<p>A recording of the webinar is now available on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMVUtXVTyjA&amp;feature=c4-overview&amp;l... YouTube Channel</a>.</p>

<p>Slides from the webinar are available from the <a href="http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2327/">ALT Repository</a>.</p>

<p>The &ldquo;Research in Learning Technology&rdquo; journal recently published a supplement on &quot;The art and science of learning design&quot;. This landmark publication includes eight papers and an editorial, and provides a deep and broad overview of some of the current debates in the field, along with vivid insights into several emerging tools and representations. Several of the supplement&rsquo;s authors will convene for a webinar, in which they will highlight key points in their papers, discuss issues emerging from this publication and answer audience questions and comments.</p>

<p><strong>Presenters</strong><br />
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<strong>Yishay Mor</strong>, Independent Consultant: learning; design; technology; research. Previously: Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology at the Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University UK. Teaching fellow at the Technologies in Education Graduate Programme, the Faculty of Education, University of Haifa. Senior research fellow, the London Knowledge Lab. Senior software engineer, Cisco systems. Owner, J Shop. Senior software engineer, AgentSoft.<br />
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<strong>Val&eacute;rie Emin-Martinez</strong>, PhD in Computer Sciences at University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble 1), is a researcher at the Institut Fran&ccedil;ais de l&rsquo;&Eacute;ducation in Ecole Normale Sup&eacute;rieure de Lyon, EducTice-S2HEP Laboratory. She coordinates since 2008 a research project on pedagogical scenario design in science and technique discipline. Her current research topics are &quot;Pedagogical scenarios design&quot;, &quot;Game based learning&quot; and &quot;Design and uses of Serious Games&quot; in real classrooms. She&rsquo;s an associate member of GALA european network of excellence for Serious Games (http://www.galanoe.eu/).<br />
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<strong>Helen Walmsley</strong> is the e-Learning Models Coordinator at Staffordshire University, UK. She provides support for academic staff developing blended and distance learning using the Best Practice Models. Current research topics are learning design, distance learning and using a community of practice to support professional development in e-learning.<br />
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<strong>Michael Derntl</strong> is a Senior Research Associate at the Information Systems and Databases chair, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He holds a PhD in information systems from the University of Vienna, Austria. He is currently researching in the FP7 network of excellence GALA in the area of serious games, in the FP7 integrated project Learning Layers on software architectures and infrastructures for informal workplace learning, as well as in the Lifelong Learning Project METIS on integrated learning design environments. In the last decade he has published numerous articles in journals, books and conference proceedings.<br />
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<strong>Liz Masterman</strong> has a PhD in Educational Technology from the University of Birmingham, and has an interest in sociocultural approaches to the design and evaluation of technology-enhanced teaching and learning. She is currently a senior researcher with the Academic IT Services (Learning &amp; Teaching) Group in Oxford University IT Services. Her main fields of research in recent years have been learning design, the student digital experience and into open academic practices in UK universities.<br />
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<strong>Luis P. Prieto</strong>, PhD in Information and Communication Technologies, is a post-doctoral researcher at the GSIC-EMIC group in the University of Valladolid (Spain), and has previously worked as research and development engineer in the telecom industry. His main research interests include learning design, the orchestration of TEL and CSCL activities by teachers, the use of professional development to support technological change, or the application of augmented reality, paper and tangible interfaces to education. Many of these research threads come into play in the EU Lifelong Learning Programme project he currently spends most time on: Metis (&ldquo;Meeting teachers&#39; co-design needs by means of Integrated Learning Environments&rdquo;).</p>

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<p>The webinar will start at 1230 UK time, and will finish no later than 1330.</p>
<p>The session is designed to provide information and support to candidates looking to complete their portfolios in the next few months.</p>
<p>It will provide an overview of the submission process, advice on how to complete a portfolio and an opportunity to see how the assessment process works.</p>
<p>There will also be time for individual questions at the end of the session.</p>
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<p>ALT Policy Board meetings are fora for member institutions to discuss the effect of strategic changes in learning technology options on institutional strategies and on education as a whole.&nbsp; The meetings are chaired by the ALT President&nbsp; with a small number of presentations from those with appropriate expertise and experience in the relevant area while leaving plenty of time for discussion of the issues in groups and plenary. They are convened when new significant matters arise in the LT educational policy arena.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br />This year, the Policy Board will be discussing how UK education providers can continue to provide UK leadership in global education with changing models, especially in Learning Technology. We will be drawing on a policy roundtable discussion convened earlier this year, which sought input from institutions, government and universities about key issues in the light of recent developments, such as MOOCs.</p>

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<p>Materials from this webinar are now available from the <a href="http://repository.alt.ac.uk/view/divisions/Scholarly,Digital,Open=3Aanim... Repository</a>.</p>
<p>Traditionally, university faculties have exercised economic and organisational autonomy over the activities of scholarship, believing themselves to be the guardians of a social consensus on the value and role of scholarship as a 'public good'. But, in the contemporary context of national education policies that construct the public good of the university in terms of economic value - of its research, and of the skills, qualifications and career opportunities offered to students and future employers - a new discourse of 'open-ness' is threatening the traditional scholarly values of critical reflection, methodological rigour, and the expert search for truth.</p>
<p>Digital communication and the internet bring competing sets of values, including immediacy, serendipity, the mutability of knowledge, and the participation of crowds. How can the traditions of scholarship, the principle of open-ness, and the new cultures of digitality be combined? Is such a triangle even possible?</p>
<p>In this session Robin Goodfellow will take a critical look at some contexts of practice in which scholarship, digitality, and openness interact, and explore the inherent tension between practices that aim to deepen the understanding of specialist communities, and those that aim to open up the social construction of scholarship to universal participation. He will discuss implications for the relationship between scholarship and teaching in the digital university, and look at some recent work on literacy and knowledge practices in digital higher education which points to a way out of the apparent contradictions.</p>
<p><strong>About the presenter</strong></p>
<p>Robin Goodfellow is Senior Lecturer in Teaching with New Technologies at the Open University's Institute of Educational Technology. He was principle investigator for the ESRC-funded seminar series Literacy in the Digital University between 2009 and 2011 and is a contributing co-editor of 'Literacy in the Digital University - Critical Perspectives on Learning, Scholarship and Technology' (Routledge 2013). He is also co-author of Challenging E-Learning in the University - a literacies perspective (McGraw Hill/Open University Press 2007).</p>
<p><strong>About the series</strong></p>
<p>This seminar series is funded by the JISC IOE Digital Literacy project, and will be hosted by ALT. It will explore the themes of the forthcoming special issue of Research in Learning Technology, which will focus on Digital Literacies and Digital Scholarship. The authors of four of the papers in the special issue will present on their research and theoretical perspectives surrounding these themes.&nbsp; The series will be curated by Lesley Gourlay (joint editor of RLT) and Special Issue guest editors Martin Oliver and Norm Friesen. Sessions will involve presentation, exploration of themes by the facilitators and open discussion with participants.</p>
<p>The webinar will be run using Blackboard Collaborate 11. We will notify you of arrangements approximately three days prior to the webinar, giving you time to get your PC or Mac set up and tested, taking account of the guidance on the ALT web site at <a href="http://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs">http://www.alt.ac.uk/events/we...
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