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<p>The webinar will be run using Blackboard Collaborate 11.&nbsp; 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<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs">http://www.alt.ac.uk/events/we...
<p>The webinar will start at 1315 GMT, and will finish no later than 14.15 GMT.</p>
<p>The session is designed to provide information and support to new CMALT assessors</p>
<p>It will provide an overview of the assessment criteria, advice on how to complete an assessment 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>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 will provide an overview of the assessment criteria, advice on how to complete an assessment 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>

<p>View a recording of the webinar on the <a title="Link to webinar recording" href="http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2209/">ALT Open Access Repository</a>.</p>
<p>This webinar will enable Diana and Stephen in turn to present contrasting responses to the question which forms the title of the session, and participants to raise questions and make comments.</p>
<p>The session will be moderated by Maren Deepwell and Seb Schmoller, and the hashtag for the event is #ldcomp.</p>
<h2>About the presenters</h2>
<p><strong>Diana Laurillard</strong> is Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies at the London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, leading externally-funded research projects on (i) developing a learning design support environment for teachers, and (ii) developing software interventions for learners with low numeracy and dyscalculia. This work relates closely to her roles as Assistant Director for Open Mode learning, and as a founder member of the Planning Board for the cross-institutional Centre for Educational Neuroscience (IOE, Birkbeck, UCL). She is joint coordinator for the MSc in Learning Technologies with Birkbeck, and is also involved in consultancies for La Guardia College USA, the Institute of Education Hong Kong, Temasek Polytechnic Singapore. Diana's current roles include: Boards of the Observatory for Borderless HE, Supervisory Council for Fern Universit&auml;t in Hagen, Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for IT in Education. She has given many international keynote addresses, published in many academic journals and books, and her book Rethinking University Teaching: A conversational framework for the effective use of learning technologies (2002, RoutledgeFalmer), one of the most widely cited in the field, is now translated into Chinese (ECU Presss, 2011). Her forthcoming book is &lsquo;Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology&rsquo; (Routledge).</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Downes</strong> is a senior researcher for Canada's National Research&nbsp;Council and a leading proponent of the use of online media and services&nbsp;in education. As the author of the widely-read OLDaily online&nbsp;newsletter, Downes has earned international recognition for his&nbsp;leading-edge work in the field of online learning. He developed some of&nbsp;Canada's first online courses at Assiniboine Community College in&nbsp;Brandon, Manitoba. He also built a learning management system from&nbsp;scratch and authored the now-classic "The Future of Online Learning".&nbsp;At&nbsp;the University of Alberta he built a learning and research portal for&nbsp;the municipal sector in that province, Munimall, and another for the&nbsp;Engineering and Geology sector, PEGGAsus. He also pioneered the&nbsp;development of learning objects and was one of the first adopters and&nbsp;developers of RSS content syndication in education. Downes introduced&nbsp;the concept of e-learning 2.0 and with George Siemens developed and&nbsp;defined the concept of Connectivism, using the social network approach&nbsp;to deliver open online courses to three thousand participants over two&nbsp;years. Downes has been offering courses in learning, logic, philosophy&nbsp;both online and off since 1987, has 135 articles published in books,&nbsp;magazines and academic journals, and has presented his unique&nbsp;perspective on learning and technology more than 250 times to audiences&nbsp;in 17 countries on five continents.</p>

<p>The webinar will be run using Blackboard Collaborate 11.&nbsp; 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 webinar will start at 1230 UK time, and will finish no later than 1330.<br /><br />The session is designed to provide information and support to new CMALT assessors<br /><br />It will provide an overview of the assessment criteria, advice on how to complete an assessment 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>