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<p>The webinar is free to attend and open to all, but participants are required to register their interest here <a href="http://goo.gl/1mZa3C" title="Link to online form">http://goo.gl/1mZa3C </a></p>
<p>This is a free webinar about the 2014 Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Research in Learning Technology. This webinar is aimed at contributors who are wishing to submit a paper. For full details, please refer to the <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/publications/research-learning-technology/special-... title="Link to Call for Papers">Special Issue Call for Papers</a>.</p>
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<p>The deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday 31 October 2014</p>
<h2>Aims and rationale</h2>
<div>The purpose of this special issue is to explore the latest innovations in digital technologies for teaching and learning in Higher Education and beyond internationally. The special issue will provide a snapshot/summary of current research - will identify what digital technology innovations are being implemented in higher education and beyond, how they are being researched, and what are the implications for practice and policy.</div>
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<div>Learning Technology innovation in Higher Education and beyond has the potential to challenge, disrupt and enhance the teaching and learning experience for all learners in an increasingly globalised world. Alongside, the changing context of institutions to facilitate/stimulate the innovations in digital technologies must be taken into account. Many educational stakeholders face similar issues in local contexts when developing technology enhanced learning practices. However harvesting and disseminating these efforts remain disparate, and unconnected. It is thus important and timely to consolidate, critically interrogate and extend our understandings of the relationships between digital technologies and practices by taking a global perspective. This offers us the opportunity to apply these learning outputs to develop understanding beyond Higher Education, to other sectors; and also to understand how these practices differ internationally.</div>
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<div>For full details, please refer to the <a href="https://www.alt.ac.uk/publications/research-learning-technology/special-... title="Link to Call for Papers">Special Issue Call for Papers</a>.</div>
<p><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><span style="color:#FF0000;">Registration is now closed. If you haven't yet registered please complete this </span><a data-mce-="" href="https://googledrive.com/host/0BymYUA-4kKX-fnBxTjNubkN5aXNyUjBveW55cVBjN0... style="color:#FF0000;">Microsoft Document (.docx) Form</span></a><span style="color:#FF0000;"> and email your completed form to enquiries@alt.ac.uk . We will then be in touch to confirm your late registration. </span></strong></p>
<p>The 2015 conference will be chaired by Amanda Jefferies, University of Hertfordshire and Liz Masterman, University of Oxford, under the theme ‘Shaping the Future of Learning Together #altc’. The programme will reflect the theme of shaping and sharing learning through breaking down the traditional divisions between stakeholders and between their roles, with a focus on: </p>
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<li>Harnessing the power of the crowd – collaboration and connectivist learning;</li>
<li>Social media in learning and teaching;</li>
<li>Open educational practice;</li>
<li>Learners as agents of change;</li>
<li>Participatory approaches to the development of learning technologies. </li>
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<p>The Annual Conference will give you the opportunity to network, explore new learning technologies at the exhibition, attend the presentation of the Learning Technologist of the Year Award, take part in the ALT AGM and participate in a variety of community-led activities including meetings of ALT’s regional and special interest groups.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">For more information about the conference visit </span><a href="https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2015/" style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;" title="Link to conference site">https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2015/</a> .</p>
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The 2014 ALT winter conference will take place on Tuesday 2 December at the Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh, UK. This first winter conference will have a focus on creative approaches to professional development in Learning Technology and CMALT, ALT’s peer-based accreditation scheme and feature a hands-on new technology showcase.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-63f44467-9a47-6253-cb06-f2e66831f260">Confirmed speakers:</p>
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<li>Nicola Whitton, Manchester Metropolitan University;</li>
<li>Melissa Highton, University of Edinburgh;</li>
<li>Gian Marco Campagnolo, University of Edinburgh;</li>
<li>David Hopkins, University of Warwick Business School;</li>
<li>Clive Young and Steve Rowett, The Digital Department, UCL;</li>
<li>James Clay, Group Director of Learning Technologies at Activate Learning;</li>
<li>Joel Mills, iLearning UK and Hullcraft;</li>
<li>Alison Nimmo, <span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">SHED Vice Convenor</span>;</li>
<li>James Kieft, Reading College.</li>
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<p>The winter conference brings together experienced and new practitioners from colleges, universities and informal learning, early-career and cross-disciplinary researchers and technology experts to share, explore and connect with the community. We are using #altc as a tag for the event on social media.</p>
<h2>Programme</h2>
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<td><strong style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">09.00</strong></td>
<td><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Registration, tea & coffee</span></td>
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<td><strong style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">10.00</strong></td>
<td><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Welcome from Melissa Highton and Martin Hawksey (ALT)</span></td>
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<td><strong style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">10.15</strong></td>
<td><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Social Media Data for the study of IT Markets - </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-63f44467-9a4c-ddbc-8c76-ad17e2e8d456" style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Gian Marco Campagnolo, University of Edinburgh</span></td>
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<td><strong style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">10.45</strong></td>
