Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news Digest 260 issued on 19 October 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. Open Educational Resources
8. Job vacancies
9. ALT Online Newsletter - links to articles from the latest Issue
published in August 2012
10. Current articles from Issue 20.3 of the ALT Journal - Research in
Learning Technology
1. ALT News
1.1 ALT-C 2012: Conference Publications available online
Links to publications from the 2012 ALT Conference, including the
Conference Proceedings and Abstracts, are available at http://goo.gl/Xuaxo
Recordings of Keynote and Invited Speaker sessions will be published via
the ALT YouTube channel.
1.2 Robin Mason Fellowships
ALT has set up a fund to commemorate Robin Masons life. The purpose of
the fellowship fund is to support researchers who cannot otherwise come
to the annual conference.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/robinmasonfellowships
1.3 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 CMALT webinars for assessors
The next CMALT webinars for Certified Members of ALT interested in
becoming assessors will take place on the following dates:
2 November, 12.30 GMT
6 December, 12.30 GMT
The webinars are designed to provide information and support to new
CMALT assessors and are free to attend.
For details please contact [log in to unmask]
To book your place please go to http://www.alt.ac.uk/events.
2.2 CMALT webinars for candidates
The next CMALT webinars for candidates will take place on the following
dates:
25 October, 12.30 GMT
8 November, 12.30 GMT
29 November, 12.30 GMT
These webinars are 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 you place please go to http://www.alt.ac.uk/events.
2.3 OER13: Creating an OER Virtuous Circle, 26-27 March 2013
OER13 will take place at the University of Nottingham, renowned for its
Open Nottingham programme which has strategically embraced the agenda of
open access to teaching. The Conference programme will consist of an
engaging mix of refereed papers, workshops, symposia, posters and
demonstrations exploring the impact of OER on HE within the conference
themes.
http://goo.gl/WK9qw
2.4 altc2013 Building new cultures of learning
The 20th annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology
will be held at the University of Nottingham, 10-12 September 2013.
More information is at http://goo.gl/TOiAk
3. News
3.1 The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education has published
Chapter B3: learning and teaching of the UK Quality Code for Higher
Education.
The Chapter can be found at: http://goo.gl/gTD5f.
3.2 Handbook of social media for researchers and supervisors
The goal of this handbook is to assist researchers and their supervisors
to adopt and use social media tools in the service of their research,
and, in particular, in engaging in the discourse of research. The
handbook presents an innovative suite of resources for developing and
maintaining a social media strategy for research dialogues.
http://goo.gl/LCmrA
3.3 Open Call for Fellowship Applications, Academic Year 2013-2014
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University has
opened our yearly call for fellowship applications. This opportunity is
for those who wish to spend the 2013-2014 academic year in residence in
Cambridge, MA as part of Berkman's community of pioneers, and who seek
to deeply engage in the collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and
cross-sectoral exploration of some of the Internet's most interesting,
challenging, and compelling issues.
http://goo.gl/xDzOy
4. Events
4.1 Registration now open for the 2nd European Immersive Education
Summit, 26 - 27 November 2012
The theme for the 2nd European Immersive Education (iED) Summit is:
'Immersive Education: combining creativity, art and pedagogy'. The
two-day event is open to the global academic and practitioner community
with interests in immersion, simulation, learning games, virtual reality
and augmented and mixed reality.
http://goo.gl/IUpgF
4.2 Using PebblePad to support Graduateness and Employability, Tuesday
6th November
A one-day event hosted by the University of Staffordshire, for PebblePad
users and interested others, exploring how policy and practice for
graduateness and employability is supported and enhanced through the use
of tools such as tags, collections, capabilities, custom forms... and
eportfolios!
http://bit.ly/Rch27L
4.3 Sonic Foundry, ALT Sponsoring member, will webcast the Sloan
Consortium's 18th Annual International Conference on Online Learning
The conference provides the latest research and best practices in online
and blended learning programs. Select sessions will be webcast live and
also will be archived for on-demand viewing post-conference. Sloan-C
expects about 1,100 of the 2,650 attendees to participate remotely.
