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<p><meta charset="utf-8" /><b id="docs-internal-guid-d4bff4d6-dfec-9b44-8c7e-49f0f832acac"><a href="https://oer17.oerconf.org/#gref" target="_blank">OER17</a> </b>presented an opportunity for open practitioners, activists, educators and policy makers to come together as a community to reflect on The Politics of Open. What are our current key challenges and strengths – locally, nationally, and internationally? What are our priorities – in terms of political governance, organisational and personal politics? What are the changes that we want to effect together? </p>
<p>If you are interested in finding out more, have a look at our <a href="https://oer17.oerconf.org/news/oer17-blog-posts-roundup/">list of resources and posts</a> shared by the community. </p>
<p>This free webinar, led by members of the OER17 organising committee, provides an overview of and reflection on the ideas presented at the conference.</p>
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<p style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 21.6px;">OER17 presents an opportunity for open practitioners, activists, educators and policy makers to come together as a community to reflect on <strong>The Politics of Open</strong>. What are our current key challenges and strengths – locally, nationally, and internationally? What are our priorities – in terms of political governance, organisational and personal politics? What are the changes that we want to effect together? The conference will be chaired by social and educational technologist and Wikimedia UK Trustee Josie Fraser, and Alek Tarkowski, Director of Centrum Cyfrowe, co-founder and coordinator of Creative Commons Poland.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 21.6px;">To find out more about this event visit <a href="https://oer17.oerconf.org/">https://oer17.oerconf.org/</a> where you can subscribe to updates or follow #oer17 </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 20.8px;">You can now view the programme for the conference at <a href="https://oer17.oerconf.org/programme/">https://oer17.oerconf.org/programm...
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<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3e68b53a-8514-da3b-f397-ab255ef896d5">This webinar is free to attend and open to all. The session will provide information about the course ‘Using technology with under-represented adults’, a free online course for adult educators across Europe, run by the Learning and Work Institute.</span></p>
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-3e68b53a-8514-da3b-f397-ab255ef896d5">The <a href="http://www.learningandwork.org.uk/" target="_blank">Learning and Work Institute</a> is a membership organisation with a diverse set of individual and corporate members including colleges, local authorities, third sector organisations, universities, businesses and iconic organisations in civil society. They strive for a fair society in which learning and work helps people realise their ambitions and potential throughout life.</span></p>
<p><b>***PLEASE NOTE*** Today's webinar has been postponed until April. </b>Please look out for further information at <a href="http://www.alt.ac.uk/events">www.alt.ac.uk/events</a></p>
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<p>The session will offer practical advice on how to submit proposal for ALT's Annual Conference 2017. So join us, whether you are a first time presenter or a seasoned participants from research or practice in any sector.</p>
<p>This webinar is free to attend and open to all.</p>
<p>This webinar will be run using Blackboard Collaborate. Please check your connection prior to the event and refer to our <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs">webinar FAQs</a> for further questions. </p>
<p>The link to access the webinar is: <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7565&password=M.FB6C1BAB63BD88...
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<p>Annual Conference 2017: Call for Proposals now open</p>
<p>The 24th ALT Annual Conference takes place from 5 to 7 September 2017 in Liverpool. The theme this year is ‘Beyond islands of innovation – how Learning Technology became the new norm(al)’. The Conference is chaired by Peter Alston and Professor Helen O’Sullivan, both at the University of Liverpool.</p>
<p>The Call for Proposals is now open: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://go.alt.ac.uk/altcall&am... href="http://go.alt.ac.uk/altcall" target="_blank">http://go.alt.ac.uk/altcall</a>. You can view it as a Google Doc or download a PDF.</p>
<p>Conference themes:<br />
- Empowerment in Learning Technology: supporting students through staff/student partnerships, students as influencers, developing skills and supporting staff at all levels;<br />
- Learning Spaces: impact of Learning Technology on the physical and the virtual, strategies for enabling innovation, effectively managing change;<br />
- Moving from the practical to the ‘publishable’: reporting from the forefront of innovation and research, policy and strategy fit (or not) for what’s ahead, sharing practice and scaling up Learning Technology through large scale institutional projects;<br />
- At the forefront of innovation: ethical implications of ‘data’ for learning and teaching, making use of data in assessment, the hype around AI, machine learning and learning analytics and what’s beyond;<br />
- Wildcard: you are free to contribute any aspect of your research, practice or policy work.</p>
<p>Key dates</p>
<p>Call for Proposals announced in early February 2017</p>