<td><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Proceed with caution: the application of gamification to learning -</span><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"> Nicola Whitton, University of Manchester</span></td>
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<td><strong style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">11.25</strong></td>
<td><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Tea, coffee & discussion</span></td>
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<td><strong style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">11.40</strong></td>
<td><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">CMALT and new approaches to CPD:</span><br style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;" />
<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">David Hopkins, University of Warwick Business School</span><br style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;" />
<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Clive Young and Steve Rowett, Digital Department, UCL</span><br style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;" />
<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">James Kieft, Reading College</span></td>
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<td><strong style="line-height: 1.6em;">12.30</strong></td>
<td><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"> Lunch</span></td>
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<td><strong style="line-height: 1.6em;">13.30</strong></td>
<td><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Technology showcase:</span><br style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;" />
<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Minecraft in Education: HullCraft: Exploring new pedagogies using Minecraft in Education” - Joel Mills, iLearning UK and Hullcraft</span><br style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;" />
<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Oculus Rift - James Clay, Group Director of Learning Technologies at Activate Learning<br />
Google Glass - John Kerr, University of Glasgow</span></td>
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<td><strong style="line-height: 1.6em;">14.45</strong></td>
<td><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">SHED - Creative approaches to CPD - Alison Nimmo, SHED Vice Convenor</span></td>
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<td><strong style="line-height: 1.6em;">15.15</strong></td>
<td><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Plenary discussion with tea and coffee</span></td>
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<td><strong style="line-height: 1.6em;">16.00</strong></td>
<td><strong style="line-height: 1.6em;"> </strong><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Close</span></td>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">This programme is still subject to minor changes. </span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Speaker Details</span></h2>
<h3>Melissa Highton</h3>
<p><img alt="Melissa Highton" src="https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/ima... style="width: 150px; height: 150px; float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" />Melissa Highton is Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services Division (LTW) at the University of Edinburgh. She leads services and projects in support of the University’s strategic priorities for digital education, the digital student experience and use of the web for outreach and engagement. LTW manage the continuing expansion and diversification of the University website and provide technology services in over 300 teaching rooms across the campus. The Division brings together technology enhanced learning, e-learning, OER, MOOCs, web services, graphics, multimedia and classroom technology teams to support learning, teaching and research.</p>
![https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/ima...](https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/images/MG_0214_LoRes%281%29.jpg"){kind=link}
<p>@<a href="http://twitter.com/honeybhighton">honeybhighton</a></p>
<h3>Gian Marco Campagnolo</h3>
<p><img alt="Gian Marco Campagnolo" src="https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/ima... style="width: 150px; height: 150px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" />Gian Marco Campagnolo is Lecturer in Science, Technology & Innovation Studies at Edinburgh University. His research addresses the influence of data analytics in business knowledge. He is director of the award winning programme ‘Making Use of Digital Research’: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/PGcertdigitalresearch">http://tinyurl.com/PGcertdigit.... He is also investigator for the RCUK CREATe Research Centre on the impact of digital economy in the creative industry. He has a track record of publications in internationally reputed peer-reviewed journals ranging from Financial Accountability & Management to Engineering Studies and Information, Communication & Society. His most recent award is to apply data analytics techniques to understand Industry Analysts careers.</p>
![https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/ima...](https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/images/campagnolo-150x150.jpg"){kind=link}
<p>@<a href="http://twitter.com/campagnolo_g">campagnolo_g</a></p>
<h3>Nicola Whitton</h3>
<p><img alt="Nicola Whitton" src="https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/ima... style="width: 150px; height: 150px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" />Nicola Whitton is a Senior Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on digital innovation in learning and teaching and, in particular games and learning in the context of Higher Education. Her research interests include interaction design, the impact of motivation and engagement, active learning design, and the pedagogy of play.</p>
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<p>@<a href="http://twitter.com/nicwhitton">nicwhitton</a></p>
<h3>James Keift</h3>
<p style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"><img alt="" src="https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/ima... style="width: 150px; height: 150px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" />I started in further education in 1996 delivering evening & weekend classes, then progressed to full time teaching on the level 3 and HE photography courses. During my time teaching I have always used technology as integral part of delivery initially using Blackboard and then Moodle.</p>
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<p style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">In 2011 I took on the role of Learning Technologies manager at Reading College, Initially working with the College’s Moodle platform, I then oversaw the move away from Moodle to using Google Communities, sites and other web based apps. I was the joint runner up in the ALT learning Technologist of the Year Award in September 2014.</p>
