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Start Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 15:00:00 +0000

Description:

<p>As part of the <a href="http://octel.alt.ac.uk/">ocTEL course</a> we are running weekly webinars, starting on 30th April. Webinars are open to all and are free to attend. <strong>ocTEL participants will automatically receive joining instructions, so there is no need to register again. </strong>We will make the recordings of the sessions available via the ocTEL website. If you haven't yet registered for the course then you can still do so via the <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=101">ocTEL registration form</a>.</p>

<h2>This week's webinar</h2>

<p>You can access this week's session via <a href="http://https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7565&password=M.73006F6... link</a> (please note the session will not be live until one hour before the start time).</p>

<p>This week's webinar is about learning materials, Open Educational Resources, and the open movement in general, and aims to offer a range of opinions and perspectives on the following key questions:</p>

<ul>
<li>What do we mean by 'engaging and effective learning materials'?</li>
<li>How do we find them and how do we evaluate them?</li>
<li>If we cannot find 'ready-made' materials to suit our purpose, then how do we best create/assemble/stitch together materials to plug the gap(s)?</li>
<li>What are the pros and cons of using OERs and what do we need to know about them to use them effectively (e.g. licensing and copyright issues)?</li>
</ul>

<h2>About the presenter</h2>

<p><strong>Cable Green</strong> is Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons. Cable works with the global open education community to leverage open licensing, open educational resources, and open policies to significantly improve access to quality education and research resources so everyone in the world can attain the education they desire. Cable has 15 years of academic technology, online learning and open education experience in higher education and recently led a project to build and share a general education curriculum under the CC BY license. Cable holds a PhD in educational psychology from Ohio State University and tweets @cgreen</p>

Title: Open Educational Resources and the open movement - ocTEL webinar week 3

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_109_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 109

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=109

Start Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:30:00 +0000

Description:

<p>The webinar recording and slides from this session are available from the <a href="http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2351/">ALT Repository</a>.</p>

<h2>About the session</h2>

<p>As e-learning has become increasingly mainstream in universities a wider range of staff are now working alongside academics and learning technologists to support the online learning environment. Among these at UCL are our sizeable community of teaching administrators (TAs) and through the JISC Digital Department we sought to support these staff in developing their digital literacies and in working more systematically and strategically with them as change agents. This led directly to the establishment of a supported programme leading to the Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology (CMALT), now open to academic colleagues as well as TAs. As the professional confidence and institutional status of our TAs grew, last year UCL launched our E-Learning Champions initiative to enable departmental engagement, ownership and focus in the implementation of our e-learning strategy. We explicitly included TAs to work in partnership with academics and ELE staff. This has proved remarkably effective and has already helped the e-learning benchmark e-learning activity, develop local plans across two of our schools and has led to the emergence of active faculty-level e-learning groups.</p>

<h2>About the presenters</h2>

<p><strong>Clive Young</strong> leads the E-Learning Advisory team at UCL and has over 20 years’ experience as an e-learning consultant in UK universities and is also an Associate Lecturer at the Open University on their Masters in Open and Distance Education. Clive has initiated and participated in numerous UK and EU funded e-learning projects including Click and Go Video (JISC 2000), Click and Go Further (JISC 2002), VideoAktive (Minerva 2006), REC:all (Erasmus 2011) and The Digital Department (JISC 2011). He co-founded ViTAL, an ALT SIG with a focus in video in education which now has over 350 members.</p>

<p><strong>Stefanie Anyadi</strong> is the teaching and learning team manager in the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, and manages a team of teaching administrators. She is responsible for strategic planning of teaching and learning support, and also deals with the day-to-day administration of a number of undergraduate and taught graduate degrees. She has extensive contact with undergraduate and taught graduate students as well as academic staff from a wide range of backgrounds. With twenty years’ experience in teaching administration at different levels, Stefanie currently supports the development of teaching administrators across UCL by establishing and organising the annual Teaching Administrator Conference and the Teaching Administrator Forum on Moodle.</p>

Title: Staff development and learning technology - working with the new change agents - a free webinar

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_108_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 108

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=108

Start Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 11:30:00 +0000

Description:

<h2>This week's webinar</h2>

<p>You can access this week's session via <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7565&password=M.4A373F4F9517A8... link</a> (please note the session will not be live until one hour before the start time).</p>

<p>In formal higher education the desired shift in a new student-directed pedagogical paradigm is very often circumscribed by inappropriate learning design as well as by pre-established and pre-conceived power relationships between the teacher and the students, in the centre of which are often oppressive assessment techniques. In this seminar Dr Vlachopoulos will focus on how a more student-directed learning design can support and empower the creation of togetherness and belonging in a community of distance learners in formal higher education. He will present the findings of recently completed research that looked at the interactions in two different learning tasks as part of a postgraduate online distance learning programme.</p>

