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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>All webinars take place in the same Blackboard Collaborate classroom at 11-12pm BST.</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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<strong>Shahrzad Ardavani</strong></p>
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Within the discipline of TESOL, there is an enduring focus on the differences of Native English-Speaking Teachers (NESTs), and Non-Native English-Speaking Teachers (NNESTs), their strength and weaknesses, dating back to the pioneering work of Medgyes (1994), who viewed these two groups as ‘two different species’. What is to be the role of this dichotomy within an online environment of a MOOC-based CPD? This research attempts to answer this question by applying Holiday’s theoretical framework of small and large cultures in an investigation of NESTs and NNESTs lived experience whilst reflecting on their interaction, involved in cooperative learning. To this end, the data on six in-service ELTs were collected using Hermeneutic phenomenology. The analysis indicates that the dichotomy of NESTs and NNESTs were largely redundant for participants.</p>
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<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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<strong>Gavin Henrick & Karen Holland</strong></p>
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There are different types of instructional materials and assessment activities that teachers may use in teaching and learning situations. It includes physical materials used in classroom scenarios, or digital materials like documents, multimedia, web pages and images used in online or blended learning.<br />
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When is it best to think about accessibility of the content or the activities?- when you plan it? When you have it scoped and budgeted? afterwards?<br />
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What first steps should developers follow to help make materials and activities accessible to all users?<br />
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In this session, we take a look at instructional materials through the lens of design affordances.<br />
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<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>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...
<p><strong>Presenter: Jane Fitzgerald </strong></p>
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Over the years, we have all honed our teaching skills to deliver sessions that are both engaging and collaborative, on the basis that students learn more when they are actively engaging with the materials and with eachother. We have, perhaps, been spoiled for choice with software that has enhanced our teaching in the classroom. Additionally, we have worked to develop peer support structures for our students so that they don’t feel as though they are working and worrying alone – those student relationships are what can make all the difference to individual success and failure.<br />
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When our Universities and colleges went into lockdown back in March 2020, our main concern initially was how we were going to deliver the materials to them on-line (or remotely) at all; as time has gone on, two separate concerns have emerged:<br />
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1. How can we develop and promote peer support for students who may never have met eachother and<br />
2. How can we provide an inclusive and interactive “classroom” experience in an exclusively digital world?<br />
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Whether you deliver your sessions purely on-line or remotely via Teams, this webinar aims to provide some thoughts about these two important teaching areas and some ideas on how Teams and other integrated software can be used to provide an experience as close to the classroom as it is possible to get through a screen. This is a practical session and participants are invited to bring their own issues, solutions or ideas to share and develop.<br />
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<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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Alexander Mikroyannidis</p>
<p>Blockchain technology offers a decentralised peer-to-peer infrastructure, where privacy, secure archiving, consensual ownership, transparency, accountability, identity management and trust are built-in, both at the software and infrastructure levels. This technology offers opportunities to thoroughly rethink how we find educational content and tutoring services online, how we register and pay for them, as well as how we get accredited for what we have learned and how this accreditation affects our career trajectory. The QualiChain research and innovation project (https://qualichain-project.eu) focuses on the assessment of the technical, political, socio-economic, legal and cultural impact of decentralised solutions on education. QualiChain investigates the creation, piloting and evaluation of decentralised solutions for storing, sharing and verifying education and employment qualifications and explores the potential of Blockchain technology for disrupting the domain of public education, as well as its interfaces with private education, the labour market, public sector administrative procedures and the wider socio-economic developments. This webinar will explore the different aspects of lifelong learning that can be facilitated by Blockchain technology and decentralisation. More specifically, the webinar will be focused on the ways that education and employment qualifications can be awarded, managed and verified on the Blockchain, as well as how lifelong learners can receive personalised job or course recommendations based on the qualifications they have acquired. Participants will also have the opportunity to acquire hands-on experience using the tools offered by the QualiChain project for facilitating lifelong learning.</p>
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<p>This webinar is available for candidates registered for CMALT and planning or working on their portfolios. The webinar will cover the structure of the CMALT portfolio, frequently asked questions, and the submission and assessment process. There will be an opportunity to ask questions. Please note you must be a registered CMALT candidate in order to attend this webinar.</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...
<p>Presenter: Miranda Melcher</p>
<p>In November 2020, over 500 students participated in surveys and focus groups to feedback on their needs, wants, and current assessment of digital accessibility provisions at King's College London. This webinar will discuss the key findings and perspectives from students, in order to highlight priorities and recommendations based on real-time student feedback across a huge and diverse university.</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...
<p>Pressenter: Katie Stripe</p>
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The move to digital gives course designers and teachers an opportunity to look at diversity and inclusion through a less restrictive lens and make course content representative of a cohort. Changing the demographic of a department or teaching team takes time and is outside the scope of most individuals but changing and adapting the demographics of the content is relatively simple and could have a huge impact on student feelings of inclusion.<br />
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In the Attributes and Aspirations course at Imperial College London we have tried to do this by using personas, or what we have named the ‘AA Avatars’. These give our content faces and histories that we hope add a visible element of diversity to our online course.<br />
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This webinar will look at how our AA Avatars were created, discuss the different elements of diversity that could/should form part of a potential persona/avatar, and move into a discussion allowing participants to explore this further in their own contexts.<br />
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We will then look at how our AA Avatars have been developed further and embedded as an integral part of our course. Once again, moving into discussions of how this can be achieved in the contexts of participants. We will share templates and prompt questions that have helped us, and that can be used and adapted in other fields.</p>
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<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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<strong>Kevin Brace</strong></p>
<p>During the winter/spring of 2020 we were given notice that a planned move to a new Learning Experience Platform (LXP) was now going to be accelerated. The notice of lockdown one (Feb' 2020) had shifted the LXP plans forward by 6 months... And so, we as a TELs Team were now facing the twin challenge of upskilling all staff to be able to deliver learning online - and prepare for the transition to a new LXP. My story charts this frenetic journey during the summer terms of 2020 - and beyond...Strap yourself in for the ride...</p>
<p>* recording unavailable for this webinar</p>