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<p>The Sixth edition of Icepops (Icepops 2025) is happening – as another Pocket Edition (meaning on a slightly smaller, but no less inspiring or fun, scale). Icepops will take place at <a href="https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/visit/" rel="nofollow">John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester</a> on Tuesday 9th September and Wednesday 10th September 2025. The main conference will start mid morning on 9th September and include an evening social. The <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/groups/special-interest-groups/copyright-and-onlin... rel="nofollow">ALT CoOL SIG</a> AGM will take place on the morning of Wednesday 10th September and we’ll be arranging tours of British Pop Archive at the University of Manchester.</p>
<p>Our confirmed keynote speaker is Monica Westin, Associate Director at Manchester Metropolitan University. The programme will be published in July 2025 and include lightning talks and a world cafe. </p>
<p><a href="https://copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-events/icepops-international-copy... more.</a></p>
<p>Register here: <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cilipinformationliteracygroup/169990...
<p>Theme: Making Digital Life Better for International Students</p>
<p>As international student populations continue to grow, so too does our responsibility to create more inclusive, supportive, and engaging digital learning experiences. This event explores how we can collectively improve the digital life of international students across the M25 region.</p>
<p>Join us online or face to face at the University of Stirling in the Jisc Innovation Hub for our annual get-together. We'll hear updates from across the Scottish educator sector (ALT, Education Scotland, College Sector, Jisc, QAA Scotland), and there will be interactive sessions on blended learning, AI developments, and MOOCs and microcredentials. Those participating in person will get a demo of the Jisc learning lab and Stirling's approach to blended learning.</p>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eZvSuPobSkX-Bax_LepehBwM_L2WgEfy7LGA... the programme. </a></p>
<p>In this webinar, Jane and Chris are joined by Amanda Wakaruk from the University of Alberta to discuss the findings from their 2023 research project to investigate copyright anxiety in higher education in Canada and the UK. The research is due to be published in the Journal of Copyright Education and Librarianship, but get a sneak preview of their findings and recommendations at this webinar.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.2; margin-top:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Join Constance Henry, a technology enhanced learning enthusiast, for a friendly and practical introduction to HeyZine flipbooks – a simple but effective way to bring your resources to life. This session will explore how flipbooks can be used across all ages and stages of education, from showcasing student work to creating interactive guides, handbooks, and learning materials. You'll see how easy it is to add videos, audio, links, and images, making your content more engaging and accessible. Whether you're supporting learners in the classroom, online, or in community settings, HeyZine offers a creative, user-friendly platform to enhance what you already do.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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We are refreshing the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) East regional group, with a renewed focus is on building stronger regional connections. We are also collaborating with the East Midlands group to widen the opportunities for sharing and collaboration.</p>
<p>Our aim is to set up a regular series of collaborative online sessions. These sessions will provide a forum to discuss key issues, challenges, opportunities, and shared ambitions in technology-enhanced learning within our regional community.</p>
<p>This initial session is a crucial opportunity to gather interested individuals. We will discuss the direction and focus of the revitalised group, identify the most pressing needs and opportunities for our community, and begin building a supportive regional network. If you work (or live) in the East Midlands or East England we would be delighted if you would be involved. Please be prepared to bring any ideas for what you might like to see discussed in sessions, or how we might support each other going forward.</p>
<p>To mark the relaunch of ALT Cymru we will be having a virtual 'coffee and chat'. Our first order of business is to get to know our members and what it is you would like to get from this group. Please come along and say hello and have a virtual coffee. We hope to make these a regular event with a different theme for discussion. FOr this first one as well as a hello we thought it would be great to talk about AI and the Welsh Language! So any concerns, issues or ideas you've got about how AI is working (or not) in Welsh please come and share.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">The next meeting of the ALT-ELESIG Scotland group is an excellent opportunity to share practice, evaluation and research into learners' experiences of technology enhanced learning and assessment. We have a great afternoon planned with a variety of presentations across the theme of 'Sustainability in Tertiary Education'. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HISPGrKToRxBmNOOWHDGtn1-gjOGPpgb/edi... style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif"><span style="color:#1155cc"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none"><span style="text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Read the full programme and presenter biographies here</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=t0SZ-E5Kp06RVjKZ80EW... style="font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif"><span style="color:#1155cc"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none"><span style="text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Register Here,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></p>
<p>Join us for a half day workshop on copyright law, tailored to anyone working with learning technology.</p>
<p>Delivered by ALT CoOL SIG Chairs, Chris Morrison and Jane Secker, it is aimed at learning technologists and related staff in education. No knowledge of copyright is assumed prior to the course.</p>
<p>This half-day workshop uses <a href="https://copyrightliteracy.org/about-2/copyright-the-card-game/">Copyright the Card Game</a> to establish a baseline level of knowledge and to give practical examples and scenarios about how copyright relates to the work of learning technologists and those in the field of digital education.<br />
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<li>The ability to apply the basics of UK copyright law to the primary activities of learning technology</li>
<li>An awareness and understanding of the main licences and copyright exceptions that are relevant to those working in this field</li>
<li>An understanding of issues related to copyright and digital education / online learning including: digitising content for online, using born digital resources, using digital media and lecture recording and copyright in the connected environment.<br />
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Are you keen to engage in research but barriers prevent progress? Professional service staff possess unique perspectives that could transform educational practices, yet face significant hurdles when attempting to formalize, conduct, and share this valuable knowledge as research—even when its potential impact is substantial. ALT-ELESIG + the Heads of ELearning Forum are running this session to share the experience of barriers and enablers to doing research. Email </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="mailto:j.c.turner@ljmu.ac.uk" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif"><span style="color:#1155cc"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none"><span style="text-decoration-skip-ink:none">j.c.turner@ljmu.ac.uk</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-variant:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"> to attend.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>