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Start Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:00:00 +0000
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<p>This is a joint event between the FELTAG SIG and the Open Education SIG as part of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/alt.ac.uk/files/FELTAGSIGautumnandwinterwebi... SIG webinar series 2017</a>,</p>

<p><strong>Presenters</strong></p>

<p>Peter Kilcoyne (Heart of Worcestershire College)</p>

<p>Alistair McNaught (Jisc)</p>

<p>Promises and lies - The role of open educational resources in inclusive practice.<br />
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The promise of open educational resources is attractive - a cornucopia of free resources, alternative explanations, different media, different levels; a true digital diversity in which the varying needs of different learners can be addressed.<br />
But how trustworthy are the promises? Alistair McNaught, explores five common &#39;digital deceptions&#39; that undermine digital diversity, deceptions that are easy to spot and easy to rectify if digital capability included more focus on basic good practices.<br />
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Such practices, sometimes referred to as Open Educational Practices need to be more clearly identified and signposted.&nbsp; For students, the need to turn their &#39;tech savvy&#39; knowledge into sound digital literacy is accepted as a discrete ability and as a part of the &#39;employability&#39; mind-set that is now fully explored and understood. For teachers, being able to use technology for purposeful pedagogy, articulating great teaching through technology, rather than simply using technology for its own sake requires a confidence and depth of understanding of both the affordances of the technology and the experiences it supports.</p>

<p>View a <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2017-06-15.0531.M.39572659483D2F3... of the webinar</p>

<p><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&amp;q=https://altc.alt.ac.uk/oesig/2... href="https://altc.alt.ac.uk/oesig/2017/06/05/promises-and-lies-the-role-of-op... rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://altc.alt.ac.uk/oesig/<wbr />2017/06/05/promises-and-lies-<wbr />the-role-of-open-educational-<wbr />resources-in-inclusive-<wbr />practice/</a></p>

<p>For more information on the FELTAG SIG see&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/felt...

<p>For more information on the Open Education SIG see&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/special-interest-and-members-groups/open...

Title: Promises and lies - The role of open educational resources in inclusive practice - A joint FELTAG and Open Education SIG webinar
Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_310_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk
ID: 310
Start Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 11:30:00 +0000
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<p>ALT&#39;s activities are led by three main operational committees, each of which is chaired by an ALT Trustee, and supported by a member of the ALT staff team.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Membership Development Committee has oversight of all ALT&#39;s member services for individual and organisational members.</p>

<p>You can find out more about the Committee&nbsp;and their members on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/who-we-are/operational-committees" title="Link to FE committee page">our committee pages</a>. You can read the&nbsp;minutes from previous meetings on&nbsp;the committee&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/how-we-are-governed/central-executive-co... page</a>.&nbsp;</p>

Title: Meeting of the Membership Development Committee
Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_308_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk
ID: 308
Start Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 08:00:00 +0000
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<p><strong>Late registration: If you still need to register, please complete this <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7LgMKjv_GFtaUlVOERGcTRXQVU/view?usp=sh... title="Link to download registration form">late registration form</a> and we will do our best to accommodate you.&nbsp;</strong></p>

<p>The conference provides an international platform for Learning Technology research, practice and policy work from across sectors.</p>

<p>The themes for the conference are:</p>

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<li>Empowerment in Learning Technology: supporting students through staff/student partnerships, students as influencers, developing skills and supporting staff at all levels;</li>
<li>Learning Spaces: impact of Learning Technology on the physical and the virtual, strategies for enabling innovation, effectively managing change;</li>
<li>Moving from the practical to the &lsquo;publishable&rsquo;: reporting from the forefront of innovation and research, policy and strategy fit (or not) for what&rsquo;s ahead, sharing practice and scaling up Learning Technology through large scale institutional projects;</li>
<li>At the forefront of innovation: ethical implications of &lsquo;data&rsquo; for learning and teaching, making use of data in assessment, the hype around AI, machine learning and learning analytics and what&rsquo;s beyond;</li>
<li>Wildcard: you are free to contribute any aspect of your research, practice or policy work.</li>
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<p>The conference will be chaired by&nbsp;<meta charset="utf-8" />by Peter Alston, Lecturer in Learning Technology in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool and Helen O&rsquo;Sullivan, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Online Learning at University of Liverpool.</p>

