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<p>The ALT NI Committee is pleased to announce the date for this year’s Annual Event, 29 May 2019. This year the format will include shared experiences from our members, and abstracts are being accepted until 12 April. For full details see <a href="http://www.altni.com/event2019/">http://www.altni.com/event2019/</a></p>
<p>The next ALT West Midlands meeting takes place on Monday 18 March 2019, 10:00 - 15:30, at Warwick University.</p>
<p>Participants are invited to propose presentations or discussion / practical activities around any aspect of critical digital literacies e.g. e-portfolio use. reflective practice, open educational practice. </p>
<p>Places are limited. See full details at <a href="https://go.alt.ac.uk/2MTb2Fp">https://go.alt.ac.uk/2MTb2Fp</a></p>
<p>This event is taking place at Liverpool John Moores University on Wednesday 6 March 2019 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. See full details at <a href="https://go.alt.ac.uk/2MUEV84">https://go.alt.ac.uk/2MUEV84</a></p>
<p>The next Teaching and Learning Conversation (TLC) is on Tuesday 22 January at 12:00 – 13:00 (60 minutes) with <strong>J</strong><strong>ohn Hilsdon,</strong> independent counsellor and academic, formerly Associate Professor and Head of Learning Support and Wellbeing at the University of Plymouth.</p>
<p>This month’s TLC is titled ‘Learning Development Unboxed?’. “In this conversation I hope to elicit a view of Learning Development based on the notion that our mongrel-like profession, emerging in the UK since the 1990s, can help individuals resist being put into the institutional ‘boxes’ created for them by collectively devising creative learning practices for the benefit of students, staff and, by extension, society beyond the university. In this, I am inspired by Hannah Arendt’s notion of “a world in common” (1958), to see universities as places where we develop learning communities, and thinking outside of rigid boxes with narrow labels like ‘graduate skills’ and ‘employability’; to shape, instead, what Ron Barnett terms “feasible utopias,” albeit starting in small ways or in fleeting moments, to support learning for a sustainable world in common.”</p>
<p>Full details of this TLC and the presenter, and joining instructions, are available on the TLC website at: <a href="https://tlcwebinars.wordpress.com">https://tlcwebinars.wordpress.com</a>...
<p>This is the first online meeting of the ALT Assembly, following it's first face to face meeting on 20 February 2019. </p>
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<li><a href="/sites/alt.ac.uk/files/public/ALT%20Assembly%20Terms%20of%20Reference%202019.pdf" title="Link to ALT Assembly Terms of Reference 2019">ALT Assembly Terms of Reference 2019</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/148xcKsHXDjAQsL7m-toQD6fmVRuzMwJTOEEK... and notes for the meeting</a> (shared open doc)</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 new overarching committee advising the 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>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
<h2>10th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy</h2>
<div style="background:#eeeeee;border:1px solid #cccccc;padding:5px 10px;"><strong>Registration for OER19 is now closed</strong> as event is sold out. Please be aware that registration is <strong>not</strong> possible upon arrival on conference days. We do operate a waiting list so please contact <a href="mailto:enquiries@alt.ac.uk">enquiries@alt.ac.uk</a> or call +44 (0)1865 819 009.</div>
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The conference will be co-chaired by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin. Read <a href="https://oer19.oerconf.org/about/meet-the-oer19-co-chairs/">more about the conference co-chairs</a>.</p>
<p>We are looking forward to welcome you in Galway, when the OER Conference will focus on the following themes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Back to basics – asking difficult questions about open education:
<ul>
<li>Why open?</li>
<li>Open for whom?</li>
<li>Whose interests are served?</li>
<li>In what ways has the open agenda been appropriated, and what are the implications of this?</li>
</ul>
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<li>The geopolitics of open education, bringing open in from the periphery</li>
<li>The open ecosystem: How is open education part of the broader ecosystem of “opens”?</li>
<li>What does it mean to illuminate open by considering context?</li>
<li>How can historical perspectives contribute to understanding the issues faced in the open education movement today?</li>
<li>Links between critical digital literacies, critical data literacies, and openness</li>
<li>What open business models are emerging? What are the paths to sustainability?</li>
<li>What are the risks and challenges to the open education agenda?</li>
</ul>
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To find out more about this event, <a href="https://oer19.oerconf.org/" title="Link to OEr19 site">https://oer19.oerconf.org/</a>, where you find out more about sessions that will be live streamed, or follow <a href="https://twitter.com/OERConf?lang=en-gb" target="_blank" title="Link to OER Twitter account">@OERConf</a> and look for #oer19.</p>
<p><strong>Please note:</strong> The launch webinars for Associate and Senior CMALT are being re-scheduled with a new date yet to be confirmed.</p>
<p>This webinar celebrates the launch of Senior CMALT, a new accreditation pathway for Learning Technology professionals.</p>