<p>Submission system opens in late February 2017</p>
<p>Webinars for potential authors: March 2017</p>
<p>Deadline for submissions is Midnight GMT, Monday 20 March 2017</p>
<p>Notification of acceptance: May 2017</p>
<p>Register to attend: May 2017</p>
<p>Webinar for accepted authors: August 2017</p>
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<p>Proposals for different session formats:</p>
<p>You can submit proposals for one of the following:</p>
<p>- Posters (displayed in print and online)</p>
<p>- 5 minutes: Lightning talk, usually a presentation</p>
<p>- 20 minutes: presentation with time for questions or a brief discussion</p>
<p>- 40 minutes: research presentation, technical demonstration or discussion, all with an interactive element for participants</p>
<p>- 1 hour: workshop or panel discussion, fully interactive format.</p>
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<p>Please see the full Call for further information and guidance on how to submit your proposal. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://go.alt.ac.uk/altcall&am... href="http://go.alt.ac.uk/altcall" target="_blank">http://go.alt.ac.uk/altcall</a></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/alt.ac.uk/files/FELTAGSIGautumnandwinterwebi... SIG webinar series 2017</a></p>
<h3 dir="ltr" style="color:#aaaaaa;font-style:italic;">New course design for Reflective learning</h3>
<p>Our second Webinar explores another of our Frontier themes for the FELTAG Movement: ‘New course design for Reflective learning’.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Webinar is presented by Daniel Scott, lately of Barnsley College and now working as an E-Learning Developer at 5M Publishing.</p>
<p dir="ltr">He will explore ideas and thinking around how e-learning design is now able to incorporate more reflection into courses as a means of learning, demonstrating achievements and characterising attributes. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Dan will lead a ‘walk and talk’ webinar, exploring ideas on how reflection can be utilised more in online course design, drawing on his own experience as an expert in e-learning both in a college setting and in the commercial world.</p>
<p dir="ltr">He will be looking in particular at two questions:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">How do we increase learner responsibility for what they learn and what they want to learn next?</p>
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<p>This webinar touches on another of our frontier themes, teaching the skills of self-employment, as we think about increasing the ability of all to self-manage learning and plot unique journeys through the learning each of us needs to support personal development.</p>
<p>For more information on the FELTAG SIG see <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/felt...
<p>A <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2017-02-22.0433.M.7295C273AB9FDC5... target="_blank">RECORDING</a> of the webinar is now available.</p>
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<p>This session is designed to provide information and support to CMALT holders interested in acting as CMALT assessors. Assessing CMALT portfolios helps you to</p>
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<li>Keep up to date with current practice</li>
<li>Continue your professional development and expand your skill-set as a peer assessor</li>
<li>Contribute to the development of the scheme</li>
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<p>The session will provide an overview of the assessment criteria, advice on how to complete an assessment and an opportunity to see how the assessment process works.</p>
<p>Presenter: Adam Warren, University of Southampton</p>
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<p>CMALT is the peer-based professional accreditation scheme developed by ALT to enable people whose work involves learning technology to</p>
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<li>have their experience and capabilities certified by peers;</li>
<li>demonstrate that they are taking a committed and serious approach to their professional development.</li>
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<p>CMALT is a flexible framework, accommodating a wide variety of job types and roles.</p>
<p>This webinar looks at the value and benefits of completing the CMALT process, and of demonstrating a solid and informed understanding of the benefits and constraints of learning technology, as an academic practitioner engaged in teaching and research.</p>
<p><strong>Presenters</strong></p>
<p>Florence Dujardin has held CMALT since 2014. Her research interests and her practice as academic developer at UEA are concerned with developing the digital literacies of students and lecturers.</p>
<p>Suzanne Martin has held CMALT since 2015. She teaches masters students using blended learning and is currently working with a learning technologist to develop a distance learning version of the masters programme she set up at Goldsmiths, University of London.</p>
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<p>This webinar is free to attend and open to all. This session will provide a preview of the Blended Learning Essentials Course starting on FutureLearn on 20 February 2017. </p>
<p>This webinar will be run using Blackboard Collaborate. Please check your connection prior to the event and refer to our <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs">webinar FAQs</a> for further questions. </p>
<p>The link to access the webinar is: <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7565&password=M.581E247F2F8D80...
