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<p>The <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/how-we-are-governed/alt-assembly">ALT Assembly</a> meets monthly online, with two annual face-to-face meetings in February and September.</p>
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<li>ALT Assembly <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/alt.ac.uk/files/public/ALT%20Assembly%20Term... of Reference 2019</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/148xcKsHXDjAQsL7m-toQD6fmVRuzMwJTOEEK... and Notes</a> for the meeting (shared open doc)</li>
<li><a href="https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/ab2f4f36072f46528b508ba6f5f2298b">Link to join the meeting</a></li>
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<p>The webinar will run in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. If you have not used Collaborate Ultra before, it may be helpful to consult our webinar FAQs at <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs">https://www.alt.ac.uk/events/...
<p>The Assembly is the overarching Member committee advising the ALT Board of Trustees. The Assembly is chaired by the President of ALT, Martin Weller, and provides greater representation for Members and in particular Member groups, in the governance of the Association. </p>
<p>This meeting is open to all Members of ALT who are Members of the ALT Assembly, including:</p>
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<li>Editors of the blog and journal</li>
<li>Members of the Editorial Board</li>
<li>Members representing Conference Committees</li>
<li>Members representing Member Groups</li>
<li>Members representing Special Interest Groups</li>
<li>Honorary Life Members</li>
<li>CMALT Lead Assessors</li>
<li>Members involved in CMALT development</li>
<li>Trustees</li>
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<p>Equality and diversity are at the very heart of the values of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) which inform all aspects of our activities and services. We aim to be open, transparent, inclusive, democratic, fair and free from discrimination in order to best meet the needs of all our members, ALT staff and the wider community. </p>
<p>Equality is for everyone and we all have a role to ensure that we promote equality within the field of Learning Technology. As part of this webinar Dr Maren Deepwell and Martin Hawksey explored equality as a challenge for Learning Technology professionals and discuss the new findings from ALT’s Annual Survey.</p>
<p>If you missed this event you can <a href="https://go.alt.ac.uk/equal-recording">view the webinar recording</a> and the <a href="https://go.alt.ac.uk/equal">sessions slides</a> have been shared under a Creative Commons licence.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e228c55-7fff-ee5c-63fe-0f4d4073861c">The theme for the Spring meeting of the ALT EMLT group is "Designing assessments for anonymous marking". This event will explore anonymous marking and how we need to think carefully about how assessment design has a key role to play in making this truly anonymous. During the event we will discuss why anonymous marking is a ‘hot’ topic in the learning technology community, where some of the issues around implementing this are, and how considering the assessment design is an important part of this process. As usual we would like to hear from our community about any experiences they would like to share on this topic. In particular, from those who already have anonymous marking or those looking to introduce this approach soon. If you are interested in providing a short presentations – 10 minutes – please complete this form: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/dsLJk9rPWKsFIxZH3">https://goo.gl/forms/dsLJk9rPWKs.... Find out more and register: <a href="https://go.alt.ac.uk/2TEa5Hv">https://go.alt.ac.uk/2TEa5Hv</a> </b></p>
<p>Online meeting of the ALT Playful Learning Special Interest Group - open to all, new members especially welcome.</p>
<p>See <a href="https://altc.alt.ac.uk/plsig/">https://altc.alt.ac.uk/plsig/</a> an... href="https://altc.alt.ac.uk/plsig/meetings-1819/">https://altc.alt.ac.uk/plsi...
