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<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>

<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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<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>

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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>

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<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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