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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...
<p><strong>Presenter: </strong>
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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>
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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...
<p><strong>Presenter: Melissa Highton</strong></p>
<p>‘What digital leaders really say about their female and black colleagues and why’.<br />
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This is an opportunity to give feedback on recommendations arising from a piece of research which will be published soon. Digital leaders in universities have been interviewed to gain an understanding of their attitudes towards equality, diversity and inclusion. In this session you will get insights into what they said and how this relates to you as learning technology professionals. The session will include discussion of personal and professional risk and the decisions we make to lead change in a nuanced and balanced way. It may also provide a starting point for you to do further research within your own organisation.</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>Presenters: Daniel Clark & Phil Anthony</strong></p>
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In this webinar, we will describe how we supported over five hundred academic staff in the transition to online teaching delivery. The digital ability levels of our academic colleagues and our use of learning technologies is broad and varied, and this posed a number of challenges for how we provided a supportive environment that was both inclusive and suitably engaging. From the outset we agreed that any support we provided would need to be inclusive and effective.<br />
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In this session, we will demonstrate how we managed to strike this balance. We will showcase the University of Kent’s Digitally Enhanced Education (DEE) course; a purpose-built and self-contained course designed to introduce colleagues to the principles of online teaching, the different tools and technologies at their disposal and the wider issues related to learning online. We will highlight how the course was designed to follow the ‘look and feel’ of a real online course, thereby demonstrating how carefully selected materials and a meaningful structure can positively impact the online learning experience.<br />
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We will also discuss how the DEE course has provided a platform in which to launch the hugely popular Digitally Enhanced Education webinar series; a collection of webinars hosted by academic colleagues from both inside and outside of Kent where they have the opportunity to share practice and reflect.<br />
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This session is ideal for those who are looking for practical ways of engaging their academic colleagues and sharing practice to enhance the online teaching experience.</p>