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Start Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Description:

All FE and training friends are invited to come along to the next meeting of the #AmplifyFE Community Space

More details to come.

Register your interest to attend below.

Amplify FE works to connect and amplify communities of practice for digital learning, teaching and assessment. The AmplifyFE Community Space works across the whole Further Education and Training sector in its widest terms engaging with vocational educators and those who support them.

The aim of this space is to:

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Provide a place for vocational educators to share and learn from each other, increasing their access to learning technology expertise, digital pedagogy and professional development opportunities
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Champion the use of accessible, inclusive learning technology to help those adult learners most impacted by the digital divide so that more people in the UK have improved access to vocational skills
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Engage with FE groups and communities of practice and researchers in vocational learning to share best practice
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Work across the whole Further Education and Training sector in its widest terms engaging with vocational educators and those who support them in FE Colleges, Adult and Community Learning (ACL), work-based and independent learning providers, prison learning, ESOL communities, ‘HE in FE’ providers, the whole, diverse sector.
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To amplify the voice of professionals in strategic developments across the sector, led by organisations including ALT and Ufi.
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As Amplify FE Community Space members and guests we will:

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Celebrate and amplify the work done by FE and Training educators and supporters in vocational learning
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Use welcoming and inclusive language
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Be respectful of different viewpoints and experiences
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Be allies to each other both in this community and beyond
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Be active listeners
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Be conscious and respectful of the challenges of sharing personal or sensitive stories and (upholding Chatham House rules unless a participant specifically requests that details be shared freely beyond the group).
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<a href="https://amplifyfe.alt.ac.uk/" style="text-decoration:none">Learn more about #AmplifyFE</a> and our new <a href="https://amplifyfe.alt.ac.uk/amplifyfe-community-space/">Community Space</a>.

Title: AmplifyFE Community Space Meeting

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_735_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 735

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=735

Start Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Description:

Webinar 49: 6 May 2022 – Copyright and accessibility, Kate Vasili

https://copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-events/webinars-copyright-and-onl...

Title: COOLSIG Webinar 49 - Copyright and accessibility

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_734_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 734

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=734

Start Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Description:

TechThursdays are the regular monthly meeting of ALT South. They take place online, 12-1 p.m. on the last Thursday of each month.

Feel free to bring your lunch and come and discuss your learning technology-related challenges, developments, ideas, and research opportunities. The meetings are informal, it's a chat amongst friends. No recording, so everyone feels comfortable speaking freely. You can try out ideas, use the community as a sounding board, or just feel free to vent about something you feel strongly about. After all, we are all in this together!

Stephan Ford will be joining the ALT South TechThurday event. Stephen is Head of Digital Assessment at BPP University Law School. He will be speaking about the challenges of converting traditional assessments to online and the delight of simplifying assessment processes from drafting to marking. Turns out, it is really tricky. There will be time for questions and discussion after the talk. Do circulate to your network.

You can drop in whenever or stay for the whole session - whatever works for you.

Learn more about ALT South <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/alt-...

Title: TechThursdays - ALT South Meeting

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_732_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 732

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=732

Start Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Description:

TechThursdays are the regular monthly meeting of ALT South. They take place online, 12-1 p.m. on the last Thursday of each month.

You can drop in whenever or stay for the whole session - whatever works for you.

Learn more about ALT South <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/alt-...

Title: TechThursdays - ALT South Meeting

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_731_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 731

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=731

Start Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Description:

TechThursdays are the regular monthly meeting of ALT South. They take place online, 12-1 p.m. on the last Thursday of each month.

You can drop in whenever or stay for the whole session - whatever works for you.

Learn more about ALT South <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/alt-...

Title: Copy of TechThursdays - ALT South Meeting

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_730_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 730

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=730

Start Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Description:

TechThursdays are the regular monthly meeting of ALT South. They take place online, 12-1 p.m. on the last Thursday of each month.

You can drop in whenever or stay for the whole session - whatever works for you.

Learn more about ALT South <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/alt-...

Title: TechThursdays - ALT South Meeting

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_729_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 729

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=729

Start Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Description:

Hosted by the ALT East Midlands Group

The spring meeting of the East Midlands Learning Technologists (EMLT) group is due to take place as a webinar on Wednesday 8th June, 12:00-13:30.

This session will explore how our work as learning technologists can help to contribute to tackling the awarding gap. With some of these <a href="https://wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/the-black-awarding-gap-is-at-a-record-high/" style="text-decoration:none">differences increasing</a>, we need to consider how our practice and the advice and guidance we provide others can support flexible and inclusive practice which helps to reduce these gaps and leads to successful student outcomes.