<h2>About the presenter</h2>

<p>Dr Panos Vlachopoulos studied Philosophy and Pedagogy at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece, followed by an M,Ed in E-learning from the University of Manchester and a PhD in Education (Online Pedagogy) from the University of Aberdeen. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education Development. He has international experience of online learning design  and research  in technology-enhanced learning from diverse educational contexts such as HEI in the UK, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Greece. He was the Director of the Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice in Higher Education at Aston University in the UK, where he also chaired Aston's Distance Learning Working Group and the Educational Research Ethics Committee. From 2009 to 2010 he was a full time lecturer in e-Learning at Massey University in New Zealand, a position in which he was appointed to in order to co-lead the development of Massey’s MEd in E-learning. Previously he held positions at Edinburgh Napier University and the University of Aberdeen as an Academic Development Adviser in Online Learning Design. He is currently leading three Macquarie Teaching Development Projects on Compressed Curriculum and Online Learning Design,  on Open Educational Resources for indigenous studies  and  on Professional Development of Academic Staff Capabilities for Learning Design using Moodle.</p>

Title: Learning design for student-directed learning: opportunities and challenges - ocTEL webinar week 2

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_107_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 107

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=107

Start Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:30:00 +0000

Description:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Open Scotland is a free one day event that provides an opportunity for ALT Scotland SIG members and the wider community to come together and share ideas and experiences of adopting and promoting open educational practices across all sectors of Scottish education.  The event will highlight examples of open education innovation across the Scottish education sector, including adoption of open badges and open assessment and accreditation practices; development of open educational resources and courses and open frameworks for technology enhanced learning.  In addition to showcasing homegrown initiatives, the event will also look further afield to inspiring and innovative projects and developments across the UK. This event will also explore some of the drivers and barriers to embedding open education policy and practice within Scottish education, and will provide an opportunity to discuss the draft Scottish Open Education Declaration prepared by </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://openscot.wordpress.com/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Open Scotland</a></span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">*.</span></span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The event has been made possible with support from <a href="https://alt.ac.uk">ALT</a>, <a href="http://www.sqa.org.uk/">SQA</a>, <a href="http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/scotland">Jisc RSC Scotland</a> and hosting from the <a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/">School of Informatics</a> at the University of Edinburgh.</span></span></p>

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<td>09:30-10:30</td>
<td>Registration (Tea/Coffee)</td>
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<td>10:30-10:45</td>
<td>Welcome from ALT Scotland SIG – Linda Creanor, Glasgow Caledonian University and Joe Wilson, SQA</td>
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<td>10:45-11:00</td>
<td>Update from ALT – Maren Deepwell, ALT</td>
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<td>11:00-11:30</td>
<td>Scottish Government perspectives – Colin Cook, Deputy Director of Digital Strategy, Scottish Government</td>
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<td>11:30:12:00</td>
<td>SFC Update – David Beards, Scottish Funding Council<br />
OU Scotland’s Open Education Project – Ronald McIntyre, OU Scotland</td>
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<td>12:00-12:30</td>
<td>Open Badges, Open Borders – Suzanne Scott, Borders College</td>
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<td>12:30-13:30</td>
<td>Lunch</td>
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<td>13:30-14:00</td>
<td>Open Courses – Jonathan Worth, Coventry University</td>
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<td>14:00-14:30</td>
<td>Exploring the digital university – Sheila MacNeill, Glasgow Caledonian University</td>
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<td>14:30-15:00</td>
<td>GLOW – Ian Stewart, John Johnston </td>
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<td>15:00-15:15</td>
<td>Coffee break</td>
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<td>15:15-15:30</td>
<td>Scottish Open Education Declaration – Lorna M. Campbell, Cetis</td>
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<td>15:30-16:00</td>
<td>Plenary discussion</td>
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Title: ALT Scotland SIG - Open Scotland

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_106_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 106

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=106

Start Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 11:30:00 +0000

Description:

<p>This free webinar is a chance to hear from current ALT Trustees about their experience of being part of the ALT Central Executive Committee. Doug Gowan and Shirley Evans will talk about why they became a Trustee, what the role involves and how you can become an ALT Trustee. The call for new Trustees has now been published via <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/news/all_news/call-nominations-new-vice-chair-and-... link</a> therefore this is a good opportunity to ask questions and learn more if you are thinking of applying.</p>