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<p>Blended Learning Essentials 2017:</p>
<p>Incorporating digital learning into teaching is becoming ever more important in all areas of education. We are excited to announce that the well-received Blended Learning Essentials course for the Vocational Education and Training sector, commissioned by the <a href="http://www.ufi.co.uk/" target="_blank" title="Link to Ufi Trust website">Ufi Charitable Trust</a>, will be offered again this year. The course is designed to help those working in further education, skills training, vocational education, workplace learning, lifelong learning or adult education to understand the benefits of blended learning and how to make more effective use of technology to support learners.</p>
<p>What’s more, in addition to ‘Getting Started’ and ‘Embedding Practice’, two new courses have been added: ‘Developing Digital Skills’ and ‘Supporting Apprenticeships’. And, even better, the whole course is free!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ufi.co.uk/news/blended-learning-essentials" target="_blank" title="Link to Ufi Trust press release">Read more</a> about this year’s Blended Learning Essentials course.</p>
<p>The course will be delivered on Futurelearn, the UK’s leading platform for delivering open courses. The aim is to promote effective practice and pedagogy in blended learning.</p>
<p>The course will incorporate an accreditation route to <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/certified-membership" title="Link to CMALT page">CMALT</a>, ALT's peer-based accreditation scheme. Established in 2004, CMALT is one of the longest established accreditations specifically for practitioners seeking recognition for their skills and experience in the area of learning technology.</p>
<p>The course starts on 20 February 2017.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ufi.co.uk/news/blended-learning-essentials" target="_blank" title="Link to Ufi Trust press release">More information about the course and how to register.</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/certified-membership/blended-learning-essentials-a... title="Link to CMALT and BLE">More information about the course and CMALT accreditation.</a></p>
<p>Webinar <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2017-02-16.0436.M.902A6C8D1C0A43F... target="_blank">RECORDING</a> and <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/A_L_T/blended-learning-essentials-35000-partic... target="_blank">SLIDES</a> are now available.</p>
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<p><meta charset="utf-8" />To celebrate <a href="https://www.openeducationweek.org/">Open Education week</a> we are delighted to be joined from Egypt by Maha Bali. Maha is Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. International Director of <a href="http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/">Digital Pedagogy Lab</a>, Editor at the journal <a href="http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped">Hybrid Pedagogy</a>, editorial board member of Journal of Pedagogic Development and Learning, Media and Technology. She is a <a href="http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/author/mbali">Prof Hacker</a> blogger, <a href="http://dmlcentral.net/person/maha-bali/">DML Central</a> blogger, and co-founder of <a href="http://virtuallyconnecting.org/">virtuallyconnecting.org</a> and <a href="http://edcontexts.org/">edcontexts.org</a>. She considers herself an open and connected educator, learnaholic and writeaholic.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You can <a href="https://twitter.com/Bali_Maha">follow Bali_Maha on Twitter</a>.</p>
<p>Maha will be <a href="https://oer17.oerconf.org/news/announcing-our-first-keynote-speaker-for-... a keynote at OER17 in April</a> and her preparation for this has been happening through her blog, <a href="http://blog.mahabali.me/blog/">Reflecting allowed</a>. Her presentation will offer her personal perspectives on the this process giving us the opportunity to consider how open practice supports open education.</p>
<p>The webinar recording is available to view at <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2017-03-29.0331.M.54BA77B03B2AC4A... onclick="this.href='https://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttps%3A%2F%2Fsas.elluminate.com%2Fp.jnlp%3Fpsid%3D2017-03-29.0331.M.54BA77B03B2AC4AB89B04304F4EF3A.vcr%26sid%3D7565\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNGzIPDrpaRK70cTGjFw87plVli0aQ';return true;" onmousedown="this.href='https://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttps%3A%2F%2Fsas.elluminate.com%2Fp.jnlp%3Fpsid%3D2017-03-29.0331.M.54BA77B03B2AC4AB89B04304F4EF3A.vcr%26sid%3D7565\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNGzIPDrpaRK70cTGjFw87plVli0aQ';return true;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sas.elluminate.com/p.<wbr />jnlp?psid=2017-03-29.0331.M.<wbr />54BA77B03B2AC4AB89B04304F4EF3A<wbr />.vcr&sid=7565</a></p>
<p><meta charset="utf-8" /><b id="docs-internal-guid-d4bff4d6-dfec-9b44-8c7e-49f0f832acac"><a href="https://oer17.oerconf.org/#gref">OER17</a> </b>presents an opportunity for open practitioners, activists, educators and policy makers to come together as a community to reflect on The Politics of Open. What are our current key challenges and strengths – locally, nationally, and internationally? What are our priorities – in terms of political governance, organisational and personal politics? What are the changes that we want to effect together? The conference will be chaired by social and educational technologist and Wikimedia UK Trustee Josie Fraser, and Alek Tarkowski, Director of Centrum Cyfrowe, co-founder and coordinator of Creative Commons Poland.</p>
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Conference Co-Chair <a href="https://oer17.oerconf.org/news/meet-the-co-chairs-for-oer17-josie-fraser... Fraser</a> joins us today to provide a preview of the conference and share the ways in which all can participate and engage with the future of education.</p>
<p>A <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2017-03-09.0502.M.28EF90AE5D61F41... of the webinar is now available to watch.</p>
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