http://goo.gl/GqqpH
4.4 Teaching online courses: 16 January - 15 February
The short, practical OCSLD course on online tutoring has been updated to
explore the potential of using publicly available online social spaces
e.g. Web 2.0 applications such as blogs and wikis for facilitation of
online learning activities.
http://goo.gl/iUOcg
4.5 Innovating Learning: using technology for greater access, different
content and better outcomes, Tuesday 4 December 2012
The annual digital learning conference brought to you jointly by NIACE
and the BBC, will take place at the BBCs flagship studios at MediaCity,
Manchester. It will feature a range of high profile speakers, including:
Eben Upton, Executive Director of Raspberry Pi foundation; Saul Nassé,
controller of BBC Learning; and Steve Stanley HMI, OFSTED's Principal
Officer for Adult Skills & Employment.
http://goo.gl/B9BNb
4.6 Making Video for Language Learning and Teaching, 17 November 2012
The Centre for English Language Teaching at the University of York are
running a workshop in collaboration with the Centre for Languages
Linguistics and Area Studies. This practical workshop will introduce ELT
professionals to the skills involved in making short video films to
support teaching and learning. It will explore how to develop an idea
into a film that can be exploited effectively in the classroom or in a
self-access context.
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6643
4.7 Education Innovation Conference and Exhibition, 8-9 March 2012
Education Innovation is a new national conference and exhibition that
brings together leading education experts, thought leaders and
inspirational practitioners to share expert advice, training and
guidance in using technology to improve teaching and learning.
http://educationinnovation.co.uk/cms/
4.8 Designing your online course, 31 October - 2 December 2012
This short, practical course will assist you with some of the decisions
you need to make once you have decided to run a course online, including
designing activities that engage students, selecting and reusing
content, choosing tools, and evaluating how the course meets your
learners' needs.
For more details, please visit http://goo.gl/vb4t4
4.9 Come to the Mozilla Festival! 9-11 November 2012
The Mozilla Festival is a yearly celebration of learning and innovation.
Gathering passionate people like you to explore the web, learn together,
and make things that can change the world. Themes we want to explore
this year include: Hackable Games, Making the Web Physical, Webmaking
for Mobile, Coding for Teens, Web-Native Cinema, Source Code for
Journalism, Skills and Badges, and Hacktivate Learning.
As last year, the festival is held at Ravensbourne College opposite the
O2 arena in London.
http://mozillafestival.org
4.10 International Enhancement Themes Conference: Enhancement and Innovation
We are delighted to announce that the International Enhancement Themes
Conference: Enhancement and Innovation will take place on 11-13 June
2013 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Glasgow. To mark 10 years of the
Enhancement Themes, this major conference will bring together over 500
delegates from across the globe engaged in enhancing the student
learning experience and will feature a series of keynote lectures from
leading international experts covering the spectrum of enhancement.
http://goo.gl/7Y3xB
4.11 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 articles on engagement, simulation/gaming and learning
Simulation & Gaming are looking for contributions to a special issue on
engagement and learning with games and simulations.
More details can be found at http://goo.gl/kqxzX
5.2 Call For Chapter Proposals deadline extended to October 30, 2012
Synergic Integration of Formal and Informal E-Learning Environments for
Adult Lifelong Learners, A book edited by Sabrina Leone, Università
Politecnica delle Marche, Italy. To be published by IGI Global:
http://bit.ly/NklLoJ
Further information http://goo.gl/ZVbRf
6. Funding calls
None in this issue.
7. Open Educational Resources
7.1 Webcast recording: Connecting the Dots between Open Access and Open
Educational Resources
On September 27, Cable Green of Creative Commons and Nicole Allen at
Student PIRGs gave an Open Educational Resources (OER) dove into the
basics of OERs, the relevance of OERs to the library community and the
intersections of OER and Open Access.