Title: EMLT Webinar: Learning technology and the awarding gap

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_728_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 728

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=728

Start Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Description:

All FE and training friends are invited to come along to the launch event and first meeting of the #AmplifyFE Community Space on 06 May 2022.

During the event we will be asking you to help us chart the course of this new community.

Register your interest to attend below.

The aim of this space is to:

As Amplify FE Community Space members and guests we will:

Title: AmplifyFE Community Space Launch Event

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_727_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 727

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=727

Start Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:30:00 +0000

Description:

Digital Learning in Higher Education - COVID-19 and Beyond will be published in June. The pandemic is however still with us and any ‘new normal’ has yet to arrive. We (John Traxler and Matthew Smith) decided to celebrate the book but more importantly to think about where we are now and where we are heading. Many of our contributors and collaborators will convene for a webinar on Wednesday 15th June 12:30 – 2pm. We will share reflections, predictions, experiences and incidents from across the UK university sector, and invite participants to then share theirs.

Title: Digital Learning in Higher Education - COVID-19 and Beyond

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_726_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 726

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=726

Start Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Description:

Hosted by the ALT West Midlands Group

The UNESCO Chair in the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.wlv.ac.uk/research/institutes-a... href="https://www.wlv.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/education-observat... target="_blank">Education Observatory </a>at the University of Wolverhampton will be hosting two more informal free online meeting of the West Midlands Membership Group of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.alt.ac.uk&source=gmail&... href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/" target="_blank">ALT</a>, the Association for Learning Technology, to explore these issues with some challenging questions, fascinating insights and provocative ideas.

There is a global awareness of the extent to which our societies and our educational institutions, wherever they are, are permeated and dominated by the ideas, habits, values and structures of the white English majority culture. This awareness now is reflected in moves to ‘decolonise the curriculum’ (and to decolonise research methods, research ethics, and much else). This clearly begs questions about decolonising learning technology, questions about the extent to which our digital pedagogies, our digital technologies and us as learning technologists are complicit in this ignoring or suppressing of other ways of learning, understand and knowing, to the detriment of us all.

Webinar agenda:

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<li>Introductions</li>
<li>Reflections from our webinar (Nov ’21) with John Traxler</li>
<li>“Exploring how critical digital pedagogies of equity, diversity and inclusivity could be embedded in the online classroom” with Dr Sonja Strydom, Deputy Director (Academic Development & Research) at the Centre for Learning Technologies (CLT), Stellenbosch University</li>
<li>“Incorporating different ways of knowing and ways of being into course design: A reflection on MOOCs designers' positionalities and subjectivities” Dr Taskeen Adam, Associate Manager - Open Development & Education</li>
<li>Panel discussion</li>
<li>Open forum 
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Social media: Twitter hashtag for this webinar series: #ALTdecolonise

About our speakers:

Dr Sonja Strydom is a Senior Higher Education Advisor at the Centre for Learning Technologies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She obtained a DLitt et Phil (Psychology) in 2012 and a PhD (Curriculum Studies) in 2018. Her scholarly interests range from technology-augmented curriculum development, care perspectives, structure, agency & culture in HE as well as mixed research methodologies. Her current projects focus on the influences of post-humanist perspectives on curriculum and professional development practices.

Dr Taskeen Adam is an Associate Manager with Open Development & Education, and member of the <a href="mailto:https://edtechhub.org/team/taskeen-adam/" target="_blank">EdTech Hub</a>. She completed her PhD on  ‘Addressing Injustices through MOOCs: A study among peri-urban, marginalised South African youth’ at the University of Cambridge. Her research highlighted that historical injustices, cultural imposition, and economic dependence continue to play a pivotal role in education. Her MPhil thesis focused on the ‘Sustainable Implementation of the One Laptop per Child project in Rwanda’. Alongside her academic pursuits, she pioneered Khwela (a regional online course platform) and Solar Powered Learning in South Africa as well as Mobile Education for Smart Technology in India. Prior to her career shift to EdTech, she worked as an electrical engineer, specialising in measurement and control. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.opendeved.net/lib/?creator%3DA... href="https://docs.opendeved.net/lib/?creator=Adam&sort=date_desc" target="_blank">Publications available here</a>.

Title: ALTWM Webinar: Decolonising Learning Technology

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_725_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 725

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=725

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