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Start Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 08:00:00 +0000

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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.

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

The themes for the conference are:

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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 ‘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;</li>
<li>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;</li>
<li>Wildcard: you are free to contribute any aspect of your research, practice or policy work.</li>
</ul>

The conference will be chaired by <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’Sullivan, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Online Learning at University of Liverpool.

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

Title: ALT Annual Conference 2017

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_307_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 307

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=307

Start Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:00:00 +0000

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ALT's main publication, <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/zrlt20/current" target="_blank">Research in Learning Technology</a> is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted to research and good practice in the use of learning technologies.

See the full <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>.

Title: Meeting of the RLT Editorial Board

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_305_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 305

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=305

Start Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:00:00 +0000

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Title: Meeting of the RLT Editorial Board

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_304_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 304

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=304

Start Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 09:00:00 +0000

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ALT'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.

The Further Education and cross-sector engagement Committee works to 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.

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>.

Title: Meeting of the Further Education and cross-sector engagement Committee

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_303_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 303

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=303

Start Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:00:00 +0000

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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 ‘The UK HE should develop an evidence and knowledge base on what works in TEL to help universities, faculties and course teams make informed decisions, plus mechanisms to share and discuss practice’.  Yet a recent ALT Jiscmail discussion highlighted several of these reasons for why this recommendation presents a wicked challenge:

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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’t scale to enterprise</li>
<li>Evidence can’t be  ‘transferred’ into different contexts /students</li>
<li>Focussed more on particular technologies than the learning</li>
<li>Pedagogical (& thus TEL/Education Technology) research being undervalued by the REF</li>
<li>Practitioners don’t always mean what they say when they ask for evidence</li>
</ul>

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.

Session Recording

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

Title: ALT webinar: Show me the evidence

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_302_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 302

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=302

Start Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:30:00 +0000

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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.

This free webinar, led by members of the OER17 organising committee, provides an overview of and reflection on the ideas presented at the conference.

Title: OER 17 follow-up - The Politics of Open

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_301_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 301

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?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;">*** Registration is now closed *** 
For any urgent matters please email <a href="mailto:helpdesk@alt.ac.uk">helpdesk@alt.ac.uk</a>.</div>

OER17 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.

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

You can now view the programme for the conference at <a href="https://oer17.oerconf.org/programme/">https://oer17.oerconf.org/programm...

Title: #OER17: The Politics of Open

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_299_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 299

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=299

Start Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:30:00 +0000

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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.

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.

***PLEASE NOTE*** Today's webinar has been postponed until April. Please look out for further information at <a href="http://www.alt.ac.uk/events">www.alt.ac.uk/events</a>

Title: FELTAG SIG webinar: Using technology with under-represented adults

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_298_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 298

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=298

Start Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:00:00 +0000

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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.

This webinar is free to attend and open to all.

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.

The link to access the webinar is: <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7565&password=M.FB6C1BAB63BD88...

Annual Conference 2017: Call for Proposals now open

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.

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.

Conference themes: 
- Empowerment in Learning Technology: supporting students through staff/student partnerships, students as influencers, developing skills and supporting staff at all levels; 
- Learning Spaces: impact of Learning Technology on the physical and the virtual, strategies for enabling innovation, effectively managing change; 
- 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; 
- 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; 
- Wildcard: you are free to contribute any aspect of your research, practice or policy work.

Key dates

Call for Proposals announced in early February 2017

Submission system opens in late February 2017

Webinars for potential authors: March 2017

Deadline for submissions is Midnight GMT, Monday 20 March 2017

Notification of acceptance: May 2017

Register to attend: May 2017

Webinar for accepted authors: August 2017

Proposals for different session formats:

You can submit proposals for one of the following:

- Posters (displayed in print and online)

- 5 minutes: Lightning talk, usually a presentation

- 20 minutes: presentation with time for questions or a brief discussion

- 40 minutes: research presentation, technical demonstration or discussion, all with an interactive element for participants

- 1 hour: workshop or panel discussion, fully interactive format.

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>

Title: Webinar - How to submit a proposal for the 2017 ALT Annual Conference

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_297_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 297

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=297

Start Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:30:00 +0000

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<h3 dir="ltr" style="color:#aaaaaa;font-style:italic;">New course design for Reflective learning</h3>

Our second Webinar explores another of our Frontier themes for the FELTAG Movement: ‘New course design for Reflective learning’.

The Webinar is presented by Daniel Scott, lately of Barnsley College and now working as an E-Learning Developer at 5M Publishing.

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.

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.

He will be looking in particular at two questions:

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<li dir="ltr">
How do we increase learner responsibility for what they learn and what they want to learn next?
</li>
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How might we design e-learning to enable this to happen?
</li>
</ol>

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.

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

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.

Title: FELTAG SIG webinar: New course design for reflective learning

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_296_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 296

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=296

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