Association for Learning Technology Fortnightly news digest 203, issued 11 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 25 June, is 22 June 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. Funding calls 5. Calls for papers/speakers 6. Other events – some with close deadlines 7. Vacancies 8. Current ALT Online Newsletter – links to articles 9. 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 ALT Policy Board meeting – 18 June 2010, at LSE in London. The Policy Board is a meeting for representative of our organisational and sponsoring members. * Theme: 'Technology in Learning and Teaching, an Enabler or a Tax?'; * Speakers include: Scott Anderberg, Director of eLearning Solutions, Pearson eCollege; Professor Dame Wendy Hall, FRS FREng, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, Professor Janet Hartley, Pro-Director, Teaching and Learning, LSE; Sarah Jones, Chief Executive of Ufi/learndirect; Terry Mayes, Emeritus Professor and past Head of Academic Practice at Glasgow Caledonian University; Sir Tim O’Shea, Principal of the University of Edinburgh and Chair of JISC; Ewart Wooldridge CBE, Chief Executive of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. The booking deadline has now passed, and joining instructions have been issued. We will do our best to accommodate late bookings (up to close of business on Tuesday 15 June). To make a late booking please call the ALT Office on 01865 484125. 1.3 CMALT Development Group formed A new grouping of Certified Members of ALT, the CMALT Development Group (CDG) has now been formed. Its founding members are Kirsten Thompson, Dean Sheetz, and Tom Franklin. The CDG will take an active part in the development of CMALT and in directing activities for the CMALT community. The CDG can be contacted via [log in to unmask] . For more information about the CDG and its members, go to http://repository.alt.ac.uk/772/ 1.4 The ALT Video in Education Special Interest Group (ViE SIG) was established in February 2010. The remit of this SIG is to identify and share up-to-date information and guidance on: * institution-wide best practice for the management of digital resources, and the integration with external electronic repositories; * sound pedagogical principles in designing video materials for educational purposes; * guidance on issues concerning copyright and IPR, practical guidance on addressing accessibility and usability criteria with reference to DDA. The SIG officers are Phil Tubman (Lancaster University), Clive Young (UCL) and John Conway (Imperial College London). The SIG’s wiki is at http://alt-vie-sig.wikispaces.com/. ALT’s other SIGs are described at http://www.alt.ac.uk/sigs.html 1.5 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. 1.6 ALT Awards 1.6.1 Jorum Learning & Teaching Competition 2010. This year the Jorum Learning & Teaching Competition will again run in conjunction with ALT-C. The panel of judges will be looking for exciting, innovative learning and teaching resources that have been created under a Creative Commons licence to showcase at the conference. The overall winners will be presented with their prizes during the Wednesday Gala dinner on 8 September. See http://tinyurl.com/2wh42et [31 kB PDF] Closing date: 25 June 2010. 1.6.2 ALT/Epiguem Award for the Most Effective Use of Video 2010This 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. 1.7 ALT sponsoring member Google's Engineering University Programme for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa connects Google engineering with students and academics ensuring that new and existing opportunities for collaboration are recognized, supported and grown. To find out more, visit http://www.google.com/university/emea/index.html# 1.8 The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has announced that computer based assessments will be central to its revised qualification, due to be launched in July 2010. The AAT has been using ALT sponsoring member BTL’s Surpass e-Assessment solution to deliver exams for a while now, whilst also offering the option of a paper based exam. See http://www.btl.com/news 1.9 On 16 June ALT sponsoring member Wimba will host an “online study break” as part of the Higher Education Academy Information and Computer Science Subject Centre’s ExAEF project. The ExAEF project, funded by the HEA, is principally concerned with evaluating the role of formative audio. For more information go to http://tinyurl.com/36lng5q 1.10 ALT sponsoring member Blackboard has won a CODiE award for K-12 education. See http://tinyurl.com/3yrctyr 2. Association events 2.1 ALT/eLN free lunchtime webinar: *The Science of Learning* 22 June 2010, 12 midday. The purpose of this webinar will be to explore what we really know about how people learn. What can we conclude from decades of research into learning psychology and through more recent discoveries in neuroscience? What are the implications of what we now know? What is solid and dependable and what is mere 'pop psychology'?. Donald Clark and Richard Cox will share their own views on this controversial topic and provide you with the opportunity to join the debate. Clive Shepherd will act as host for a discussion in which you are very welcome to contribute. http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=369 2.2 Further 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 2.3 