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<p>We invite you to join us for the 2021 Awards Showcase and Ceremony on 16th December 2021. These sessions are free to attend, and open to all and will be hosted by President of ALT, David White. </p>
<p><strong>16:15 Awards Showcase<br />
17:00 Awards Ceremony</strong></p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/awards" title="Link to Awards page">ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Awards</a> celebrate and reward excellent research and practice and outstanding achievement in Learning Technology.</p>
<p>Established in 2007, the Awards have established a benchmark for outstanding achievement in Learning Technology on a national scale and attract competitive entries from the UK and internationally. All entries are reviewed by an independent judging panel chaired by the President of ALT. </p>
<p>Deatils to be confirmed - https://copyrightliteracy.org/upcoming-events/webinars-copyright-and-onl...
<p>ELESIG Scotland Online Meeting - 26th November 2021 (1pm - 4.30pm)</p>
<p><a href="https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=t0SZ-E5Kp06RVjKZ80EW... Here</a><br />
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Since the move to a predominantly online way of teaching over the last year, there has been much discussion around the experiences of staff, and developments in course delivery that have been used to respond to this change. <br />
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But what about the learners themselves: What has been their experience? and how are we using that experience in our future plans for teaching?<br />
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This is a good opportunity to hear about and share experiences of anything to do with learners experiences of technology.<br />
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Please complete this form to register for the event. Feel free to pass on the link to this form to any colleagues who you think might be interested in attending.<br />
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Avril & Mary (Alt-ELESIG Scotland Co-leads)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Are you all webinar-ed out? Did you find the pandemic raised tricky issues about access to study materials in your institution? Was there confusion about how best to support your students and staff at a distance? Did you have access to resources you needed to support your own development needs?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Feel like you are being tossed around in an ocean of questions??</p>
<p dir="ltr">Open Education SIG would like to help.</p>
<p dir="ltr">We would like to invite you to join us in our Open House events. Pop along to join us, share your experiences and insights. Sessions will not be recorded, you can speak freely and without judgement. Some topics will be suggested but there will also be space for you to raise new ones. We hope to get a clearer picture of the challenges we all face in these uncertain times and maybe throw out some lifebelts. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Thurs Nov 18th 2021, 1:00 PM GMT</p>
<p dir="ltr"> Join us to contribute to discussions around:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Link Rot: how to prevent loss of resources</p>
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Joining instructions will be shared Twitter #openhouse and to the Open Ed Sig Jiscmailing list</p>
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<p><b>Rod Cullen & Orlagh McCabe will be sharing their Active Learning Journeys and the TREC model</b></p>
<p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial">Learn more about the <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/groups/special-interest-groups/active-learning-sig... Learning SIG here.</a> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p>Webinar 44: 12th November 2021 – Becoming a copyright specialist. Presentations and discussions with institutional copyright specialists reflecting on their experiences and opportunities for supporting the community. </p>
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<p>These weekly webinars hosted by the Association of Learning Technology (ALT) started on Friday 20th March in response to queries largely from those in higher education related to copyright and online learning following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to online learning.</p>
<p>The webinars are free to all and aimed at those interested in talking about copyright challenges at the current time and how we can address them. We have <a href="https://copyrightliteracy.org/2020/03/18/copyright-fair-dealing-and-onli... a page full of resources</a> and the original blog post that led to us starting this series on <a href="https://copyrightliteracy.org/2020/03/18/copyright-fair-dealing-and-onli..., Fair Dealing and Online Teaching in a time of Crisis</a>.</p>
<p>No registration is required to join these events which will be hosted in the following <a href="https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/b0ed6c888307480ba897751a57f93713">Blackboard Collaborate classroom</a> and are listed on the <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/events">ALT website</a>.</p>