<p>A meeting of the ALT M25 Learning Technology Group based on the theme of 'Any technology is educational technology'. </p>
<p><strong>Agenda</strong></p>
<p>13:00 Lunch</p>
<p>14:00 Welcome to Imperial College London<br />
Introduction to the IMPLEMnT project</p>
<p>15:15 Break/refreshments</p>
<p>15:45 Examples of technologies used for education:</p>
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<li>SLACK lessons from Brighton and Sussex Medical School - CJ Taylor, Jonathan Sadler and Nicholas Feather, Brighton and Sussex Medical School</li>
<li>Communication and collaboration with Microsoft Teams - Amy Icke, The Girls’ Day School Trust</li>
<li>Keep the discussion going: How to use Slack to foster collaboration in an online community - MSc Business Analytics - Nai Li and Matt Smoker-Mulhern, Imperial College London</li>
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<p>16:30 Discussion - Sonja Grussendorf</p>
<p>The next ALT North East meeting will take place on the 12th of April at Sunderland University, 10.00am – 4.00pm. </p>
<p>Come along to connect with colleagues and share amazing work happening at institutions in the North East of England.</p>
<p>For further information contact <a href="mailto:membership@alt.ac.uk?subject=ALT%20North%20East%20meeting%2012%20...@alt.ac.uk</a></p>
<p>The next Teaching and Learning Conversation (TLC) is on <strong>Wednesday 13th March at 12:00 – 13:00</strong> (60 minutes) with Anna Clare Hunter Senior Lecturer in Academic Development at the University of Central Lancashire.</p>
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“In this conversation we will be exploring the potential of collage making as a tool for academic development, and for teaching and learning more widely. Drawing on the work of Daphne Loads (2010; 2016; 2017) I will be discussing the importance of such arts based methods for connecting learners with their own perceptions, and enabling connections between individuals to enhance learning communities.”</p>
<p>Full details of this TLC, the presenter, and how to join are available on the TLC website at: <a href="https://tlcwebinars.wordpress.com/">https://tlcwebinars.wordpress.com</a... />
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<p>An opportunity to hear about open practices in education and to discuss barriers to adoption as part of Open Education week 2019.</p>
<p>We will be joined by <strong>Shona Whyte</strong>, Associate Professor of English at Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France who will share her findings from research into teacher adoption of open practices. Her presentation is entitled: <strong>Adopting open practices in schools: a CALL teacher education study</strong>.</p>
<p>We will then facilitate a discussion around barriers to adoption of open practices amongst teachers in different contexts and welcome your experiences and tips for supporting adoption.</p>
<p>The session will take place online on Wednesday 6th March at 9.30am UK. <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Adopting+open+... time where you are</a>.</p>
<p>Link to join: <a href="https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/b2ce1323c4cd43bea944a7945cc3302c">https://...
<p>The webinar will take place on Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. If you haven't used Blackboard Collaborate Ultra before, take a moment to look at our webinar FAQs and make sure you're set up before the event: <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs">https://www.alt.ac.uk/events/...
<p>Women are leading and participating in great achievements in the Open Movement, and we have much more to contribute. Javiera Atenas, Frances Bell and Caroline Kuhn will facilitate speakers and other participants in exploring our topic during this free webinar.</p>
<p>Invited speakers will explore what women do in the different areas of openness, how women are fostering a culture of openness and collaboration and how they are changing the landscape in education, data, science and governance. We aim to map good practices that engage fellow women who want to get involved in Open Science, Open Data, Open Education and Open Government.</p>
<p>We are lining up a great set of women - watch out on @A_L_T, #femedtech and @okfnedu for speakers, each of whom will speak briefly on their Open Practice, leaving plenty of time for questions and comments.</p>
<p>This webinar was recorded and the recording can be accessed at:</p>
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<p>Bios and additional resources at: <a href="http://bit.ly/WinOpen2019">http://bit.ly/WinOpen2019</a></p>
<p>The next Teaching and Learning Conversation (TLC) is on Tuesday 26th February at 12:00 – 13:00 (60 minutes) with Simon Thomson, Director, Centre for Innovation in Education, University of Liverpool. </p>
<p>This month’s TLC is titled ‘Digitally Supported Curriculum’. Simon passionately believes that digital tools and services offer fantastic opportunities for learning and teaching. However, in many Universities there is still often a segregation of TEL / E-Learning into separate units or departments and in some cases these are detached from academic or curriculum development services. Simon’s research is exploring the effectiveness and impact of the TPACK framework (Mishra & Koehler, 2006) as an academic development and curriculum development framework where we see “digital” as an integrated component of academic development and curriculum design (not a separate component). Simon proposes that we shift the positivist rhetoric from technology as an “enhancement” to learning (TEL) to one of critical discourse where we consider the use of “digital” as part of the wider curriculum design process through which we integrate digital when and where it adds value and we don’t use digital where it doesn’t.</p>
<p>Full details of this TLC and how to participate are available on the TLC website at: <a href="https://tlcwebinars.wordpress.com">https://tlcwebinars.wordpress.com</a>...