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<p>Now in its fourth year, the ALT Online Winter Conference is back to showcase some of the best Learning Technology from ALT Members from across sectors.</p>
<p>The conference will take place online from 12 to 13 December, giving ALT Members an opportunity to highlight the work they and their community have been involved with and to gain feedback from peers. </p>
<p>The format of the event is designed to be multimodal, combining both asynchronous and synchronous communication, and to cross boundaries, sharing the work and expertise across ALT SIGs and Members Groups and the community.</p>
<p>You can also help us keep this event open by making <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/... href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=25" target="_blank">a financial contribution</a> to support the event, from £5 up to £500.</p>
<p>View the <a href="https://altc.alt.ac.uk/online2017/" target="_blank" title="Link to Winter Conference website">Winter Conference website</a>.</p>
<p>This is the only joint face to face meeting each year of ALT's Operational Committees. </p>
<p>You can find out more about the Committee and their members on <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/how-we-are-governed/central-executive-co... title="Link to committee page">our committee 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>The Central Executive Committee consists of the Trustees of the Association and is the overall governing body. This Committee meets three times a year face to face and monthly online. </p>
<p>You can find out more about the Committee and their members on <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/how-we-are-governed/central-executive-co... title="Link to committee page">our committee 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>The Central Executive Committee consists of the Trustees of the Association and is the overall governing body. This Committee meets three times a year face to face and monthly online. </p>
<p>You can find out more about the Committee and their members on <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/how-we-are-governed/central-executive-co... title="Link to committee page">our committee 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>
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<p><strong>A <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2017-10-13.0350.M.38B66CC38AF2FB7... target="_blank" title="Link to webinar recording">RECORDING</a> of the webinar is now available. You can also view the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzm-xaCmrtg6ZVF6SzhvejZzVXc/view?usp=sh... target="_blank" title="Link to MP4 file of webinar recording">MP4 file</a>.</strong></p>
<p>This webinar is free to attend and open to all. This session will provide a preview of the Blended Learning Essentials: Getting Started course, running on FutureLearn in November 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 guidance.</p>
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<p>Blended Learning Essentials 2017:</p>
<p>With the incorporation of digital learning into teaching becoming ever more important in all areas of education, 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>, is being 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><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><a href="https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/blended-learning-getting-started">More information about the course and how to register</a>.</p>
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<p>A <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2017-09-13.0436.M.428FEC1D440885C... title="Link to Blackboard Collaborate Recording">RECORDING</a> of the webinar is now available to view.</p>
<p>This session provides a preview of the Blended Learning Essentials Course starting on FutureLearn on 2 October 2017. </p>
<p>Blended Learning Essentials 2017:</p>
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<p>Building on the highly successful Blended Learning Essentials series of MOOCs, the third course, entitled ‘Developing Digital Skills,’ has just been launched and will start in October. This 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.</p>
<p>The course 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 2 October and is free of charge.</p>
<p>What participants said about the previous two Blended Learning Essentials courses:</p>
<p>‘We shouldn’t be reinventing the wheel all over the country… for me it was really quite a revelation.’</p>
<p>‘A source of nuisance before, they could now use the mobile phones in a constructive way.’</p>
<p>‘Seeing what's going on in the classroom and listening to the practitioner giving you really practical points.’</p>
<p>More information: <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>
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<p>If you are unable to get to Liverpool from Ireland, <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/alt-... title="Link to ALT Northern Ireland Members Group">ALT Northern Ireland Members Group</a> have organised a <strong>free virtual get together</strong> for the 5 and the 6 September. We will be meeting at 9.00am each day to register, make introductions and get some ideas of what people would like to gain from the day. Then we will link in with the conference live stream from Mountford Hall.</p>
<p>The venue will be Queen's University, Belfast on Tuesday, 5 Septermber, and University of Ulster (City Centre Campus) on Wednesday, 6 September.</p>
<p>For more information and to book: <a href="http://www.altni.com/join-us-to-virtually-attend-alt-c-2017/" target="_blank" title="Link to Northern Ireland group events page">http://www.altni.com/join-us-to-virtually-attend-alt-c-2017/</a>.</p>
<p>The summer meeting of the <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/east... title="Link to EMLT group page">East Midlands Learning Technologists group</a> has the theme 'Learning Analytics: Using data to improve the learner experience'. </p>
<p>The data we collect from learners can be really powerful in helping us to shape and improve learning and educational institutions and organisations are pushing to use learner data more effectively. But, how can we use this data most effectively? How much can this really tell us about the learner experience? What are its limitations? What are the ethical implications of collecting and using this data? How should the introduction of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation" target="_blank" title="Link to GDPR on Wikimedia">GDPR</a> on 25 May 2018 influence how we store and manage this data?</p>
<p>During the event we hope to explore these questions and more, discussing how learner data, big and small, can be used to help us improve learning and teaching. Whether it is data from a single activity which helps us to focus teaching resources and respond to the student voice or on a larger scale, where data across platforms comes together to aid retention and achievement, data becomes a valuable asset for both the tutor and learner.</p>
<p>More information and a booking form: <a href="https://altc.alt.ac.uk/emlt/2017/07/17/emlt-meeting-summer-2017/" title="Link to EMLT summer meeting blog post">https://altc.alt.ac.uk/emlt/2017/07/17/emlt-meeting-summer-2017/</a></p>
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<h3><strong>9th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy</strong></h3>
<p>OER18 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>
<p>To find out more about this event, <a href="https://oer18.oerconf.org/" target="_blank" title="Link to OER18 website">visit https://oer18.oerconf.org/</a>, where you can subscribe to updates, or follow <a href="https://twitter.com/OERConf?lang=en-gb" target="_blank" title="Link to OER Twitter account">@OERConf</a> and look for #oer18.</p>
<p>This webinar, run by the <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/open... target="_blank" title="Link to Open Education SIG page">Open Education Special Interest Group</a>, will take the form of a set of activities with the aim of surfacing shared values across the 'open' communities.</p>
<p>You can find more information here: <a href="https://altc.alt.ac.uk/oesig/2017/07/10/open-what-do-we-value/" target="_blank" title="Link to blog post">https://altc.alt.ac.uk/oesig/2017/07/10/open-what-do-we-value/</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-61256962-182f-7fac-07c7-4ddc79e4f42f">The webinar is free to attend and open to all. It will run in Blackboard Collaborate. 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, and that you have the (small) Blackboard Collaborate client successfully installed. Do this from the support page at </span><a href="http://www.elluminate.com/support/">http://www.elluminate.com/support/</a>, and refer to the guidance at <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs">https://www.alt.ac.uk/events/...
<p dir="ltr">View a <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=20... target="_blank" title="Link to webinar recording">RECORDING</a> of this webinar.</p>