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<p>The need to comply with GDPR is only just around the corner. Moodle has engaged with the extended community and with specialist legal counsel to find the best way to help enable institutions meet their obligations under the legislation. This webinar will show how Moodle using organisations can implement plugins and configurations to help them respond to the requirements. </p>
<p><strong>Presenters</strong></p>
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<li>Martin Dougiamas - Moodle Founder & CEO</li>
<li>Gavin Henrick - Moodle Business Development Manager</li>
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<p>This session provides a preview of Blended Learning Essentials: Developing Digital Skills, a two-week course starting on FutureLearn on 16 April 2018. </p>
<p>The course, commissioned and funded by the <a href="http://www.ufi.co.uk/" target="_blank" title="Link to Ufi Trust website">Ufi Charitable Trust</a>, is designed specifically for the Vocational Education and Training sector seeks to address the digital skills shortage reported by employers by giving teachers and trainers the knowledge and the confidence to teach the necessary skills, enabling students to bring much-needed digital skills to the workplace. It also enables teachers to train their learners to manage their digital footprint.</p>
<p>The course includes examples of tools and apps that can help teachers to develop digital creation skills in their learners. It covers a wide range of vocational education settings, and all kinds of learners, with a variety of expectations and needs. It is based on the needs of employers and on the real experience of how digital skills are being used at work.</p>
<p>As the course takes places entirely online, it is flexible and can be completed at the participant’s own pace. It will be delivered on Futurelearn, the UK’s leading platform for delivering open courses. The course starts on 16 April and is free of charge.</p>
<p>This webinar gives a preview of the course content and how to take part. It will run in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, and can be accessed from the following link on the day:</p>
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<p>Find out more and join the course: <a href="https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/blended-learning-digital-skills" target="_blank" title="Link to BLE3 website">https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/blended-learning-digital-skills</a>....
<p>Blended Learning Essentials is a free online course developed by the University of Leeds and UCL Institute of Education, supported by the Association for Learning Technology and funded by the Ufi Trust.</p>
<p>You can contact Blended Learning Essentials by emailing <a href="mailto:ble@alt.ac.uk" title="Link to ble@alt.ac.uk email">ble@alt.ac.uk</a>, follow it on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/BLECourse" target="_blank" title="Link to BLECourse on Twitter">@BLECourse</a>and <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FLble3" target="_blank" title="Link to #FLble3 on Twitter">#FLble3</a>. </p>
<p>The Research in Learning Technology Editorial Board meets several times a year and is chaired by Prof Neil Morris. </p>
<p><em>Research in Learning Technology (RLT)</em> is a peer reviewed, Open Access journal published by the Association for Learning Technology.</p>
<p><em>RLT</em> aims to raise the profile of research in learning technology, encouraging research that informs good practice and contributes to the development of policy.</p>
<p>You can find out more about the Board and its members on the <a href="https://journal.alt.ac.uk/index.php/rlt/about/editorialTeam" title="Link to Editorial Board">journal website</a>. </p>
<p>The Board of Trustees of ALT is the Association's overall governing body and meets three times a year face to face and monthly online. </p>
<p>You can find out more about the Trustees on <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/how-we-are-governed/central-executive-co... title="Link to committee page">our governance pages</a>. You can read the minutes from previous meetings on the committee <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/how-we-are-governed/central-executive-co... title="Link to committee minutes">minutes page</a>. </p>
<p>This is the first meeting of the newly-constituted ALT North East Members Group. </p>
<p>Visit <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/alt-... find out more and to join the group.</p>
<p><a href="https://oer18.oerconf.org/">OER18</a> turns the focus on one of the often-cited benefits of 'open' – the promise of inclusivity. How do the resources, methods and projects that make up open education support making education available to all? As a movement over 15 years old, has open education made an impact – on learners, on society and on education? What can we do to to support learning in the open – and how can we use open to support learning? The conference will be chaired by academic and open education researcher Vivien Rolfe, alongside policy wonk and project manager David Kernohan.</p>
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Conference Keynote <a href="https://oer18.oerconf.org/keynote-speakers/">Lorna Campbell</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>You can access the webinar recording at <a href="http://go.alt.ac.uk/2FnHK18">http://go.alt.ac.uk/2FnHK18</a></p>
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<p>This session provides an overview of the Blended Learning Essentials courses and of accreditation pathways available to participants.</p>
<p>Blended Learning Essentials: Embedding Practice is running now. Sign up at <a href="https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/blended-learning-embedding-practice"...
