Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news digest 211, issued 18 October 2010 (having sat in an
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Table of Contents
1. ALT news
2. ALT events
3. News
4. Funding calls
5. Other events – some with close deadlines
6. Calls for papers
7. Vacancies
8. Most recent issue of the ALT Online Newsletter – links to articles
9. Current issue (18:2) of the ALT Journal – Research in Learning Technology
1. ALT news
1.1 Concerning the recent JISC eContent call at
http://tinyurl.com/36lfxg4, those of you considering bidding will have
seen "Partnership and Dissemination" as one of the evaluation criteria
shown on pages five and six of the call. If you want to discuss
involving ALT as a partner in a proposal, please write to me. (See also
4.1 below.)
1.2 Request for Proposals to publish the ALT Journal. We have issued a
formal Request for Proposals inviting corporate organisations and/or
teams of individuals to make proposals to ALT for the production,
publishing and distribution of the ALT journal, from 1 January 2012. The
response deadline is 15 November 2011. The full RFP is here
http://repository.alt.ac.uk/836/. Issuing the RFP is part of the process
of ensuring ALT continues to get best value from the publishing
arrangements for the journal, and that we can develop the journal in the
kinds of way members indicated in the last membership survey.
1.3 Video recordings of keynote speaker, invited speaker, and plenary
panel session at ALT-C 2010 on YouTube. Watch sessions for the first
time, or catch up on sessions you missed. We have published videos of
talks by hans-Peter Baumeister, Alex Bols, Donald Clark, Heather Fry,
Martin Hall, Frank McCloughlin, Sugata Mitra, Josie Taylor, and David
White. There is also the final panel session involving Haydn Blackey,
John Clayton, John Cook, John McCloughlin, Gilly Salmon, and Julie Voce.
We are awaiting approval from Google to publish the talk by Sudhir Giri.
1.4 Theory in Learning Technology – call for papers for a Special Issue
of Research in Learning Technology, the Journal of the Association for
Learning Technology (Volume 19, Number 3). The full call is at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/callforpapers_altj_theory.html. Full papers must be
submitted according to the journal's Instructions for Authors and via
Manuscript Central online submission system by 31 January 2011. For
other queries, and for guidance relating to the call, contact the
Special Issue Editors: Chris Jones - [log in to unmask] and Laura
Czerniewicz - [log in to unmask] Submission of abstracts for
informal feedback is encouraged: please send directly to the Special
Issue Editors before 1 December 2010.
1.5 Copyright Guidelines for Lecture Recording
This document has been written by Dr Graham McElearney, Corporate
Information and Computing Services, The University of Sheffield, as a
guide for staff wishing to use the University’s lecture recording
service. It has been published under a Creative Commons licence. See
http://repository.alt.ac.uk/819/
1.6 ALT sponsoring member HEFCE has published a report it commissioned
from the Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning team at the University of
Oxford to carry out a study of the current UK provision of higher
education-level online distance learning and to advise the Online
Learning Task Force where further work was required to increase
understanding of this sector. The report is at
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rdreports/2010/rd17_10/. David White, one of
the report's authors, spoke at ALT-C 2010, and the video of his talk is
at http://tinyurl.com/3y7xf4b on the ALT YouTube channel. Particular
institutions featured include De Montfort University, University of
Derby, Edinburgh Napier University, University of Essex, Kaplan Open
Learning, University of Leicester, University of Liverpool, The Open
University, and The Sheffield College.
1.6 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
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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 recently 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.
2. ALT events
2.1 ALT-C 2011 - “Thriving in colder and more challenging climate”
ALT’s 18th international annual conference will be held 6-8 September at
the University of Leeds. Keynote speakers will include Miguel Brechner,
Head of Uruguay’s Plan Ceibal, under which all children and teachers in
public schools in Uruguay have received their own laptop and
connectivity to the Internet, and John Naughton, Professor of the Public
Understanding of Technology at the Open University, and the Observer's
technology columnist. Conference co-chairs: John Cook, Professor of
Technology Enhanced Learning at the Learning Technology Research
Institute, London Metropolitan University and Sugata Mitra, Professor of
Educational Technology at Newcastle University. Full details at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2011/ and in the web-resolution A4 flyer at
http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/altc2011_flyer_low_res.pdf. The hashtag for
ALT-C 2011 is #altc2011.