Watch the webcast at http://goo.gl/Bp7ni
7.2 Social Media Handbook for Researchers and Supervisors
Vitae and The Open University, UK have launched a Handbook of Social
Media for Researchers and Supervisors: Digital technologies for
research dialogues. Funded through Vitae Innovate and developed by Dr
Shailey Minocha and Professor Marian Petre of the Centre for Research in
Computing, this handbook aims to assist researchers and their
supervisors to adopt and use social media tools in the service of their
research, and, in particular in engaging in the discourse of research.
The handbook presents an innovative suite of resources for developing
and maintaining a social media strategy for research dialogues.
http://goo.gl/DStvv
8. Jobs
8.1 JISC RSC Northern
e-Learning Advisor
SLS 254/2215
£30,123 - £35,939
Full time, Fixed term
Closing date: 21 October 2012
Informal enquiries to Cam swift, [log in to unmask] or 07736 157293
www.sunderland.ac.uk/jobs
8.2 NHS Genetics Education Centre, Birmingham
e-learning development officer
231-12-RG-45
£25,528 - £34,189
18 months fixed term
Informal enquiries to [log in to unmask] | 0121 623 6987
www.jobs.nhs.uk
8.3 NHS Genetics Education Centre, Birmingham
Blended/e-learning practitioner and programme manager
231-12-RG-44
£38,851 - £46,621
18 months fixed term
Informal enquiries to [log in to unmask] | 0121 623 6987
www.jobs.nhs.uk
8.4 City of Glasgow College
Senior Learning Technologist
£28,053
Permanent, Full Time, 35 Hours per week
Closing date: 26 October 2012
http://goo.gl/CGVCj
8.5 Sheffield Hallam University
Quality Enhancement and Student Success
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning
SLS 129/12
£31,020 - £45,486
Full time, Permanent
Closing date: 22 October 2012
Informal enquiries to Graham Holden, [log in to unmask]
http://goo.gl/IeQVw
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 28, published in
August 2012
Table of contents for Issue 28 - http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/tag/issue-28/
Article A fun fair time at JISC RSC Northwests Annual Event by
Michelle Hyland
http://goo.gl/lM9QB
Article MOOC pedagogy: the challenges of developing for Coursera by
Jeremy Knox, Sian Bayne, Hamish MacLeod, Jen Ross and Christine Sinclair
http://goo.gl/dFhi4
Article UNESCO 2012 World Open Education Resources Congress by Tim Seal
http://goo.gl/tleLO
Article Scottish Mobile Learning Day by Gráinne Hamilton
http://goo.gl/Ej2WJ
Article Meet the M25 Learning Technology Group by Julie Voce and
Mimi Weiss Johnson
http://goo.gl/1OiS9
Article SIG Update: Inclusive Learning Special Interest Group
http://goo.gl/icQcm
Article A week in the life of
Maren Deepwell
http://goo.gl/M1dBm
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 3 table of contents
Editorial Accessibility: the killer app of learning technology?
Rhona Sharpe
http://goo.gl/kHNuP
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.19584
Article Using videoconferencing in a school-scientist partnership:
students perceptions and scientists challenges
Garry Falloon
http://goo.gl/ZQd0x
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.17194
Article Perceptions of undergraduate Graphic Design students on the
educational potential of Facebook
Nicos Souleles
http://goo.gl/ozeTP
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.17490
Article Trajectories of engagement: a repeated cross-sectional
investigation of student perceptions of an online learning environment
Stuart Palmer, Dale Holt
http://goo.gl/i0lll
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.17143
Article Investigating uses and perceptions of an online collaborative
workspace for the dissertation process
Amanda J. Rockinson-Szapkiw
http://goo.gl/0mCS7
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.18192
Article - " Assessment choices to target higher order learning outcomes:
the power of academic empowerment"
Margot McNeill, Maree Gosper, Jing Xu
http://goo.gl/WfUDO
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.17595
Article - " Students and recorded lectures: survey on current use and
demands for higher education"
Pierre Gorissen, Jan van Bruggen, Wim Jochems
http://goo.gl/N9b9t
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0.17299
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