who have donated to the fund We will be sending money to Oxfam for teacher training and teaching equipment. As one last donation is expected shortly, we will tell you the final amount raised (and what we spent it on) in January. 1.6 Recruiting in the new year? Make sure your Human Resources Department emails details of all your learning technology vacancies to [log in to unmask] with the subject: "For the digest - vacancies". 2. Association events 2.1 ALT-C 2007: Beyond control Learning technology for the social network generation 4-6 September 2007, Nottingham, UK http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007 Submissions opened on 8 December. Read the guidelines at http://www.alt.ac.uk/guidelines_papers.html Please remind colleagues of these key dates: Research papers close: 14 February 2007 Other streams close: 28 February 2007 Presenters’ registration deadline: 8 June 2007 Earlybird registration deadline: 29 June 2007 2.2 Bidding and winning workshop As the January workshop is already full, we have a waiting list for another date - add your details here: http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=228 3. News 3.1 UK Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/ybduve Actual site: http://www.hm- treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/independent_reviews_index.cfm The JISC response to the Review: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2006/12/news_gowers.aspx 3.2 UK National Teaching Fellowship Awards 2007: now open for applications. http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/NTFSindividual_application%20pack.htm 3.3 Journal banding survey The Centre for the Study of Research Training & Impact (SORTI) at the University of Newcastle is working on a ‘journal banding’ project. The intent of the project is to assist educational researchers in preparing submissions in the context of the assessment of research quality and professional impact as part of the Research Quality Framework (RQF). Contribute your views at http://www.newcastle.edu.au/forms/bandingsurvey 3.4 Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (JUTLP) Volume 3, Issue 2 now available at: http://jutlp.uow.edu.au/ Submissions for the next general issue are open. 3.5 Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN) Volume 10, Issue 4 can be found at http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/index.asp A limited number of print copies are available for subscriptions: https://secured.sloanconsortium.org/JALN-orders/ For more information on Membership of Sloan-C go to http://www.sloan-c.org 3.6 Epic thinking: issue 59, December 2006 ALT Sponsoring Member Epic plc's December Newsletter has just been published, including a report from Online Educa, and an assessment of Moodle. http://www.epic.co.uk/content/news/dec_06/index.htm 4. Calls for papers 4.1 The Journal of Learning Design Call for articles for Volume 2, Number 1; deadline: 1 March 2007. http://www.jld.qut.edu.au 4.2 HERDSA 2007 Conference: Enhancing Higher Education, Theory and Scholarship 8-11 July 2007, Adelaide, Australia http://conference.herdsa.org.au/2007 Call for papers deadline: 23 March 2007 4.3 3rd Irish MoodleMoot 2007 Abstracts should be submitted via Moodle - enrol at http://www.moodlemoot.ie/course/view.php?id=3 If this is not possible please contact [log in to unmask] Closing date for abstracts: 19 January 2007 4.4 11th International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference: Research into e-Assessment 10-11 July 2007, Loughborough University, UK http://www.caaconference.com/ 5. Other events 5.1 2007 BDRA Learning Futures Conference 9-10 January 2007, University of Leicester http://www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance email: [log in to unmask] 5.2 iLearning Forum Paris 2007 30-31 January 2007, "Palais des Congrès de Paris" Preconference workshops for experts and beginners: 29 January. http://www.ilearnforum.eu 5.3 The Changing Faces of Learning: 1-day conference on education and training 1 February 2007, Telford, Shropshire. http://www.learninglab.org.uk 5.4 INTED 2007: International Technology, Education and Development Conference 7-9 March 2007, Valencia, Spain. http://www.iated.org email: [log in to unmask] 5.5 4th Education in a Changing Environment Conference 12-14 September 2007, University of Salford, Greater Manchester. http://www.ece.salford.ac.uk/ 6. Invitations to tender 6.1 JISC ITT: Tender for a consultant/s to conduct a review of the management of technology-rich, open plan learning and teaching spaces in UK HE and FE as part of the JISC e-Learning Programme. Tenders deadline: 12 noon 15 January 2007. Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/ymgbhy Actual site: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2006/12/funding_r eview_learning_spaces.aspx 6.2 Higher Education Academy/JISC: Call for Expressions of Interest in Phase 2 Benchmarking. ...invites expressions of interest from institutions providing higher education to participate in Phase 2 of the Higher Education Academy/JISC Benchmarking of e-Learning Exercise. http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/benchmarking.htm 6.3 EU Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013 The Lifelong Learning programme applies to all types and levels of education and vocational education and training. The main deadlines are: - Erasmus University Charter - 28 February 2007; - Jean Monnet programme - 15 March 2007; - Comenius, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Grundtvig - 30 March 2007; - Transversal Programme and Accompanying Measures - 30 April 2007. http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/newprog/index_en.html 7. Vacancies 7.1 Manchester Metropolitan University Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Learning Technologies Salary: £25,083 - £38,647 Ref: JC/125 Closing date: 5 January 2007 http://www.jobs.mmu.ac.uk -- The digest returns on 19 January 2006. All news, jobs, events, etc, to [log in to unmask] by Tuesday 16 January, please. Regards Rhonda Disclaimer: Whilst every care is taken to provide accurate information in compiling this digest, ALT cannot vouch for the accuracy of information provided on other web sites to which the digest links, and opinions expressed on those sites should not be construed to be those of ALT. -- Rhonda Riachi, Director Association for Learning Technology Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1865 484125 Fax: +44 (0)1865 484165 Email: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.alt.ac.uk/ Registered Charity Number: 1063519 ALT-C 2007: 4-6 September, Nottingham, England http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007 ALT's email response policy: http://www.alt.ac.uk/contact.html#Email