Honorary Life Membership awarded to Teresa MacKinnon
During the ALT AGM 2020 on Wednesday 24 June, Teresa MacKinnon was awarded Honorary Life Membership of ALT for her outstanding contribution to the ALT community. You can read more here: https://go.alt.ac.uk/37Y9rbU
ALT 2020 Online Summer Summit Supporters
We are pleased to announce the sponsors we have confirmed so far, for the ALT Online Summer Summit 2020. Blackboard, Vevox, Inspera Assessment, and Wiseflow are all supporting the event. Further sponsorship packages are available. We offer Member organisations a discount on all sponsorship packages, including Headline Sponsor, Strategic Sponsor, and Session Sponsor. Find out more https://go.alt.ac.uk/2Y1Sp86
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2. News, events, courses and calls for proposals
Learning technologists' perspectives on online transitioning for learning, teaching and assessment in UK universities.
Researchers at the University of Bristol are running a survey to understand how learning technologists working in UK universities are experiencing and responding to the various challenges thrown up by the COVID-19 pandemic - specifically a turn by many universities towards (full/fuller) online provision of learning, teaching and assessment for the next academic year. The survey is open for a two-week period and until Friday 3 July (5pm). It will feed into a written report for the Association. Please access the survey here: https://go.alt.ac.uk/38hbnML
The Usborne Foundation celebrates online reading game reaching more than 20 million children worldwide
Charitable organisation, The Usborne Foundation, announces that Teach Your Monster to Read, a series of three free online reading games to help young learners further develop their reading skills, has reached more than 20 million children worldwide and has been played 200 million times!
With children across the world learning at home due to Covid-19, and parents looking for additional resources to support home learning and encourage children to read during the lockdown, Teach Your Monster to Read has attracted record levels of users since the outbreak. https://go.alt.ac.uk/2VhNJuu
Call for chapters: Designing Courses with Digital Technologies: Evidence and Examples by and for Higher Education Instructors
Higher education is currently undergoing a digital transformation. As most higher education institutions are integrating digital technologies, instructors need guidance. In this book, to be published by Routledge, instructors from around the world, representing different subject disciplines, will write short chapters with concrete examples of how they use digital technologies to support teaching and learning informed by evidence. The book will be written by and for instructors. https://go.alt.ac.uk/30MLdQf
UEL Learning and Teaching Symposium 2020: Advancing Futures in HE | Call for Proposals closes 10th July at 5pm
The University of East London is hosting our annual Learning and Teaching Symposium on 17th September online. We have 2 great speakers, Dr Naomi Winstone and Simon Thomson.
This year the conference has four main themes:
- Equity, equality and inclusion
- Employability and digital skills
- Pedagogies
- Retention and Progression
We are now inviting abstracts for submissions in the following categories:
- A 15-minute research-based or practice-based presentation, which must be interactive, purposeful and practical, with at least one clear take-home message.
- A poster presentation.
Please submit a proposal and register: https://uelteaching.com/symposium/
Welcome Week and Beyond - a showcase of great practice
Welcoming students, new and returning, offering engaging and authentic ways to support and manage transition, wellbeing and study via digital workbooks, need not be an ambition resigned to the pedagogical wishlist. These practices are already a reality for a PebblePad community which continues to blaze new trails in how learning, teaching, tutoring and assessment is designed and delivered.
With many of these practices not just becoming more relevant, but essential in light of the 'new normal', our free 60-minute webinar will share ten diverse examples of this trailblazing practice from across the globe. Register to attend or for the recording https://hubs.ly/H0rHWT00
Teaching with Wikipedia - a practical 'how to' workshop
Too often Wikipedia is framed as something to be avoided, to be "consumed at your peril". When really we should flip this, and see Wikipedia as learning technology; something staff & students can positively contribute to, improving global understanding on the most public of digital platforms as active & engaged digital citizens.
Demystifying the process behind such assignments, attendees will learn practical steps to uncover how assignments can be conducted in their own field (with optional How to Edit Wikipedia training workshop at 2-3pm). https://go.alt.ac.uk/3hJs73w
Dates and times below:
- Wed 1st July (12-1pm)
- Wed 15th July (12-1pm)
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3. Jobs
Members Directory: a directory of consultants and commercial services, connecting those who have expertise with those who need additional input. You can add yourself to the directory here and access the full list here.
NEW - The University of Lincoln - Digital Education Developer
Digital Education
Ref: LALT0009B
From £28,331 per annum
Full time
Closing date: 15 July 2020
Informal enquiries to [log in to unmask]
https://go.alt.ac.uk/37Z3prz
NEW - University of Glasgow - Learning Technology Specialist
Information Services
Ref: 038542
£35,845 - £40,322 per annum.
Full time
Closing date: 02 July 2020
Informal enquiries to Neeraj Bhardwaj [log in to unmask]
https://go.alt.ac.uk/380nwFA
NEW - Solent University - Instructional Designer
Learning Technologies
Ref: 11251
£33,797 - £39,152
Full time, Permanent
Closing date: 01 July 2020
Informal enquiries to [log in to unmask]
https://go.alt.ac.uk/2Bapx67
Save the Children UK - Freelance Learning Technologist (Education in Emergencies)
Humanitarian Capacity Building
£37,000 - £42,000
Full time, Part time, Temporary
Closing date: 03 July 2020
Informal enquiries to James Maltby ([log in to unmask])
https://bit.ly/3hJwdsp
University of East Anglia - Learning Technologist
IT and Computing Service
Ref: ALC1007
£33,797 to £40,322 per annum
Full time, Temporary
Closing date: 02 July 2020
Informal enquiries to Alicia McConnell ([log in to unmask])
https://go.alt.ac.uk/2MYEgDF
Uniwise - Support Consultant
UNIwise, Manchester
Pending
Full time
Closing date: 20 July 2020
Informal enquiries to [log in to unmask]
https://go.alt.ac.uk/2MrZycH
University of Glasgow - Learning Technology Specialist
College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences
Ref: 038563
£35,845 - £40,322
Full time, Permanent
Closing date: 02 July 2020
Informal enquiries to [log in to unmask]
https://go.alt.ac.uk/36Zlc15
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4. New publications from #altc blog and Research in Learning Technology
- NEW - Factors influencing teachers’ utilisation of ICT: the role of in-service training courses and access
Azam Esfijani, Bibi Eshrat Zamani - https://go.alt.ac.uk/38blR0j
- ‘This is two different worlds, you have the asylum world and you have the study world’: an exploration of refugee participation in online Irish higher education
Orna Farrell, James Brunton, Eamon Costello, Lorraine Delaney, Mark Brown, Colum Foley - https://go.alt.ac.uk/3gV7DUW
- Peer-graded individualised student homework in a single-instructor undergraduate engineering course
Olivier Cleynen, Germán Santa-Maria, Mathias Magdowski, Dominique Thévenin - https://go.alt.ac.uk/3dQJtIU
- Co-creation of knowledge using mobile technologies and digital media as pedagogical devices in undergraduate STEM education
Jorge Reyna, Peter Meier - https://go.alt.ac.uk/2y1Rtrn
- EDITORIAL: Special collection on mobile mixed reality 2019 update
Thomas Cochrane, Vickel Narayan, James Birt - https://go.alt.ac.uk/2LqRkRr
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