<p>Blended Learning Essentials is a free CPD course running on the FuturLearn platform. Embedding Practice shows how to embed blended learning practices in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. Participants explore how new technology can assist learning from experience, how it helps overcome challenges in the sector, and will develop your own skills and discover the optimal uses of blended learning. </p>
<p>Booking is now open for the rescheduled ALT West Midlands regional group meeting at the University of Birmingham on Wednesday 28 February.</p>
<p>From MOOCs, to the flipped classroom, to hybrid and micro learning, blended learning in all of its diverse forms plays a significant part in the life of most educators and those who support them. It challenges us to examine and evaluate our pedagogy and our learning spaces and even our professional identity as it can impact at every level of our practice.</p>
<p>So, join us for an opportunity to learn more from colleagues at other regional Universities and Colleges, and share your own experiences too. A full agenda will be released later in the month, but we already have 2 fantastic sessions scheduled which will be presented by colleagues from Aston University: Erupt – a tour of a collaborative online learning space - and Genius Hour – an overview of an embedded, accredited module which develops learners' skills and knowledge within an independent, self-guided project.</p>
<p>Registration is free, but places are limited.</p>
<p>Register at <a href="http://go.alt.ac.uk/2FTZxsA">http://go.alt.ac.uk/2FTZxsA</a></p>
<p><strong>Presenter</strong>: Tharindu Liyanagunawardena (PhD, FHEA, CMALT), Chair of the Online Learning Research Centre, UCEM.</p>
<p><strong>Webinar synopsis</strong>:</p>
<p>In this webinar, I will share my experience of the process of implementing accessibility practices at University College of Estate Management (UCEM) and how this experience led to the forthcoming book chapter “Open to Inclusion: exploring openness for differently-abled”.</p>
<p>As a supported online learning provider, UCEM course materials are provided using a range of technologies such as podcasts, videos, interactive e-learning content, audio PowerPoints, e-books and webinars. However, unless the content is designed with accessibility in mind, non-textual materials may not be readily accessible by students with disabilities. There is also the financial cost of additional time and resources required to make reasonable accommodations if accessibility of materials was not considered from the start.</p>
<p>In the book chapter, “Open to Inclusion: exploring openness for differently-abled”, the accessibility of various open content, such as Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), is considered. The chapter introduces Khalid, Sophie, Chamari and Arun, fictitious personas with various disabilities, who are keen to access ‘open’ content to learn and develop themselves. The readers are invited to explore with them the obstacles they have to overcome when accessing these ‘open’ content and whether the difficulties they encounter may differ had they happened to live elsewhere in the world. The chapter presents the case for inclusion and accessibility, and highlights the importance of raising awareness.</p>
<p><strong>Related work</strong>:</p>
<p>Liyanagunawardena, T.R., Adams, A.A., & Williams, S.A. (2018). Open to Inclusion: exploring openness for differently-abled, In Ecologies of open: Inclusion, intersections, and interstices in education (forthcoming).</p>
<p>Liyanagunawardena T.R., & Hussain, A. (2017). Online Distance Education Materials and Accessibility: Case Study of University College of Estate Management. In Vincenti G., Bucciero A., Helfert M., & Glowatz M. (eds) E-Learning, E-Education, and Online Training. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 180. Springer, Cham.</p>
<p>Nadan, T., Forster, S. & Liyanagunawardena, T.R. (2017). Captioning Videos for Accessibility: A Case Study of University College of Estate Management, Presented at Association for Learning Technology ALT Annual Conference 2017, 5–7 September 2017, Liverpool, UK.</p>
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