Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news Digest 254 issued on 20 July 2012

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Table of Contents
1. ALT news
2. ALT events
3. News
4. Other events
5. Calls for proposals
6. Funding calls
7. Job vacancies
8. ALT Online Newsletter - links to articles from the latest Issue 
published in June 2012
9. Current articles from the ALT Journal - Research in Learning Technology


1. ALT News

1.1 ALT is pleased to welcome the Judicial Studies Committee, Scottish 
Court Service; University of East Anglia (http://www.uea.ac.uk) and 
Newcastle College (http://www.ncl-coll.ac.uk/) as new Organisational 
Members of ALT.

1.2 Better Learning through Technology - a report from the SchoolsTech 
Conversation run by Naace and ALT between January and March 2012 is 
available on the ALT Open Access Repository at 
http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2219/

1.3 Call for expressions of interest in membership of each of ALT's four 
main operational committees
This will be issued in July 2012, with the closing date likely to be in 
early September, for those appointed to take part in their first 
committee meeting in October.

1.4 Any employee of an ALT member organisation is entitled to join ALT 
individually at no cost as an Associate Member. You can do this in 
seconds from http://goo.gl/fOCYC


2. ALT events

2.1 Large scale curriculum redesign conference: continuing the 
conversation, free lunch-time webinar 9 August 2012
Following the success of the ALT/AoC one-day conference on large scale 
curriculum redesign, ALT has organised a follow-up webinar featuring 
several of the presenters from the event. This will provide an 
opportunity for further discussion around the subject, with ample time 
for questions.
For more information and to book go to http://goo.gl/YuAyP

2.2 ALT-C 2012 – a confrontation with reality – online registration open 
until 17 August 2012
The 19th international conference of the Association for Learning 
Technology will be held at the University of Manchester, UK, 11-13 
September 2012.
For more information go to http://goo.gl/N3YOC
Register at http://goo.gl/9th8d

2.3 CMALT webinar for candidates
The next CMALT webinar for candidates is due to take place on 26 July at 
12.30pm. This webinar is for CMALT candidates who are registered for the 
scheme and who are working towards their portfolio submission.
For details please contact [log in to unmask]
To book your place please go to: http://goo.gl/1oc6T


3. News

3.1 Moving to Moodle Videos
The Bloomsbury Colleges in collaboration with ULCC have produced a 
collection of interviews which highlight issues, best practice and top 
tips when moving your VLE to Moodle.
The videos are available on YouTube: http://goo.gl/cshBZ

3.2 JISC - new publications launched
The JISC e-Learning Programme team is pleased to announce the release of 
five new publications on the themes of:
lifelong learning http://goo.gl/qpDsh;
e-portfolio implementation http://goo.gl/F2aBn;
innovation in further education http://goo.gl/zvYsY;
digital literacies http://goo.gl/Ry49t;
extending the learning environment http://goo.gl/q2m4f.
These publications will be of interest to managers and practitioners in 
further and higher education and work based learning. Three of these 
publications are supported by additional online resources including 
videos, podcasts and full length case studies.

3.3 Ufi charitable trust report - Scaling up: Achieving a breakthrough 
in adult learning with technology
The first report commissioned by Ufi Charitable Trust investigates 
opportunities for and barriers to the application of digital technology 
to adult learning. The report was compiled following research including 
142 phone and online questionnaires and 36 in-depth interviews with 
researchers, business people, learning professionals and civil servants. 
Authors: Adrian Perry Clive Shepherd, Dick Moore, Seb Schmoller,
http://goo.gl/NyI9U

3.4 Request for your participation in a survey on pedagogical approaches 
to using a VLE
Agnieszka Jankowska, a student on the MSc Learning Technologies' at the 
Institute of Education, would welcome your participation in a short 
survey for a project on pedagogical approaches to using a VLE. Your 
participation would help assess whether more could be done to 
incentivise a change of teaching culture in HE to promote quality of 
teaching in general, and also to endorse the use of technologies to 
enhance the teaching and learning experience.
http://goo.gl/NJ7J3

4. Other events

4.1 FOTE12 - 5th October 2012
Although FOTE12 is still a good few months away we thought we should 
give you a heads-up on what to expect at the 5th annual Future of 
Technology in Education conference. We are excited to announce that we 
have already confirmed Anirban Saha, Head of Social Innovation & 
Intelligence, Nokia, Cailean Hargrave, Further Education Business 
Development Manager, IBM and Yousuf Kahn, CIO, HULT International 
Business School as keynote speakers. You can find out more at 
www.fote-conference.com and by following the #fote12 hashtag.