2.2 ALT/eLN lunchtime webinars
We are proud to announce that Gilly Salmon (now Chair of ALT -
http://tinyurl.com/2ack7px) and Martin Sloman
(http://tinyurl.com/38grokv) will be jointly presenting the next free
lunchtime ALT/ELN webinar – Learning in 2020 - on 6 December 2010. For
more information and for a link the booking form visit
http://www.alt.ac.uk/events.php.
2.3 ALT runs a number of one-day conferences, workshops and webinars
throughout the year for its members. If you have an idea for a workshop
or a webinar, please email Hayley Maisey, Head of Operations and Events
at ALT: [log in to unmask] We are interested in proposals to run a
workshop/webinar at which you might be a presenter, or demands for a
workshop/webinar on a topic or theme that you feel represents a gap that
needs filling.
3. News
3.1 Times Higher Education Article - Don't be afraid to share
Social media allow users to share information about themselves and their
interests. Article includes comments from Alan Cann, Martin Hall and
Martin Weller. See http://tinyurl.com/37f83w5
3.2 For the latest HEFCE news headlines see http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news
3.3 For the latest JISC news headlines see http://jisc.ac.uk/news.asp
3.4 Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
e-bulletin available at http://www.llas.ac.uk/e-bulletin
3.5 How is learning technology being used in the workplace? Towards
Maturity has published the preliminary findings from its 2010 Benchmark,
involving 400 participants from across the private, public and
not-for-profit sectors. See http://tinyurl.com/3akyo87. The full report
will be published in November.
4.Funding calls
4.1 JISC Grant Funding
Institutions invited to submit funding proposals for projects to be
funded as part of its e-content programme for 2011. For proposal
information, visit
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2010/10/grant1610.aspx.
JISC event for more information about the call - 28 October 2010,
London, see http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2010/09/27
Proposal deadline: 12:00 noon (UK time) 10 December 2010.
4.2 Call for proposals for the Information Communications and
Technologies (ICT) Theme under FP7 co-operation programme. Call
identifier: FP7-ICT-2011-7
See http://tinyurl.com/2f3eets
Contact Mr Peter Walters: Tel: +44-193-2251260 or e-mail:
[log in to unmask]
Submission deadline: 18 January 2011, (4pm UK time).
5. Other events
5.1 Charity Learning Consortium (CLC) Seminar
Half day seminar illustrating how charities can spread the cost of
eLearning by joining a Consortium
20 October 2010, Central London, see
http://charitylearning.org/seminar/index.html
5.2 Heraldscotland.com Digital Business Awards
October 21 2010, Oran Mor, Glasgow.
See http://www.heraldscotland.com/go/digitalawards10
5.3 The Publishers Association Conference - Inspired to Learn
18 November 2010, London
Aims to explore how publishers, academics and librarians can work more
closely together to develop teaching and learning and research materials
in the current economic climate.
Visit http://www.publishers.org.uk/InspiredtoLearn
5.4 British Association for Applied Linguistics - BAAL Multimodality
SIG. Changing Communication: New Technologies and Their impact on
Meaning Making and Pedagogy.