<h2><strong>About the presenters</strong></h2>

<p><span class="field-content"><strong>Doug Gowan</strong> was elected vice-chair of ALT in September 2013. He will serve a three year term, becoming chair of ALT in September 2014 and president in September 2015. Doug was born in a mining and mill town in the West Riding. Survived 11+ and Grammar School miseducation. Graduated from Edinburgh University in spite of 1968 and all that. Founded the TUC's Course Development Unit in the 1970s and helped create a new style of active, learner-centred learning. Developed new styles of campaigning in trade unions and in 1997 set up the Open Learning Partnership.</span></p>

<p><strong>Shirley Evans</strong> has worked in the field of education and inclusion for the last 14 years on a local, regional, national and international basis and as a student, practitioner, manager and policy shaper. This work has cut across HE, FE, ACL and schools and a range of national organisations such as The OU, Becta, Jisc, LSIS, and of course, ALT. Shirley is currently working at Jisc TechDis on a range of projects relating to accessibility and inclusion. She is also employed by the Open University as an Associate Lecturer as well as providing consultancy on accessibility of  STEM related modules. Her current research interest is designing e-learning for over 60s. Shirley joined the CMALT Development Group in March 2011 and is a CMALT Lead Assessor. She has been a trustee since January 2013 when she was appointed Chair of the Membership Development Committee.</p>

Title: Becoming an ALT Trustee - a free webinar

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_105_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 105

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=105

Start Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 11:30:00 +0000

Description:

<h2>This week's webinar</h2>

<p>You can access this week's session via <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7565&password=M.157991592AF408... link</a> (please note the session will not be live until one hour before the start time).</p>

<p>This week's webinar is about sharing approaches to and strategies for what we do and how we do it. We will have two short presentations, introducing examples of approaches to and strategies for Learning Technology. We will then facilitate a discussion with presenters and participants on how to share our approaches, identifying common issues. Following the webinar we invite you to join one of the small group discussion forums on strategies for Learning Technology.</p>

<h2>About the presenters</h2>

<p><strong>Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou </strong>is the Head of e-Learning at the University of Bath. In her role, she leads the enhancement of learning and teaching through the use of technology and her work aims to inform both institutional policy and practice. Kyriaki has presented at over 30 conferences in relation to e-learning, staff development, managing change, and the first year experience. She has numerous published works, is a steering member of the UK Heads of e-Learning Forum (HeLF) and has led on projects funded by the HEA, JISC, MillionPlus and the Leadership Foundation in Higher Education. Kyriaki’s more recent work focuses on the design and development to of FutureLearn MOOCs, whilst her work with the British Council and the Indian government explores the potential of large scale online delivery more generally. Her research focuses on educational leadership across the UK higher education sector with regard to e-learning.</p>

<p><strong>James Little</strong> has been involved at the intersection of education and technology for over 12 years, starting with a gap year in an educational consultancy in 2000 followed by work in subsequent years after University as a web designer, before moving into the higher education area in 2007 as a Learning Technologist.  James enjoys the creative combination of pedagogical, theoretical understanding and technical skills. He has been involved in running distance-learning Masters for 5 years as well as working to enable staff and student digital literacy. He has presented often at international conferences such as NET and at ALT-C. James joined Leeds SDDU in early 2013 and works both within SDDU to enable effective and appropriate use of technology as well across the University, Leading the Learning Technologists Network and working collaboratively as part of groups such as BLLTIG and eAssessment.</p>

Title: Strategies for Learning Technology - ocTEL webinar week 1

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_104_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 104

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=104

Start Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:00:00 +0000

Description:

<h2>This week's webinar</h2>

<p>You can access this week's session via <a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7565&password=M.978EBC82FF34D1... link</a> (please note the session will not be live until one hour before the start time).</p>

<p>This week's webinar is an introduction to ocTEL and gives you a chance to meet the tutors and previous years participants, and familiarise yourself with the ocTEL platform. This week’s webinar has two parts:</p>

<ul>
<li>a welcome to ocTEL, including a brief orientation and networking session</li>
<li>a panel session featuring questions and answers for ocTEL tutors and participants from last year’s course</li>
</ul>

<h2>About the presenters</h2>

<p><strong>Elizabeth Charles </strong>has worked in the higher education sector for more than 15 years.  She is currently the Head of E-Services and Systems at Birkbeck, University of London, as part of the Library and Media Services. This post allows her to further explore her interest in online learning and virtual learning environments. She manages the digital resources for students and staff. She developed the digitised readings service at Birkbeck a key resource for users of the VLE and managed the move from Blackboard to Moodle. She continues to be interested in the transition from face-to-face to virtual environment teaching and learning and has actively participated in a number of MOOC, the most recent being the Learning Design Challenge and ocTEL 2014. </p>