<p>For more information about the conference visit&nbsp;<a href="https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2017/" title="Link to conference site">https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2017/</a></p>

Title: ALT Annual Conference 2017
Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_307_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk
ID: 307
Start Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:00:00 +0000
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<p style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">ALT&#39;s main publication, </span><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/zrlt20/current" target="_blank">Research in Learning Technology</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"> is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted to research and good practice in the use of learning technologies. </span></p>

<p style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">See the full </span><a href="http://researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/about/editorialTeam" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" title="Link to the Editorial Board">Editorial Board</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">.</span></p>

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Title: Meeting of the RLT Editorial Board
Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_305_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk
ID: 305
Start Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:00:00 +0000
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<p style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">ALT&#39;s main publication, </span><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/zrlt20/current" target="_blank">Research in Learning Technology</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"> is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted to research and good practice in the use of learning technologies. </span></p>

<p style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">See the full </span><a href="http://researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/about/editorialTeam" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" title="Link to the Editorial Board">Editorial Board</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">.</span></p>

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Title: Meeting of the RLT Editorial Board
Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_304_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk
ID: 304
Start Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 09:00:00 +0000
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 20.8px;">ALT&#39;s activities are led by three main operational committees, each of which is chaired by an ALT Trustee, and supported by a member of the ALT staff team. </p>

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The Further Education and cross-sector engagement Committee works t</span>o help ALT strengthen and extend its services across the different learning and training contexts, including FE colleges, adult and community learning providers, specialist colleges, LEAs, voluntary sector providers, schools and work-based training providers, within a framework provided by: the ALT Constitution and Strategy; policies decided from time to time by the Central Executive Committee; and the ALT budget. </p>

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 20.8px;">You can find out more about the Committee and their members on <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/who-we-are/operational-committees" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(7, 153, 72) !important; font-weight: 600;" title="Link to FE 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... style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(7, 153, 72) !important; font-weight: 600;">minutes page</a>. </p>

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Title: Meeting of the Further Education and cross-sector engagement Committee
Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_303_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk
ID: 303
Start Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:00:00 +0000
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<p>The <a href="http://www.hepi.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Hepi_Rebooting-learning... target="_blank">Jisc HEPI paper</a> gave several recommendations, including &lsquo;The UK HE should develop an evidence and knowledge base on what works in TEL to help universities, faculties and course&nbsp;teams make informed decisions, plus mechanisms to share and discuss practice&rsquo;.&nbsp; Yet a recent ALT Jiscmail discussion highlighted several of these reasons for why this&nbsp;recommendation presents a wicked challenge:</p>

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<li>Traditional research model is too slow, so more variables</li>
<li>Commercially sensitive and not for publication</li>
<li>TEL pilots often small samples and don&rsquo;t scale to enterprise</li>
<li>Evidence can&rsquo;t be &nbsp;&lsquo;transferred&rsquo; into different contexts /students</li>
<li>Focussed more on particular technologies than the learning</li>
<li>Pedagogical (&amp; thus TEL/Education Technology) research being undervalued by the REF</li>
<li>Practitioners don&rsquo;t always mean what they say when they ask for evidence</li>
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<p>Join our webinar to discuss further why staff are asking for a TEL evidence base, what the barriers are and how this could be developed. The webinar will be led by ALT Trustee James Clay. It is free to attend and open to all.&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Session Recording</strong></p>

<p>A&nbsp;recording of the session can be accessed from&nbsp;<a href="http://go.alt.ac.uk/2q9NsZj">http://go.alt.ac.uk/2q9NsZj</a></p>

Title: ALT webinar: Show me the evidence
Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_302_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk
ID: 302
Start Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:30:00 +0000
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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>

Title: OER 17 follow-up - The Politics of Open
Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_301_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk
ID: 301
Start Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 08:30:00 +0000
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<div style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 5px 10px; text-align: center;"><strong>*** Registration is now closed ***</strong><br />
For any urgent matters please email <a href="mailto:helpdesk@alt.ac.uk">helpdesk@alt.ac.uk</a>.</div>

<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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Title: #OER17: The Politics of Open
Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_299_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk
ID: 299
Start Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:30:00 +0000
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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&#39;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>

Title: FELTAG SIG webinar: Using technology with under-represented adults
Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_298_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk
ID: 298

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