26 November 2010, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
See http://www.baal.org.uk/sigs_multimod.htm
5.5 ALT Sponsoring Member LSIS is hosting an ‘Embracing technology for
success’ one day conference. 2 February 2011, Maple House, Birmingham,
UK See http://tinyurl.com/35bsjta
5.6 eLearning Alliance's forth-coming events
See http://www.elearningalliance.org/events/default.aspx
5.7 Netskills forth-coming workshops/events
See http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/products/workshops/month/index.html
5.8 Inside Government Events
See http://www.insidegovernment.co.uk/events.php
6. Calls for papers
6.1 The University of Salford’s 6th Education in a Changing Environment
Conference - Creativity and Engagement in Higher Education, 6 - 8 July
2011 See http://www.ece.salford.ac.uk/
The Call for Contributions is now open, full research papers at
http://www.ece.salford.ac.uk/?pid=fullpapers and abstracts for Pecha
Kucha, Workshops, Demonstrations, Performance, Posters
athttp://www.ece.salford.ac.uk/?pid=abstracts. Hashtag #ECE11
7. Vacancies
7.1 Southampton Solent University
Learning and Information Service
Information Systems Librarian
Full time Grade 7
Salary: £33,600 - £38,951 per annum
See http://www.solent.ac.uk/vacancies/BAAA11.aspx
Closing Date: 4 November 2010
7.2 Lancaster University
Department: JISC RSC Northwest
eLearning Adviser (FE & Skills)
Ref no: A120
Full time, salary: £30,747 to £35,646
Closing date: Monday 25 October 2010
Informal enquiries to: Andrew Quarmby [log in to unmask]
URL: http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A120
8. Latest issue of ALT News Online – links to individual articles:
Article – “In my opinion” The HTML5 and Flash Debate by Barry Sampson
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/2flsxrri7hv19z0mhre8b8
Article – “IT in university level mathematics teaching and learning: a
mathematician's point of view” by Manchester University’s Professor
Alexandre Borovik http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/4edkkzb138s19z0mhre8b8
Article – “Echo360 Personal Capture” by Mimi Weiss Johnson and Justin
Gagen http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/q0078azxlyv19z0mhre8b8
Article – “Learning Landscapes in Higher Education” by Les Watson
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/wxjt53kw6dr19z0mhre8b8
Article – “W3C's Widget standards set to shake up the world of mobile
applications – and bring more features to VLEs” by Scott Wilson
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/w5a1dao0xsc19z0mhre8b8
Article – “Gaining business intelligence from user activity data”
A Report from the JISC Workshop, London, 14 July 2010 by David Kay
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/1cc17h3tcpb19z0mhre8b8
Article – “E-Learning in the Women's Institutes” by Lynne Stubbings
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/12eamb7nzxu19z0mhre8b8
Article – “A week in the life of Philip Wane, Nottingham Trent
University” by Philip Wane
http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/1e6w6efzqnq19z0mhre8b8
9. Latest issue of ALT-J (to be ‘Research in Learning Technology’ from
January 2011) - article links
The current issue (Volume 18 Issue 2), 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. *NB* If you cannot access
the Journal online, this is something we may be able to help you fix.
Table of contents http://tinyurl.com/2vlfm9u
Editorial – “A snapshot of research in learning technology” by Rhona Sharpe
DOI: 10.1080/09687769.2010.499207
http://tinyurl.com/2wfwruo
Article – “Sustainability factors for e-learning initiatives” by Cathy Gunn
DOI: 10.1080/09687769.2010.492848
http://tinyurl.com/2ua6gx2
Article – “The role of podcasting in effective curriculum renewal” by
Ming Nie, Alejandro Armellini, Sue Harrington, Kelly Barklamb and Ray
Randall
DOI: 10.1080/09687769.2010.492849
http://tinyurl.com/3y8k8py
Article – “Integrating technology with literacy: using teacher-guided
collaborative online learning to encourage critical thinking” by Alyson
Simpson
DOI: 10.1080/09687769.2010.492846 http://tinyurl.com/2vuo4bs
Article – “Exploring mobile learning success factors” by Thomas D. Cochrane
DOI: 10.1080/09687769.2010.494718
http://tinyurl.com/2vbnqen
Article – “Students and mobile devices” by John Traxler DOI:
10.1080/09687769.2010.492847
http://tinyurl.com/36lenvx
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