Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news digest 165, issued 21 October 2008
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1. Association news
2. Association events – some with close deadlines
3. News
4. Calls for papers
5. Other events – some with close deadlines
6. Invitations to tender
7. Vacancies
8. Courses
1. Association news
1.1 ALT members discount:
ALT members are entitled to member rates for the Ascilite 2008
conference: 'Hello! Where are you in the landscape of educational
technology?' being hosted by the Institute of Teaching and Learning,
Deakin University, Melbourne Australia from 30 November to 3 December
2008. Early bird registration for the conference before or on 10
October 2008.
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/melbourne08/register.htm
2. Association events
2.1 Bidding and winning: the secrets of successful learning technology
project bids (due to popular demand)
Thursday, 27 November 2008. National College for School Leadership
(NCSL), Nottingham.
Presenters:
Jeff Haywood, Vice Principal Knowledge Management, Chief Information
Officer and Librarian at University of Edinburgh;
Seb Schmoller, Chief Executive of ALT;
Mark Stiles, Head of Learning Development and Innovation at
Staffordshire University.
Booking deadline: Thursday, 13 November, 2008
Costs: £150 members, £250 for non-members.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=316
3. News
3.1 Opening up resources for learning
To significantly increase access to educational resources across the
higher education sector HEFCE has announced an initial £5.7 million of
funding for pilot projects that will open up existing high-quality
education resources from higher education institutions to the world.
The projects will be formally launched in April 2009.
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/hefce/2008/os.htm
3.2 DIUS has recently published its Consultation Response Analysis
Report from the consultation it initiated earlier this year 'Informal
Adult Learning – Shaping the Way Ahead'. The Analysis Report is at:
http://www.dius.gov.uk/consultations/documents/IALC_Analysis_Report.pdf
together with a brief response to the consultation from DIUS at:
http://www.dius.gov.uk/consultations/documents/Response_to_IALC.pdf
ALT's own response to the original consultation is on the ALT web site
at: http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/DIUS_IAL.pdf
3.3 Roadmap of JISC Grant Funding Opportunities
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/futurecalls/grant.aspx
3.4 Trialling Collaborative Tools to Support BCE Expression of Interest
Do you collaborate with external partners in business and the
community? Are you part of a regional partnership or Lifelong Learning
Network trying to improve business and community engagement?
Do you want some areas (for example your arts and science departments)
to jointly collaborate in new ventures with a partner? Do you have an
idea about how use of an online collaborative tool could help you with
any of the above? If you have answered yes to any of the above
questions you may interested in joining a project to trial online
collaborative tools.
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/bce/collab-tools-ceoi
3.5 A century of news is now available free to educators and learners.
Over 3,000 hours of historic news footage from ITN's archive division,
ITN Source, has been made available to further and higher education
institutions in the UK, giving educators and students cost-free access
to a century of video material.
http://www.nfo.ac.uk
3.6 E-Guides – Lead by example
The free three day E-Guides programme has been refreshed for the
up-coming round and aims to increase the use of e-learning in ACL
(including Offender Learning and Skills, the Voluntary and Community
Sector and other areas). The schedule is available online at
http://www.niace.org.uk/eguides2008
3.7 International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM)
has just published its latest issue: Vol 2, No 4 (2008)
http://www.online-journals.org/index.php/i-jim
3.8 International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
Encourages research on technology enhanced learning approaches and
will deliver research articles, position papers, surveys and case
studies aiming to provide a holistic and multidisciplinary discussion
on technology enhanced learning research issues, promote the
international collaboration and exchange of ideas and know how on
technology enhanced learning and to investigate strategies on how
technology enhanced learning can promote sustainable development.
http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=246-jim
3.9 Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
e-bulletin, October 2008
http://www.llas.ac.uk/e-bulletin.aspx
3.10 Adult Learners' Week Awards 2009
Give outstanding adult learners the recognition they deserve. Online
nomination forms are available at
http://www.alw.org.uk
4. Calls for papers
4.1 2009 World Congress on Computer Science and Information
Engineering (CSIE 2009)
31 March – 2 April 2009, Los Angeles/Anaheim, USA
Extended deadline for submissions: 21 October 2008
http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CSIE/2009
4.2 1st IEEE International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for
Serious Applications 2009 (VS-GAMES'09)
23-24 March 2009, Coventry, UK
Deadline for submissions: 1 November 2008
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgvwsa09
4.3 The Centre for Work-based Learning and Education (WLE) in
conjunction with the London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG)
3rd WLE Mobile Learning Symposium: Mobile Learning Cultures across
Education, Work and Leisure
27 March 2009, London, UK
Deadline for submissions: 3 November 2008
http://symposium.londonmobilelearning.net
4.4 23rd ICDE World Conference on Open and Distance Learning
7 – 10 June 2009, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Deadline for submissions: 15 November 2008
http://www.ou.nl/icde2009
4.5 2nd Sloan-C Symposium on Emerging Technology in Online Learning
17 – 19 June 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA
The symposium is designed for experts, intermediate users and novices
interested in the ways emerging technologies are transforming
education.