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 3.5 The University of Leicester’s Beyond Distance Research Alliance has a new Master’s in Innovative Education and Training at, by collaborative distance learning, starting October 2010. See http://tinyurl.com/35n2kpm. 3.6 SABIP report entitled The Economics of Copyright and Digitisation: A Report on the Literature and the Need for Further Research. An executive summary is available to download at http://www.sabip.org.uk/economics-executivesummary.pdf The full report is also available to download at http://www.sabip.org.uk/economics-finalreport.pdf. You can provide SABIP with feedback on the report via http://www.sabip.org.uk/home/forums.htm 3.7 University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) and The Learning Edge Europe have announced a partnership that will enable educational institutions across the United Kingdom to access a securely hosted EQUELLA/Moodle environment. EQUELLA is a digital repository for learning objects, research and copyrighted materials; other uses include streamed content, exam papers, media collections and theses. Read more at http://bit.ly/ULCCTLEE 4. Funding calls 4.1 JISC Grant 06/10: Higher Education Academy/JISC Open Educational Resources Programme Phase 2. The Higher Education Academy and JISC invites the submission of funding proposals for projects in the following areas linked to Open Educational Resources: * A(i): OER release meeting sector needs - projects committing to release a substantial amount of content in the indicated areas. £2,000,000 (one year projects of up to £250,000); * A(iii): Cascade support in the release of OER - teams already releasing OER sustainably working with one or more partners to support those new to OER release. £525,000 (one year projects of up to £75,000); * C(i): Collections of OER based around a thematic area - projects identifying, collecting and promoting collections of OER and other material around a common theme. £600,000 (1 year projects of up to £75,000). Closing deadline: 12.00 noon on 24 June. For more information go to http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2010/04/grant0610.aspx. 4.2 Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) Subject Development Fund grants -up to £3,500 Proposals for funding are available at http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/development-fund/general.php Submission deadline for applications: 30 June 2010. 5.Calls for papers/speakers 5.1 ascilite 2010 conference - call for full and concise papers, posters, symposium and workshops for exploring the theme Curriculum, technology & transformation for an unknown future. For more information about the ascilite 2010 Conference visit: http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney10/index.htm 5.2 Vitae researcher development conference 2010: realising the potential of researchers, 6 – 7 September 2010 Call for programme content, see http://tinyurl.com/3y3zbwx 5.3 Second Global Congress on Intelligent Systems (GCIS 2010)16-17 December 2010, Wuhan, China. See http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/GCIS/2010 and Second World Congress on Software Engineering (WCSE 2010)19-20 December 2010, Wuhan, China. See http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/WCSE/2010 In addition to research papers, both conferences also encourages companies and institutions to showcase their modern products and equipment in the conference area. Email inquiries to: [log in to unmask] (for GCIS 2010) or [log in to unmask] (for WCSE 2010).Submission deadline (extended): 15 July 2010 5.4 eAssessment Scotland 2010 - Marking the Decade, 3 September 2010, University of Dundee. Pre-registration and Call for Presentations/Workshops, see http://www.e-assessment-scotland.org 6. Other events 6.1 Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement in e-Learning Conference, 2 July 2010, Fielder Centre, University of Hertfordshire. See http://tinyurl.com/37w8f8f 6.2 5th European LAMS & Learning Design Conference 15 July 2010, Wolfson College, Oxford (followed with a Design Bash, 16 July, 2010). Co-hosted and sponsored by JISC and CETIS the focus of the 2010 European Conference is - Sharing Great Ideas. See: http://lams2010.lamsfoundation.org/index.htm 6.3 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science (CACS 2010)4 - 6 December 2010, Singapore. See http://irast.org/conferences/CACS/2010 6.4 ALT organisational member eLN is running its an annual showcase event on 9 July. For full details go to http://www.elearningnetwork.org/events/eln-members-showcase 7. Vacancies 7.1 Institute of Education London Knowledge Lab Learning Technology Fellow Ref: 7PR-CP-2933 Part-time (0.5 FTE) Salary: £29,854 - £35,647 (plus £2,323 London Allowance) (pro-rata) Informal enquiries to: [log in to unmask] See http://jobs.ioe.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=7PR-CP-2933 Closing date: 15 June 2010 7.2 The University of Northampton Information Services Two vacancies for Learning Technologists Ref: YN09116 Salary: £24,273 -- £29,853 per annum For an information pack visit www.northampton.ac.uk/about/jobs or email: [log in to unmask] Closing date: 25 June 2010; Interview Date: 22 July 2010 8.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 9. 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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