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<p><img alt="" src="https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/ima... style="float: right; width: 256px; height: 214px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" />ALT will be exhibiting at the Jisc Digital Festival on 11th and 12th March.</p>
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<p>Please come and visit us on stand 49 to find out more about our work, or say hello if you are a current member.</p>
<p>On the stand will be ALT's Events Manager, Caroline Greves, and ALT's Membership Services Manager, Liz Wyatt. We look forward to seeing you there!</p>
<p>Resources from this session including slides and a recording will be made available via: <a href="http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org/wp/consultation-online/">http://di...
<p>This webinar will report on findings from a Jisc study into students expectations and experiences of the digital environment at university. The study reviewed existing research and survey evidence from institutions, as well as conducting original interviews and focus groups. Jisc and its co-design partners (UCISA, SCONUL, RLUK and RUGIT) are now supporting a consultation phase across the higher education sector which will inform the final guidance to institutions and further actions by Jisc and its partners. The webinar is an opportunity for ALT members to take part in this consultation, not only exploring how the findings are reflected at your own institution but helping to shape the future of the project. Jisc is also about to launch a parallel study and consultation process in further education.</p>
<p><strong>About the presenters</strong></p>
<p>Helen Beetham is a long-standing advisor to the Jisc e-learning programme and to diverse HEIs in the UK, including through Changing the Learning Landscape. She was a member of the Beyond Current Horizons programme, funded by the last UK government to advise on the future of education beyond 2025. She has led on a number of influential reports and funded programmes, from Learners' Experiences of e-Learning to e-portfolios, and from Open Content to Curriculum Design. She is a widely published e-learning author and an experienced webinar and workshop leader. Currently Helen is working on a study of students' experiences of the digital environment at university, and compiling outcomes from the Jisc programme on Developing Digital Literacies in Higher Education.</p>
<p>David White works in the overlapping space between education, academia and technology. He currently co-manages Technology - assisted Lifelong Learning (TALL), an award winning online-learning research and development group at the University of Oxford. He researches how students and staff engage with the web for their learning and the ways in which they develop their identities online. David has led national studies on Online Learning and Open Educational Resources. He is currently Co-PI on the international Digital Visitors and Residents project.</p>
<p><strong>The 21st annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology Monday 1st - Wednesday 3rd September 2014, University of Warwi</strong><strong>ck, UK</strong></p>
<p>For information about the conference please see the <a href="http://www.alt.ac.uk/alt-conference/altc2014">altc2014 pages</a> on the ALT website.</p>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT: </strong>Please read the following notes before proceeding to the booking form.</p>
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<li><strong>Membership discounts:</strong> Ordinary or Certified Members of ALT, or representatives of Organisational or Sponsoring Members of ALT are entitled to a 20% discount on all conference fees. To check whether your organisation is a member of ALT please see the <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/get-involved/organisational-members">list of Organisational and Sponsoring Members</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Add ALT membership and save money! </strong>There is an option on the booking form to add Ordinary Membership which will entitle you to members' rates for the conference. This combination will save you money if booking for the full conference.</li>
<li><strong>Accommodation bookings: </strong>this year accommodation bookings are being taken directly by ALT as part of the registration process. Please select which nights you require and refer to the <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/alt-conference/altc2014/accommodation">Accommodation page</a> for detail about the rooms.</li>
<li><strong>Catering: </strong>the Sunday evening meal is not included in the conference registration fee, please include this at cost if you will require dinner as options on campus are limited unless pre-booked. Monday and Tuesday evening meals are included in the conference registration fee, but we ask you to specify if you will attend to avoid waste.</li>
<li><strong>Participant list: </strong>we will share your details with all altc2014 participants, including sponsors and exhibitors, who may contact you in the run up to the event as part of their networking activities. Please specify if you wish to be included on this list.</li>
<li><strong>Presenter details: </strong>please specify if you are the <u>main presenter</u> for a session at the conference and include your paper ID number. The standard set-up for all breakout rooms is theatre layout with a desktop computer for the presenter, data projector and wifi access. If you have any additional requirements please <a href="mailto:anna.davidge@alt.ac.uk">contact Anna Davidge</a> by Friday 15 August at the latest.</li>
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<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 http://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs.</p>
<p>The session is designed to provide information and support to candidates looking to complete their portfolios in the next few months. 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>
<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 http://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs.</p>
<p>The session is designed to provide information and support to candidates looking to complete their portfolios in the next few months. 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>
<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 http://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs.</p>
<p>The session is designed to provide information and support to candidates looking to complete their portfolios in the next few months. 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>
<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 http://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs.</p>
<p>The session is designed to provide information and support to candidates looking to complete their portfolios in the next few months. 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>
<p>A recording of the webinar is now available on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMVUtXVTyjA&feature=c4-overview&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 “Research in Learning Technology” journal recently published a supplement on "The art and science of learning design". 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’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>Valérie Emin-Martinez</strong>, PhD in Computer Sciences at University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble 1), is a researcher at the Institut Français de l’Éducation in Ecole Normale Supérieure 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 "Pedagogical scenarios design", "Game based learning" and "Design and uses of Serious Games" in real classrooms. She’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 & 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 (“Meeting teachers' co-design needs by means of Integrated Learning Environments”).</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 http://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs.<br /><br />The session is designed to provide information and support to candidates looking to complete their portfolios in the next few months.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />There will also be time for individual questions at the end of the session.</p>