Association for Learning Technology
Fortnightly news Digest 325 issued on 12 June 2015
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The deadline for the next issue of the Digest is 12.00 on Wednesday 24 June 2015 for the Digest to be issued on Friday 26 June 2015.
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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
10. Current articles the ALT Journal - Research in Learning Technology
1. ALT News
1.1 Early call for expressions of interest in Chairing the 2017 ALT Conference
ALT's Trustees are seeking an experienced Chair (or up to 3 Co-Chairs) for the 2017 Conference Programme Committee and its executive, who will play a major role in planning and delivery of ALT's 24th Annual Conference in 2017.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1KNvMG1
1.2 2015 AGM Calling Notice and Nominations for Trustee and Vice-Chair
The 2015 AGM Calling Notice and Trustee and Vice-Chair nomination forms have now been published at http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2359/. All nominations should arrive by 5pm on Friday 12 June 2015.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1IEI58H
1.3 Using technology to enhance learning: An online CPD course – User requirements survey
This survey asks for feedback on the proposed curriculum and learning design of a free online CPD course for vocational leaders, teachers and trainers, funded by Ufi and delivered on the Futurelearn platform
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1I1asKk
2. ALT Events
2.1 Early bird registration is now open for the 22nd Annual Conference of the Association for Learning Technology, 8–10 September 2015, University of Manchester.
Early bird registration offers a significant discount across all conference fees and is open until 29 June. ALT members are also entitled to a further 20% discount on attendance.
To book please visit: http://go.alt.ac.uk/2015-altc-reg.
3. News
None this issue.
4. Events
4.1 “How to increase student recruitment by improving applicant community, commitment and conversion”, a free webinar, Tuesday 16 June, 11.30 BST
Join industry specialist and IBM partner, Portal for a free webinar to consider best practice examples from across the education sector. In this 45-minute session Di Roberts CBE, Principal and Chief Executive at Brockenhurst College, will share the benefits of using Applicant Engagement to: Provide a campus in the cloud, enabling prospects with a window into your culture and daily life; Drive powerful and secure social networking between students, academics, support, alumni and employers; Inspire prospects to build a community of support that increases engagement during the recruitment cycle; Ensure greater value for money from recruitment spend with high impact to conversion and early retention.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1JJ46ng
4.2 "How to make your VLE more interactive", a free event, Friday 26 June 8.30 - 12.30 BST
Prospects College of Advanced Technology hosts a Digital Learning Community of Practice for the sharing of effective practice between HE, FE, Colleges, Schools, Employers and other interested parties. The theme is "How to make your VLE more interactive". The group meets the last friday of each calendar month focusing on a specific theme.
Booking enquiries to: [log in to unmask]
4.3 East Midlands Learning Technologists' group Summer Meeting, Loughborough University, Monday 29 June 2015, 12:00-16:00.
The theme is ‘Let’s get mobile!’ exploring the benefits and challenges associated with going mobile providing a variety of examples of how mobile technologies have been used to support learning.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1JO0al8
4.4 Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences for June to December 2015
Clayton R Wright has circulated an updated version of his thorough listing of conferences and, as with previous updates this is now on the ALT Open Access repository at http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2360/
5. Calls for proposals
5.1 Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference; Edinburgh 25-29th April
Providing a multidisciplinary forum for addressing the critical issues and challenges confronting the education sector today, the theme this year is: “Enhancing Impact: Convergence of Communities for Grounding, Implementation and Validation”. The conference welcomes practitioner and researcher submissions.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1cPzaER
6. Funding calls
6.1 Jisc Digital Student Skills tender, deadline 19 June 2015, 12.00pm BST
Jisc invites tenders for consultants to conduct a brief review of existing research into learners’ in the skills sector (i.e. work based learners, adult and community based learners, apprentices and offender learners) expectations and experiences of the digital environment together with gathering new data from a series of focus groups and consultation events with learners and staff from the skills sector
https://tenders.ja.net
6.2 Delivery of learning and development opportunities in the education and training sector (ELMAG 2), deadline 6 July 2015
Phase 1 of the ELMAG programme (which ended in March 2015) commissioned 15 projects that delivered a range of learning and development opportunities. This Invitation to Tender for Phase 2 projects, has been developed by the ELMAG partnership in collaboration with the Foundation.
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1JJZCyp
7. Open Educational Resources
None this issue.
8. Job vacancies
8.1 Open University of the Netherlands
Welten Institute - Research Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology
Post-Dodc & PhD candidate
Salary depends on position
Full time, Temporary
Closing date: 17 June 2015
Informal enquiries to: [log in to unmask]
8.2 University of Northampton
Learning Designer
UN1705
£32,377 - £36,309
Full time, fixed term
Closing date: 24 June 2015
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1cljmJP
8.3 University of West London
Institute for Teaching, Innovation and Learning (INSTIL)
Academic Developer in TEL
INS024
£34,500 - £41,907
Full time, Permanent
Closing date: 29 June 2015
Informal enquiries to: [log in to unmask]
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1C2BNd8
8.4 Lancaster University
Division of Health Research, Specrum Centre for Mental Health Research
Part-time Digital Technology/Web Developer
N861
£24,775
Part time
Closing Date: 16 June 2015
Informal Enquiries to: [log in to unmask]
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1BaETki
8.5 Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust
Learning Technology Officer
260-1131-GJ
£26,030 to £33,816
Full Time, permanent
Closing Date: 3 July 2015
Informal enquiries to: Simon Kear [log in to unmask]
9. Current articles from the ALT Online Newsletter
The newsletter website is at: http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/
Latest articles:
“Journal of Media Enhanced Learning”
Andrew Middleton
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1KUJnf5
“Event report: M25 Learning Technology Group meeting (March 2015)”
Colin Laughlin, Julie Voce, Leo Havemann, Sonja Grussendorf
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1cIlCuZ
“The View from the Air”
Dr Dan Faux and Andrew Sparkes
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1HvNOJP
“A word with Bob Harrison”
Bob Harrison
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1KnukKu
“EMMA – providing multilingual access to European MOOCs”
Alberto Nantiat
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1Jk2bFZ
“Open Library of Humanities”
Dr Paul Eve
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1IESvVZ
We welcome articles, comment, reviews, project news and advertising enquiries. For more information on how to submit an article to the Newsletter go to http://go.alt.ac.uk/1EMDSy6
10. Current articles from our peer-reviewed Open Access journal Research in Learning Technology
The journal website is at: http://go.alt.ac.uk/1fACEcg
"Just-in-time research: a call to arms for research into mobile technologies in higher education "
Lucie Byrne-Davis, Hilary Dexter, Jo Hart, Tim Cappelli, Ged Byrne, Ian Sampson, Jane Mooney, Colin Lumsden
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v23.25653
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1Ph7jfr
“I finally felt like I had power’: student agency and voice in an online and classroom-based role-play simulation”
A. Rector-Aranda and M. Raider-Roth
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v23.25569
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1GKru2s
“The influence of emotions, attitudes and perceptions on learning with technology”
Meg O’Reilly
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v23.27763
http://go.alt.ac.uk/19CO2Fr
“Creating visual aids with graphic organisers on an infinite canvas – the impact on the presenter”
Jordi Casteleyn, Andre Mottart and Martin Valcke
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v23.25161
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1DP6uCz
"Critical connections: personal learning environments and information literacy"
Alison Hicks and Caroline Sinkinson
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v23.21193
http://go.alt.ac.uk/1IJv1vz
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