<p><strong>Martin Hawksey</strong> is Chief Innovation, Technology and Community Officer for ALT his work is focused on the development of ALT’s member services exploring how connectivist approaches can be used to support the community. This includes the application of data aggregation and dissemination techniques using existing open source platforms such as WordPress.</p>

<p><strong>David Jennings </strong>consults on online learning strategy and manages innovative projects. He has been self-employed for over 20 years and first managed and co-wrote accredited online courses in 1997. David is author of “Net, Blogs and Rock ‘n’ Roll: How digital discovery works and what it means for consumers, creators and culture” (2007). He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Certified Member of ALT. David is also managing a project to develop a mathematics MOOC (massive open online course) with Institute of Education, Calderdale College, CogBooks Ltd and OCR.</p>

<p><strong>James Kerr </strong>is a Graduate Research Associate at the Ohio State University. James is taking a sabbatical to complete his doctoral dissertation at Ohio State University in the US. He has over 20 years in higher education supporting technology, in IT and educational technology. His areas of interest include digital badges, instructional design, and higher & further education administration.</p>

Title: Welcome to ocTEL - ocTEL webinar week 0

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_103_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 103

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=103

Start Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 08:30:00 +0000

Description:

<p>This event is a <strong>free conference</strong> organised by the ALT MOOC Special Interest Group, with keynote from Diana Laurillard, Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies, Institute of Education.</p>

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

<ul>
<li>Growing your own Mooc – models for providers outside consortia.</li>
<li>Incorporating others’ Moocs within an existing course (‘wrapping’).</li>
<li>Widening and sustaining participation.</li>
<li>Designing and planning for ‘massive’.</li>
<li>Assessment and accreditation.</li>
</ul>

<p>A full programme is now available via <a href="http://altmoocsig.learningtechnologist.co.uk/2014/05/moocs-which-way-now... link</a>.</p>

Title: MOOCs - which way now?

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_102_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 102

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=102

Start Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:00:00 +0000

Description:

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-326fcbc3-fe27-e036-6736-358b5df372f2">The Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning (ocTEL) is back! Starting on the 28th April 2014 you will be able to participate in this online course designed to help you better understand ways to use Learning Technology for teaching, learning and assessment. The course has undergone a revision and now is shorter (six weeks plus induction week) and we are working on incorporating new features including Open Badges for accreditation.</span></p>

<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-326fcbc3-fe27-e036-6736-358b5df372f2">ocTEL doesn't follow a traditional format and whilst we'd love everyone to complete 'the course' you can drop-in for the material and events most useful to you (currently outline of weeks below). Ultimately our aim is to help you make connections between people and knowledge to aid your personal development. ocTEL is an ideal opportunity to consider the connection with your existing skills and experience and </span><a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/get-involved/certified-membership">Certified Membership of ALT (CMALT)</a>.</p>

<ul>
<li>Week 0: TEL & the future (induction) - 28 Apr 2014</li>
<li>Week 1: Concepts and approaches - 5 May 2014</li>
<li>Week 2: Learners and learning - 12 May 2014</li>
<li>Week 3: Materials, platforms and technologies - 19 May 2014</li>
<li>Week 4: Support, feedback and assessment - 2 Jun 2014</li>
<li>Week 5: Leadership, management and keeping on track - 9 Jun 2014</li>
<li>Week 6: Enhancement, review and evaluation - 16 Jun 2014</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Update: </strong>the course's main site is at <a href="http://octel.alt.ac.uk/2014/">http://octel.alt.ac.uk/2014/</a>. You can still register for the course to contribute to the site discussion (please note it can take up to 24 hours for use to email login details).</p>

Title: Enrol on ocTEL - Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_101_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 101

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=101

Start Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:30:00 +0000

Description:

<p><img alt="" src="https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/ima...(1).jpg" style="width: 267px; height: 189px; float: right;" />Now in its fifth year, OER14 is an international conference on open education, which will take place at Newcastle University, 28-29 April 2014. The conference is supported by ALT and the ALT Open Education Special Interest Group. This year the conference themes are:</p>

<ul>
<li>Building and linking communities of open practice</li>
<li>MOOCs and open courses</li>
<li>Academic practice, development and pedagogy</li>
<li>Open policy, research, scholarship and access</li>
<li>Students as users and co-creators</li>
</ul>

<p>For more information about the conference and to book please visit the <a href="http://oer14.org/">conference website</a>.</p>

Title: OER14

Event ID: CiviCRM_EventID_100_a485739cf401d1e8c18eaece375aefd0@www.alt.ac.uk

ID: 100

Text Link: https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=100

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