<p>Details of the webinars in reverse chronological order are listed below. We have also set up a playlist of the most recent webinars on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxoWy14N6f8tSHes4OhkB6YAzIc6U0U85... You Tube channel</a>. All webinars take place in the same Blackboard Collaborate classroom at 11-12pm BST unless otherwise stated</p>
<h3><strong>Save The Date</strong></h3>
<p>The ALT Annual Conference is the UK's main conference for Learning Technologists and one of the largest conferences of its kind. It is held over three days every September, providing a valuable and practical forum for practitioners, researchers, managers and policy-makers from education and industry to solve problems, explore, reflect, influence and learn.</p>
<p>The<strong> </strong>next <strong>Annual Conference of the Association for Learning Technology</strong> will take place from 6-8 September 2022, in Manchester. </p>
<p><a href="https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2022/">Learn More</a></p>
<p><strong>Hosted by the ALT West Midlands Group</strong></p>
<p>There is a global awareness of the extent to which our societies and our educational institutions 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, not to mention #RhodesMustFall). 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.</p>
<p>The Education Observatory (<a href="https://www.wlv.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/education-observat... rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wlv.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/education-observat...) at the University of Wolverhampton will be hosting an informal free online meeting of the West Midlands SIG of ALT, the Association for Learning Technology, <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.alt.ac.uk</a>, to explore these issues with some challenging questions, fascinating insights and provocative ideas.</p>
<p>If you would also like to offer a talk or discussion topic, please contact Prof John Traxler (john.traxler@wlv.ac.uk), or Dr John Couperthwaite (johncouperthwaite@gmail.com)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/decolonising-learning-technology-tickets-18... ">Register now to reserve your place... </a></p>
<p>This webinar is part of our 2021 CPD webinar sessions. Participants will earn an ALT CPD Open Badge which can be used as evidence towards accreditation via one of the pathways in ALT’s CMALT framework. </p>
<p>If you missed a previous CPD webinar, recordings are available over on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxoWy14N6f8tFKcS0upwrA9PAvwyemw5c...
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Glen Campey and Dr Terry Charlton</p>
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In the lead-up to the 2020/21 academic year, the School of Engineering at Newcastle University were undergoing some changes to their Undergraduate delivery, looking to combine four programmes – Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Marine Engineering – into one ‘Flexible Stage One’, where Engineering students gain a good overall foundation before specialising during Stage 2.<br />
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In order to accommodate the increased numbers of students, the school planned to move to a more blended learning delivery, allowing for greater flexibility in delivering lectures and lab-based activities. This also coincided with a switch to an improved VLE platform, which would enable the use of online tools to assist with remote delivery.<br />
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The arrival of the pandemic meant that changes to the plan were necessary, as teaching would have to move fully online. This meant adjustments, to labs in particular, to enable students to still meet the learning objectives by completing labs remotely.<br />
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In this webinar, we will discuss how we created and delivered these labs: from how they were structured in a new VLE, to the different methods used to enable students to complete the labs from home.</p>
<p>This webinar is part of our 2021 CPD webinar sessions. Participants will earn an ALT CPD Open Badge which can be used as evidence towards accreditation via one of the pathways in ALT’s CMALT framework. </p>
<p>If you missed a previous CPD webinar, recordings are available over on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxoWy14N6f8tFKcS0upwrA9PAvwyemw5c...
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Joanna Wild, Veronika Schaeffler and Ravi Murugesan </p>
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Over the past decade, INASP (an international development organisation based in Oxford) has developed and implemented a wide range of technology enhanced learning (TEL) activities in the Global South, mainly in Africa, Asia and Latin America. These activities have primarily been targeted at adults, and often graduates, working within knowledge and research systems such as universities, libraries, scholarly journals and academic societies. Earlier this year, we carried out a comprehensive meta-analysis study of our TEL activities. On the basis of our synthesis of INASP’s evidence, we tested six key assumptions prevalent in the academic literature around TEL in the Global South. In this presentation we w highlight the unique points in INASP’s TEL activities to advance knowledge and best practice in this area.</p>