Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news digest 122, 10 January 2007
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1. Association news: Email lists, vacancies, ALT-J
2. Association events: Workshop on research papers
3. News: UKERNA, RAE, Futurelab and more
4. Calls for papers: two calls
5. Other events: four events
6. Invitations to tender: Becta and JISC
7. Vacancies: two vacancies
1. Association news
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1.3 The Association for Learning Technology Journal (ALT-J)
Final reminder for articles for issues 15.2 (July 07) or 15.3 (November
07) of ALT-J. If you want to submit something that could potentially be
published before the RAE cut-off point, then you need to submit your
paper no later than end January 07. For authors' guidelines please see:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/caltauth.asp
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
The submission form has changed since last year; be sure to 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 Publishing research in learning technology
A one-day workshop
Date: Tuesday 17 April 2007, 10:30 - 16:00
Venue: Oxford or London (tbc)
Presenters: Martin Oliver and Jane Seale, ALT-J Editors
Advance notice of this useful workshop for all interested in publishing
research in learning technology.
More information will follow shortly on http://www.alt.ac.uk/events.php
3. News
3.1 New UK Voice Advisory Service from UKERNA
The service will offer wide ranging and vendor-independent advice on all
aspects relating to the technologies and implementation of Voice over IP
(VoIP) and IP Telephony. The advisory service is free of charge for
JANET customers. The VAS will also support the JANET voice collaboration
service. To make an enquiry contact JANET Service Desk (JSD) by e-mail:
[log in to unmask] or telephone 0870 850 2212 with your questions, and
quote the VAS service.
http://www.ja.net/vas/
3.2 UK RAE 2008 data collection system released
http://www.rae.ac.uk/news/2007/final.htm
3.3 Futurelab Call for ideas: Innovative Tools for Future Teaching
...with up to £100,000 investment and support available to develop your
idea. Plus a blog called FLUX, for debate and discussion of innovation
and education. Call opens 22 January 2007 and closes 2 March 2007.
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/your_ideas
3.4 US ACLS Cyberinfrastructure report released "Our Cultural
Commonwealth: The final report of the American Council of Learned
Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities &
Social Sciences" was released in December. Print and digital copies may
be obtained at no charge from http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/
3.5 Sloan-C View January issue now available
http://www.sloan-c.org
3.5 Resource on 19th century Britain
New resource makes freely available all British census reports from the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from 1800 up to the Second
World War; almost 200,000 pages of digitised reports and data.
http://www.histpop.org/
4. Calls for papers
4.1 SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE TURKISH ONLINE JOURNAL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
(TOJDE)
ISSN: 1302-6488; Vol. 8, No. 3
Topic: "Web 2.0 and Social Software in Distance Education"
Article submission deadline: April 1, 2007.
Publication of Special Issue: July 1, 2007
http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/callfp.html
4.2 Fifth annual e-learning@greenwich/ Conference
Theme: Designing for learning
4 July 2007, Greenwich Maritime Naval College, Greenwich University
http://www.gre.ac.uk/e-conference
5. Other events
5.1 EU Conference on Scientific Publishing
15-16 February 2007
This event is expected to influence future EU policy on the issues
raised in the EU Study on Scientific Publishing published in 2006.
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3459
5.2 5th Illinois Online Conference for Teaching and Learning:
Innovation, Education, Technology and You
Online on February 14, 15, 16, 2007
http://www.ilonlineconf.org/index.cfm?page=listpre
5.3 JISC Conference 2007 - Supporting Education and Research
Tuesday 13 March 2007, ICC, Birmingham, UK
Keynote speakers: David Eastwood (Chief Executive, Higher Education
Funding Council England)and Tom Loosemore (Project Director, BBC 2.0).
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/conference2007
5.4 JISC/BL/DPC Workshop: E-Journal Archiving and Preservation
27 March 2007, British Library Conference Centre, London
The workshop will feature a number of current leading e-journal
archiving initiatives, focusing on licensing terms and business models.
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/events/0703ejournalwkshop.html
6. Invitations to tender
6.1 Becta invites tenders for the production of its TechNews service.
TechNews is a technology, news and analysis service aimed at those in
the education sector keen to stay informed about technology
developments, trends and issues. The contract will run from March 2007
to the end March 2008 (6 issues). Pre-qualification questionnaires can
be obtained via email from: [log in to unmask] - to be completed
and returned by 15 January 2007, 5:00pm. Following evaluation of
questionnaires received, Becta will issue a copy of the invitation to
tender to selected parties by 17 January with submission of tenders on 1
February 2007.
http://www.becta.org.uk/technews
6.2 JISC ITT: Survey on the use of different forms of scholarly output
...invites proposals to undertake a survey on the use by researchers and
teachers of different forms of scholarly output. Funding of £15,000 is
available for this work (including VAT and related travel and
subsistence). The survey is expected to take 3 months to complete. The
successful bidder should expect to commence work by 5 March 2007 at the
latest and complete work by 4 June 2007. Deadline for submission: 7
February 2007, 13:00.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2007/01/survey_sc
holarly_output
7. Vacancies
7.1 Open University, UK
Instructional Designers - Learning & Teaching Solutions
Based in Milton Keynes. 2-year contract.
Salary: £32,471 - £38,772. Ref: 3340
Visit: http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment
or call: 01908 659972 (24-hour answering machine)
or e-mail LTS: [log in to unmask] quoting ref: 3340
Closing date: 29 January 2007
7.2 Department for Education & Skills, UK
Applications for the role of HEFCE Chair of the Board are now invited.
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/hefce/2006/chair/
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