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Association for Learning Technology Fortnightly news digest 204, issued 28 June 2010 Submitting Digest items. To send items for the fortnightly Digest, email [log in to unmask] with the subject line “For the Digest” and your brief text – four or five lines is about the maximum - in the body of the message (no attachments, please, and no pdf files: hyperlinks welcome). For job vacancies, please note the formatting instructions at the bottom of this issue of the digest. The copy deadline for the next issue, due on 17 July, is 13 July 2010. * Join ALT at http://www.alt.ac.uk/membership_join.html * New summary of ALT membership rights and entitlements: http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/membership_at_a_glance_2010_v2.pdf * Sponsoring and organisational members’ list: http://www.alt.ac.uk/corporate_members.php * ALT on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ClipsFromALT ALT on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/A_L_T Table of contents 1. Association news 2. Association events 3. News 4. Calls for papers/speakers 5. Other events – some with close deadlines 6. Vacancies 7. Current ALT Online Newsletter – links to articles 8. Current issue (18:1) of the ALT Journal – Research in Learning Technology 1. Association news 1.1 We welcome Microsoft as a sponsoring member of ALT, and the University of Glasgow and the Centre for Distance Education at the University of London as new Organisational Members. 1.2 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 newly 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. 1.3 ALT/Epiguem Award - for the Most Effective Use of Video 2010. This year the ALT/Epigeum video award will again run in conjunction with ALT-C. The purpose of this award is to give credit to those practitioners who are exploiting video to enhance learning. The overall winners will be presented with their prizes during the Wednesday Gala dinner on 8 September. For more details see http://tinyurl.com/32vg8mz(31 kB PDF). To enter please complete the online submission form: http://tinyurl.com/2vj33cu. Closing date: 2 July 2010. 1.4 Nine "What research has to say for practice" guides, implemented in editable wiki format, are now on line at http://wiki.alt.ac.uk/index.php/What_research_has_to_say_for_practice We are very grateful to Becta, Eduserv, and the Higher Education Academy for their support in funding the production of these guides and their subsequent updating. 2. Association events 2.1 ALT/eLN free lunchtime webinars – dates for your diary, with further details to follow: * 2 August 2010 - How to Run a Virtual Classroom Session * 14 October 2010 - Shooting Video for eLearning * 6 December 2010 - Learning in 2020 2.2 ALT-C 2010: "Into something rich and strange" – making sense of the sea-change. 7-9 September 2010, University of Nottingham. Keynote speakers * Barbara Wasson, Professor of Pedagogical Information Science at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway; * Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University; * Donald Clark, Board Member of Ufi, and former CEO of Epic Group plc. Confirmed Invited Speakers include: Hans-Peter Baumeister; Heather Fry; Martin Hall; Frank McLoughlin; Aaron Porter; Josie Taylor; David White. To book online go to http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2010/registering.html. Substantial discounts on conference fees are available for ALT members, and an additional "early bird" discount is available until 5 July 2010. 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 The June 2010 issue of SURF magazine (the magazine for ICT in higher education and research) is available at http://www.surf.nl/en/OverSURF/Publicaties/Documents/SURF02_2010_UK.pdf 3.4 Media in Education June Newsletter (aimed at people actively engaged in promoting excellence in the use of media in education and is linked to the annual MEDEA Awards). See http://www.media-in-education.net/june-2010 4. Calls for papers/speakers 4.1 Call for Papers - IADIS International Conference on International Higher Education 2010, 29-1 November/December 2010, Perth, Australia. See http://www.ihe-conf.org/ Submission deadline: 19 July 2010 (first call extension) 4.2 The Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, is seeking contributions to its forthcoming special issue on Quality in e-Learning. To submit, please contact the guest editors: Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, University of Augsburg (Germany): [log in to unmask] José-Ramón Hilera, University of Alcalá (Spain): [log in to unmask] See http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0266-4909&site=1 4.3 Call for Papers - Open Access to Science Information: Trends, Models and Strategies for Libraries - IFLA Satellite pre-conference, Sections: Science and Technology Libraries, Health and Biosciences Libraries, 6-8 August 2010, Chania, Crete, Greece. See http://www.ifla-sat-chania.com/ 5. Other events 5.1 Gaining business intelligence from user activity data – JISC Workshop, 14 July, 2010, Hatton Garden, London. Register online at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2010/07/businessintelligence.aspx 5.2 UCISA User Support Conference 2010, 20-22 July 2010, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford. See