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<p>TechThursdays are the regular monthly meeting of ALT South. They take place online, 12-1 p.m. on the last Thursday of each month.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>You can drop in whenever or stay for the whole session - whatever works for you.</p>
<p>Learn more about ALT South <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/alt-...
<p>TechThursdays are the regular monthly meeting of ALT South. They take place online, 12-1 p.m. on the last Thursday of each month.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>You can drop in whenever or stay for the whole session - whatever works for you.</p>
<p>Learn more about ALT South <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/alt-...
<p>TechThursdays are the regular monthly meeting of ALT South. They take place online, 12-1 p.m. on the last Thursday of each month.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>You can drop in whenever or stay for the whole session - whatever works for you.</p>
<p>Learn more about ALT South <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/alt-...
<p>TechThursdays are the regular monthly meeting of ALT South. They take place online, 12-1 p.m. on the last Thursday of each month.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>You can drop in whenever or stay for the whole session - whatever works for you.</p>
<p>Learn more about ALT South <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/alt-...
<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>All webinars take place in the same Blackboard Collaborate classroom at 11-12pm BST.<br />
Learn more about the <a data-mce-href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/groups/special-interest-groups/copyright-and-onlin... href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/groups/special-interest-groups/copyright-and-onlin... and Online Learning</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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In the new era of a big data world, educators can use data for designing their teaching in accordance with the students’ learning needs. Data helps to identify the students’ strengths and weaknesses; this will contribute to the ongoing improvement of teaching practices.<br />
We piloted data-driven teaching in the two mandatory modules for accounting and finance programmes. If the students fail the modules, they will not be able to progress to the next level of studies.<br />
Data from learning analytics as well as other relevant data sets including online quiz scores, weekly self-reflection comments, student attendance records etc., have been used to determine whether the students were actively or poorly engaged in the modules. We can then address any issues and adjust our teaching practice accordingly.<br />
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Using data to inform teaching is not new to educators. In the past, educators have been making their decisions based on their experience or the so-called valuable data in their head. With the advancement of educational technology, Learning Management Systems such as Canvas can provide larger and more complex data, i.e. learning analytics, for educational decision making.<br />
The data-driven teaching approach has helped us to identify the students at risk so that we can take appropriate actions to support them at an early stage. Through their ongoing self-reflection upon the learning analytics, students have become more independent and responsible learners. Despite the challenges during the pandemic, both modules have received positive student feedback and achieved good results.</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="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">The Committee will come together for the last time and make final preparations for the ALT Annual Conference 2021, on Tuesday 10 August 2021 at 4pm. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Learn more about the commitee via the following links; </p>
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<p><a href="https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2021/conference-committee/"><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="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Committee</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></p>
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<p><strong>This webinar will be held on 21st July from 2-3:30 PM (BST) hosted by Chris Morrison and Jane Secker Co-chairs of the ALT CoOL SIG.</strong></p>
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<p>It is aimed at those working in education establishments who have received copyright infringement claims from picture agencies for their use of photographs, some of which are Creative Commons licensed. There are a number of individuals who appear to be deliberately uploading openly licensed photos to sites such as Flickr using older Creative Commons licences that specify images need to be attributed in a particular way. You can read more about this practice in a recent article in Computer Weekly: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252488167/Automated-image-recognitio...
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<p>We will be joined by Andre Maingot from the Open University who will discuss how his institution has handled these claims. We will also be joined by Sarah Pearson and Brigitte Vezina from Creative Commons who will discuss good practice when using Creative Commons licensed content. The event will include short presentations but also be a workshop to discuss a shared approach from the UK education community to handling these claims in a way that doesn't encourage the practice some are calling 'copyright trolling.'</p>
<p>The session will be structured as follows:</p>
<p>Intro to the issue of copyright image trolling and the problems it’s causing universities, schools and colleges including some background on Pixsy and other agencies who look for possible copyright infringement in relation to image use (Jane and Chris) – 10 mins</p>
<p>Short case study from Open University on their experience and response (Andre Maingot) – 10 mins</p>
<p>Response from Creative Commons (Sarah Pearson) – 15 mins</p>
<p>Group activity to share experiences - to find out frequency it’s happening / what people have done and could be done - break-out room discussions – 30 mins</p>
<p>Next steps / any possible solutions and wrap up – 15 mins</p>
<p>This is a closed session only for those working in the education sector. Please complete the registration form and you will be sent joining instructions.</p>
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<p><strong>Register here </strong>- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/photographs-and-copyright-infringement-cl... />
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<strong>More information -</strong> https://copyrightliteracy.org/contact/</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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After a year of experimentation with remote instruction, institutions in the Asia-Pacific region and other regions are planning how remote learning can create versatile, sustainable and disruption-resilient learning opportunities in the future. However, teachers currently may not know how state-of-the-art learning technologies and educational development practices can support sustainable virtual instruction. Therefore, different organisations are organising various professional development initiatives on virtual instruction.<br />
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In the webinar, two professional development initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region will be explained in detail:<br />
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[Empowering Teachers for the Next-Stage Teaching with Emerging Learning Technologies]<br />
In this initiative, we want to provide cross-region professional development webinars during Summer 2021 on educational technologies and educational development for virtual instruction. Some of the training topics include i) Artificial Intelligence for Teaching, Learning and Assessment, ii) Open Educational Resources (OER) and OER-enabled Learning, and iii) Engineering Education for the Next-Normal. This initiative is supported by IEEE Region 10 Educational Activities Committee.<br />
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[Empowering University Teaching Centres for the Next-Stage Virtual Teaching]<br />
In this initiative, we aim to analyse the impact of COVID-19 e-teaching training programmes in universities as well as identify common training needs and recommended practices for virtual instruction in the next stage. Therefore, we are conducting studies to answer the following questions: How should we help teachers develop competencies for remote instruction through various types of training, training methods and training media? How should we facilitate change among stakeholders (students, teachers, supporting staff) for virtual instruction in the next stage? This initiative is supported by the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong.</p>