4.2 E-learning and Digital Cultures
E-learning and Digital Cultures is aimed at teachers, learning 
technologists, and people with a general interest in education who want 
to deepen their understanding of what it means to teach and learn in the 
digital age. This free Edinburgh University course is one of the very 
first from the UK to be offered in partnership with Stanford University 
start-up Coursera.
To enrol go to http://goo.gl/lke4N

4.3 Sonic Foundry, ALT sponsoring member, to webcast Campus Technology 
Conference
Sonic Foundry will use its webcasting platform Mediasite to record 
breakout and general sessions of the Campus Technology 2012 Conference. 
The conference takes place July 16 to 19 in Boston, Mass. The sessions 
will be available for on-demand viewing on the conference website 
http://goo.gl/4LuK7.

4.4 Educational Technology and Education Conferences, June to December 2012
Clayton R Wright has put together an extensive list of educational 
technology and education conferences taking place between June and 
December this year. The list is available on the ALT Open Access 
Repository at http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2218/


5. Calls for proposals

5.1 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Mobile Learning and Creativity
The special issue of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended 
Learning will review and reconsider the role of mobile learning for 
fostering creativity, focusing on outlining definitions and concepts of 
creativity, exploring the relationship between learning and creativity 
in different contexts (for instance, formal education, workplace 
learning, informal learning), and analysing ways in which mobile media 
may – or may not – foster creative learning.
Extended abstracts are invited on or before September 1, 2012.
For details, see http://goo.gl/dAcma.

5.2 CfP Special Issue Serious Games
We would like to advise you that Information Sciences will publish a 
peer-reviewed, special issue on Serious Games in the fall of 2013. 
Information Sciences is an international, refereed journal with a 5-year 
impact factor of 2.984. We would like to invite you to submit a 
manuscript for consideration for publication in this special issue. The 
deadline for submission is October 15, 2012.
Further details about the special issue and the call for papers can be 
found here: http://goo.gl/DDMT7


6. Funding calls

6.1 Ufi Charitable Trust
Stage 1 applications for projects which improve the delivery of adult 
and vocational learning through the use of digital technology are open.
Closing date: 31 July 2012
http://www.ufi.co.uk/apply


7. Open Educational Resources

7.1 Special Issue of Technology, Pedagogy and Education: the Semantic 
Web and Education
A new Special Issue on the Semantic Web and Education focusses on the 
role of these technologies in teaching, learning and curriculum 
development in higher education. The papers in this special issue 
suggest that new web technologies have important roles to play in 
changing pedagogical practices in higher education settings, 
particularly when teachers and students are seen as designers of their 
own learning technologies and as producers of new knowledge.
http://goo.gl/W62Q6

7.2 Resources from JISC RSC East Midlands e-fair available
The JISC Regional Support Centre for the East Midlands recently held its 
8th annual e-fair for the post-16 education and training sector. All the 
resources from the e-fair are now available on its Moodle site. These 
include Bob Harrison’s Keynote, The Big Debate on "Should learners be 
encouraged to use their own devices in the classroom?" and lots of 
resources from workshops including e-safety, Twitter, Curriculum change, 
Blogging, QR codes, iBooks, Moodle 2, mobile devices.
Go to http://goo.gl/w2q6F.