Deadline for proposals: 8 December 2008.
http://www.emergingonlinelearningtechnology.org
4.6 2009 ISPIM Conference
21-24 June 2009, Vienna, Austria
Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2008
www.ispim.org/conference
4.7 5th International Conference on e-Social Science
24 - 26 June 2009, Maternushaus, Cologne, Germany
Deadline for submissions: 26 January 2009
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/
4.8 4th UK Workshop on AI in Education
9 December 2008, Cambridge, UK
Deadline for submissions: 20 October 2008
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5. Other events
5.1 One day ALPSP Seminar/workshop in association with COPE
Ensuring Research Integrity in Biomedical Publishing
22 October 2008, London, UK
http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?aid=2518
5.2 ePortfolio and Digital Identity 2008
22 – 24 October 2008, Maastricht, the Netherlands
http://events.eife-l.org/ep2008
5.3 WORLDDIDAC Basel 2008
29 – 31 October 2008, Basel, Switzerland
http://www.worlddidac.org
5.4 eLearning Alliance Annual Conference 2008
All Jock Tampson's Bairns Generations Apart – Connecting – Sharing,
Learning in NetGen
30 October 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland
http://www.elearningalliance.org
5.5 Battle of Ideas festival 2008
1 – 2 November 2008, London, UK
http://www.battleofideas.org.uk
5.6 Professional Training Facts 2008
11-12 November 2008, Stuttgart, Germany
http://www.professional-training-facts.com
5.7 Workshop: Robotics in the Curriculum
20 November 2008, Southampton, UK
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/events/eventbook.php?id=204
5.8 NIACE Conference
Employment, learning and skills for people with mental health problems
24 November 2008, Sheffield, UK
http://www.niace.org.uk/Conferences/Conferences.htm
5.9 NIACE Conference
Digital Inclusion: How do we ensure that all citizens, especially the
disadvantaged, benefit from new technologies?
27 November 2008, Nottingham, UK
http://www.niace.org.uk/conferences
5.10 NIACE Annual Autumn Policy Conference
Local Power and Adult Learning: What can adult learning do for local
government?
1 December 2008, London, UK
http://www.niace.org.uk/Conferences/Conferences.htm
5.11 Learning and Skills Research Network Conference
Practitioner Research in the learning and skills sector: Developing
professional identity and practice
4 December 2008, London, UK
http://www.niace.org.uk
5.12 Sitting on a gold mine – improving provision and services for
learners by aggregating and using learner behaviour data
Organised by ALT and hosted at JISC's Bretenham House Office in
Central London – Friday 12 December 1000 for 1030 till 1500.
The JISC TILE project has been investigating existing and potential Web
2.0 services linked to UK HE libraries. Detailed work in the areas of
'creating context' and 'enabling contribution' has suggested
opportunities for cross-institution aggregation of learner behaviour
data, potentially available from not only library but also learning and
repository systems. The TILE Project hopes that learning
technologists, librarians and others with an interest in the
aggregation and use of 'learners like me' data will join in this
workshop to explore the potential of behaviour data to enhance
provision.
A booking form and a fuller description for this workshop will be
available from http://www.alt.ac.uk/ from 1/11/2008. A briefing paper
will be issued to participants prior to the event, and an article
flowing from the event will appear in the January or April issues of
the ALT Newsletter.
For more on the TILE project see
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/resourcediscovery/tile.aspx
6. Invitations to tender and funding calls
6.1 JISC ITT: Scholarly communications discipline-based advocacy
Total funding available: £30,000
Submission deadline: 7 November 2008
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2008/10/scgadvocacy.aspx
6.2 JISC ITT: Study on the use of research content in teaching and
learning in Higher Education Institutions
Total funding available: £30,000
Submission deadline: 7 November 2008
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2008/10/scguseofresearch.aspx
6.3 JISC ITT: An Evaluation of Phase 2 of the Digital Curation Centre
Total funding available: £30,000
Submission deadline: 7 November 2008
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2008/10/dccevaluation.aspx
6.4 JISC
BCE Programme: Business Information Resources & Facilitating Open Innovation
Total funding available: £100,000
Submission deadline: 11 November 2008
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2008/10/bceinforesources.aspx
6.5 JISC
Grant Funding Call 10/08: Project to Develop an Identity Toolkit
Total funding available: £200,000
Duration of project: January 2009 for 18 months
Submission deadline: 13 November 2008
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2008/10/identitytoolkit.aspx
7. Vacancies
7.1 Imperial College Business School
Learning Technologist
Salary £37,910 – £45,990
Full-time
Closing date: 24 October 2008
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/aboutus/jobopportunities
7.2 Higher Education Academy
Enhancing Learning through Technology (ELT) and
Open Educational Content (OEC)]
Senior Adviser
£44,700 p.a. Ref: 0903
2 Year Fixed Term Contract
Full Time
Closing date: 20 October 2008
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/aboutus/vacancies
7.3 Learning and Skills Improvement Service
Facilitator roles in the eCPD Enhanced Learning Programme.
Closing date: Friday 7 November 2008
http://www.bdplearning.com/eCPD_home.html
8. Courses
8.1 NIACE Training Workshops
Goal Setting and Action Planning with Individuals and Groups: A
practical workshop
21 October 2008, Birmingham
4 November 2008, London
13 November 2008, Manchester
http://www.niace.org.uk/Conferences/TrainingCourses/actionplanning.htm
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This issue was compiled by Maren Deepwell and edited by Mark van Harmelen.
Regards
Mark van Harmelen
Director of Development
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