http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/ssg/Events/2010/usersupport.aspx 5.3 RunCoCo/Culturenet Cymru workshop: How to Run a Community Collection Online, 27 July 2010, National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. See http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/events/27July/index.html 5.4 AMEE Meeting: e-learning in the healthcare professions.4-5 September 2010, University of Glasgow. See http://www.amee.org/ 5.5 FOTE10, University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) 3rd Future of Technology in Education (FOTE) conference, 1 October 2010, University of London’s, Senate House. See http://fote-conference.com/ 6. Vacancies 6.1 University of Oxford MSD-Learning Technologies, Medical Sciences Division Educational technologist Salary Grade 7: £28,983 - £35,646 Full time Informal enquiries to Damion Young, Tel: 01865 282756 See http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/ Closing date: 2 July 2010 6.2 University of Bolton Institute for Educational Cybernetics PhD Studentship, Learning Design Salary: Stipend 15K, Full time Informal enquiries to Dr. Dai Griffiths: [log in to unmask] See http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABG495/phd-studentship Closing date: 5 July 2010 6.3 University of Leicester Beyond Distance Research Alliance Lecturer in Innovative Education Ref no. SSC00106 Salary: £35,646 to £43,840 Full-time, 2-year fixed-term contract Informal enquiries to Gilly Salmon: [log in to unmask] See http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABG494/lecturer-in-innovative-education/ Closing date: 12 July 2010 6.4 University of Wisconsin-Madison eLearning Applications Specialist. Division of Information Technology's (DoIT) Learning Technology and Distance Education (LTDE) Ref: 64827 Full time salary rate: $38,000 (min) (12 months) See http://ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_064827.html Closing date: 15 July 2010 7.Current ALT Online Newsletter – links to individual articles: OER 2010: Exploring OER Content, Design and Communities, by Theo Lynn and Neil Bruton - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/1w5onztob68 Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference 2010, by Leo Havemann and Mimi Weiss Johnson - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/b9r0mrk4by6 Telling Stories at ELI2010: the Educause Learning Initiative 2010 conference, Texas, by Jackie Carter - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/1jlqks66l2e MoodleMoot UK 2010, by Jessica Gramp, http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/1bv5z40d42p MEC 2010: Celebrating 30 Years of Sharing Learning Technology Experience and Expertise, by Theo Lynn, Neil Bruton and Kieran Linehan - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/ih9g8clv7j8 Innovative Teaching and Learning Research - Studying Changing Teaching Practices and Students' 21C Competencies, by Maria Langworthy - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/1tnyr31omrs Confederation of Open Access Repositories Inaugural General Assembly, March 2010, by Neil Jacobs of JISC - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/1st4bgagk94 Using a departmental blog with post-16 Health Sciences students, by Keith Shaw – http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/lava3738nfe Online Learning – a Guide for Associations, by Louella Morton and Brendan Noud of WBT Systems - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/tlkmxp2yhhu Action Research as a key to stimulating Innovation and Professional Development in ILT, by John Webber - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/7h1dewbzfqg Amplified staff development, by Jennifer Jones, Joanne Badge, Stuart Johnson and Alan Cann - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/if3lujbvuml 8. Current issue of ALT J – Research in Learning Technology - article links The current issue of the ALT Journal - Research in Learning Technology, Volume 18 Issue 1, 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. If you cannot access the Journal online, this is something we may be able to help you fix). Table of contents http://www.tinyurls.co.uk/F1747 Editorial - “The implication of context in applying learning technologies” by Frances Bell DOI: 10.1080/09687761003741335 http://tinyurl.com/2dskgc5 Article – “On designing a pervasive mobile learning platform” by Teemu H. Laine, Mikko Vinni, Carolina Islas Sedano and Mike Joy DOI: 10.1080/09687761003657606 http://tinyurl.com/2b43cze Article – “Medical students’ perceptions of video-linked lectures and video-streaming” by RuoLan Wang, Karen Mattick and Elisabeth Dunne DOI: 10.1080/09687761003657622 http://tinyurl.com/23w3hv8 Article – “Typing compared with handwriting for essay examinations at university: letting the students choose” by Nora Mogey, Jessie Paterson, John Burk and Michael Purcell DOI: 10.1080/09687761003657580 http://tinyurl.com/28rnxw4 Article – “Blended learning in Saudi universities: challenges and perspectives” by Reem Alebaikan and Salah Troudi DOI: 10.1080/09687761003657614 http://tinyurl.com/2dbvrok Article – “Self-regulation across time of first-generation online learners”, by Lucy Barnard-Brak, Valerie Osland Paton and William Y. Lan DOI: 10.1080/09687761003657572 http://tinyurl.com/29elhje Article – “Effective e-learning? 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