8. Jobs

8.1 The Australian National University
College of Asia and the Pacific
Digital Learning Convenor
A318 12MY
$101,224 - $129,342 AUD
Full time, Temporary
Closing date: 15 August 2012
Informal enquiries to Dr Andrew Walker [log in to unmask]
http://goo.gl/ZOx3s

8.2 Edge Hill University
Learning Technology Development - Learning Services
Learning Technology Development Officer
EHA0210-0712
£24,520 - £26,779
Full time, Permanent
Closing date: 31 July 2012
Informal enquiries to Megan Juss: [log in to unmask]
http://goo.gl/eIH5p

8.3 The Open University
Wolfson OpenScience Laboratory
PhD Studentships
13590
Full time
Closing date: 3 August 2012
Informal enquiries to [log in to unmask]
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/openscience/

8.4 The Open University
Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate
Closing date: 3 August 2012
Informal enquiries to [log in to unmask]
http://goo.gl/mL1Xz

8.5 University of Sheffield
Human Metabolism
Learning Technologist
UOS004768
£28,401 - £35,938 per annum, with potential to progess to £39,257
Full time
Closing date: 30 July 2012
Informal enquiries to Dr Ilaria Bellantuono [log in to unmask]
http://goo.gl/LdUYy

8.6 There is a regular supply of mainly US jobs in the learning
technology field at http://www.salt.org/salt.asp?ss=l&pn=joblistall,
with a helpful RSS feed at http://www.salt.org/Weblink/SaltJobs.rss.


9. ALT Online Newsletter - links to articles from Issue 27, published in 
June 2012

Table of contents for Issue 27 - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/tag/issue-27/

Article – ‘Is education research a form of alchemy?’ by Aaron Sloman
http://goo.gl/WdA10

Article – ‘The SCARLET Project: Marrying Augmented Reality and Special 
Collections’ by the SCARLET Team
http://goo.gl/KDCQx

Article – ‘Staff Development through Tightly Integrated Blended 
Learning’ by Peter Wren
http://goo.gl/7HQEb

Article – ‘Using Blackboard Collaborate 11 to deliver a global online 
conference’ by Simon Kear
http://goo.gl/dhD0m

Article – ‘Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference 2012’ by Adel 
Gordon and Julie Usher
http://goo.gl/oMR5j

Article – ‘Over the Irish Sea: Moodlemoot 2012’ by James Clay
http://goo.gl/Bt6W4

Article – ‘Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference (PELeCON) 2012’ by 
Catherine Cronin, Farzana Latif, Matt Lingard and Santanu Vasant
http://goo.gl/kZ1en

Article – ‘Video in Teaching And Learning Special Interest Group (ViTAL 
SIG) Update’ by John Conway, Philip Tubman and Dr Clive P L Young
http://goo.gl/kBPii
Article – ‘A week in the life of…Sarah Sherman’
http://goo.gl/KV9aA


10. Current articles from our peer-reviewed Open Access journal Research 
in Learning Technology

Research in Learning Technology is now published online continuously, 
though we continue to produce printed Issues and to allocate articles to 
Issues.

The journal web site is http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/. 
Below are links to articles from the most recent Issue.

Vol 20, Issue 2 – table of contents

Editorial – “Relationships with technology”
Rhona Sharpe
http://goo.gl/QZZ4d
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.18531

Article – “Chalkface; interface; screenface: moving the metaphor of 
teaching towards the nexus of teaching and learning”
Alison Ruth
http://goo.gl/Zmv22
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.17187

Article – “Perceptions of the effects of clicker technology on student 
learning and engagement: a study of freshmen Chemistry students”
Jenepher Lennox Terrion, Victoria Aceti
http://goo.gl/1hkYM
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.16150

Article – “Teaching with wikis: improving staff development through 
action research”
Robyn Benson, Charlotte Brack, Gayani Samarwickrema
http://goo.gl/aeQP0
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.16149

Article – “Applying a framework to evaluate assignment marking software: 
a case study on Lightwork”
Eva Heinrich, John Milne
http://goo.gl/oj0BJ
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.16152

Article - "Making science real: photo-sharing in biology and chemistry"
Jenny Waycott, Barney Dalgarno, Gregor Kennedy, Andrea Bishop
http://goo.gl/BNlE6
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.16151

Article - "Linking theory to practice in learning technology research"
Cathy Gunn, Caroline Steel
http://goo.gl/QQqA8
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.16148

Article - "The implementation and evaluation of a new learning space: a 
pilot study"
Gail Wilson, Marcus Randall
http://goo.gl/CwdK2
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0/14431



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