<p>Come along to the webinar and find out more about Senior CMALT, which is specifically for advanced professionals whose role includes management/leadership or research focus. </p>
<p><strong>Please note:</strong> The launch webinars for Associate and Senior CMALT are being re-scheduled with a new date yet to be confirmed.</p>
<p>This webinar celebrates the launch of Associate CMALT, a new accreditation pathway for Learning Technology professionals.</p>
<p>Come along to the webinar and find out more about Associate CMALT, which is specifically for early career professionals and those for whom Learning Technology is a smaller part of their role. </p>
<p>In 2018, an open pilot of the Jisc ‘Student digital experience’ survey (now the Jisc ‘Insights’ service) collected data from more than 30,000 UK students at college and university. More than 20,000 students took part from universities in Australia and New Zealand, which provided an alternative context for studying the findings. A parallel pilot study collected data from almost 2000 UK teaching staff. Organisational leads at each of the participating institutions provided insights into aspects of their digital learning strategy and infrastructure, while external metrics were used, where available, to enrich our understanding of the organisational contexts. </p>
<p>The primary purpose of these surveys was to engage local stakeholders and create actionable findings for local development initiatives. However, the availability of such a large and rich international dataset has led to a number of synthesis projects and reports, summarising the findings. A total of 93 organisations provided valid data to support these analyses. The final report on UK students was launched at ALT-C in September and is available from the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jisc.ac.uk/digital-experience-i... href="https://www.jisc.ac.uk/digital-experience-insights" target="_blank">Insights web portal</a>, along with briefings and other resources.</p>
<p>At this joint Alt-Jisc webinar, Helen Beetham, one of the developers and analysts of the survey (with Tabetha Newman) will:</p>
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<li>report on the findings of the UK staff survey</li>
<li>compare staff and student findings</li>
<li>explain how factor analysis has validated the concept of the ’student digital experience’ and the survey instrument itself</li>
<li>touch on the findings from Australia/NZ and significant differences from the UK</li>
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<p>There will be a chance to ask questions, share local findings and experiences of using the surveys, and explore future opportunities.</p>
<p>This year we have invited the 2018 winners to present at a series of webinars - to share details of the excellent work, practice or research that led to their award: <a href="https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2018/awardsvoting/">https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2018/a...
<p>Please book to join us for some lunchtime inspiration with two of the 2018 winning entries from Alice Gallagher & Elizabeth Ellis - A Survey of the Learning Behaviour of Open University Students and Chris Bell - University of Derby - Technology-Enhanced Learning team:</p>
<p>Alice Gallagher and Elizabeth Ellis - A Survey of the Learning Behaviour of Open University Students - Highly commended in the Research project of the year Award 2018 <br />
This project is the culmination of 18 months’ work seeking to understand how best to utilise new technologies for the benefit of distance learning students at The Open University.<br />
Ellis, E.; Gallagher, A. and Peasgood, A. (2018). A Survey of the Learning Behaviour of Open University students. The Open University. <a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/55590/">http://oro.open.ac.uk/55590/</a></p>
<p>Chris Bell - University of Derby - Technology-Enhanced Learning team, Highly Commended for the Team Award 2018. <br />
The Technology-Enhanced Learning Team at the University of Derby bring passion and creativity to their work. In the last year they have developed and are leading on the implementation of a new institutional <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aCKoSnBHMY&feature=youtu.be">TEL Strategy 2017-2021</a> delivering excellence across four key areas: Digital Practice, Digital Capability, Digital Infrastructure and a Data & Research informed approach.</p>
<p>Established in 2007, the <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/awards">ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Awards </a>celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the Learning Technology field, and aim to promote intelligent use of Learning Technology on a national scale. The Awards are open to individuals and teams based anywhere in the world.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-21cfa8d4-7fff-4f3c-aae9-5162ba8e1b5e">The webinar will run in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, and we will issue joining instructions approximately three days prior to the event. Even if you are familiar with Blackboard, it is important that you check in advance that your system and connection are capable of handling a session. More support on using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is available from <a href="https://help.blackboard.com/Collaborate/Ultra/Participant">https://help...., and refer to the guidance at <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs">https://www.alt.ac.uk/events/...