<p style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">@<a href="http://twitter.com/james_kieft">james_kieft</a></p>
<h3>Joel Mills</h3>
<p><img alt="Joel Mills" src="https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/ima... style="width: 150px; height: 150px; float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" />Joel saw his first computer in 1977 aged 5; a Sinclair calculator and has been hooked ever since. His teaching career started in 1997 and since 2009 he has undertaken projects with Kaplan Learning, Essex University and Northumbria University working on research developing mobile teaching and learning workflows. In 2010 he set up <a href="http://www.iLearningUK.com">iLearningUK</a> to advise Educational institutions on suitable pedagogies using technology. Joel is currently working at the University of Hull as a lecturer and advisor on all aspects of teaching enhanced learning.</p>
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<p>@<a href="http://twitter.com/iLearningUK">iLearningUK</a></p>
<h3>John Kerr</h3>
<p><img alt="John Kerr" src="https://www.alt.ac.uk/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/ima... style="width: 150px; height: 150px; float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" />John Kerr is the Learning Innovation Officer for the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow. His focus is on implementing and embedding new and existing learning technologies to improve learning and teaching. He has successfully helped develop and execute two FutureLearn MOOCs and, along with the roll out of Google Glass, he is building two of the Universities first fully online courses. </p>
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<p>@<a href="https://twitter.com/johnkerr001">johnkerr001</a></p>
<h3>Alison Nimmo</h3>
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<div><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Alison is Vice Convenor (and currently acting Convenor) for SHED - the Scottish Higher Education Developers community. Alison is based at Glasgow Caledonian University where she is Head of Accelerate CPD Learning and Teaching. Having recently completed a doctoral programme in Educational Research she graduates next week at Lancaster University. Her research has focussed on emerging professionalism in teaching in HE in the UK. Alison was recently recognised as a Principal Fellow by the Higher Education Academy.</span></div>
<p>This is the annual meeting of ALT's operational committees. This meeting is only open to committee members.</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...
<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>
<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...
<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>
<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="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7565&password=M.F276ABBC318DCD... link</a> (please note the session will not be live until one hour before the start time).</p>
<p>This week’s session looks at examples of enhancement and evaluation in TEL and asks two fundamental questions:</p>
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<li>What can we achieve through TEL?</li>
<li>How do we know that we have made a difference?</li>
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<p>After a very brief introduction by Peter Hartley, our three speakers and their case studies are as follows:</p>
<p><strong>Mark Kerrigan</strong> is the Director of Teaching, Learning and Assessment in the Faculty of Health Social Care and Education for Anglia Ruskin University. He will be talking about the enhancement and evaluation of the iPads in Science initiative, a project by the University of Greenwich (where he used to work). More information and a case study on the project can be found here:<br />
<a href="http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/bestpractice/Copy_of_publications/effective_use.a...
<p><strong>James McDowell</strong> is University Teaching Fellow in the School of Computing and Engineering at the University of Huddersfield. He will be talking about the development of work which won him the 2011 ALT-Epigeum Award for the Most Effective Use of Video. This award recognized the important contribution he has made to the enhancement of student learning through his use of video feedback - <a href="http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/19915/">http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/19915/ </a></p>
<p><strong>Keith Smyth</strong> is a Senior Teaching Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at Edinburgh Napier University, where he leads the MSc Blended and Online Education and works on TEL-related strategic initiatives. Keith will be talking about the development, dissemination and evaluation of the 3E Framework for technology-enhanced learning, teaching and assessment. Since being introduced as the basis for Edinburgh Napier's Benchmark for the Use of Technology in Modules, the 3E Framework has been adapted and implemented by over 25 institutions within and beyond the UK - <a href="http://3eeducation.org/3e-framework/">http://3eeducation.org/3e-framewor... </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...
<p>The session is designed to provide information and support to new CMALT assessors. 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>
<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...
<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>
<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="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=7565&password=M.F27ABB5A1E2FF3... link</a> (please note the session will not be live until one hour before the start time).</p>
<p><strong>Ellie Russell</strong> is the Projects Officer for The Student Engagement Partnership, an initiative housed by NUS and funded by HEFCE, Guild HE and AoC. Ellie works on various projects on student engagement and students as partners, including leading on NUS’ work with Changing the Learning Landscape.</p>
<p>Student engagement can feel simultaneously exciting and difficult. In the first half of the session Ellie will explore the politics of student engagement and the emerging focus on students as partners at a national and local level. She will also explore examples of good practice from institutions and students’ unions on engaging students in curriculum design and TEL projects.</p>
<p><strong>Professor Shân Wareing</strong> is Pro Vice Chancellor for Learning and Teaching at Bucks New University, and has worked closely with national organisations including Jisc, ALT, SEDA, the HEA and the Leadership Foundation of which she's a Fellow. Her academic background is in English Literature and Linguistics, and her previous roles include Dean of Learning and Teaching at University of the Arts London (UAL), where she led teams in Elearning, Teacher Accreditation and Educational Development, and Careers and Employability.</p>
<p>In the second half of the sesion Shân will look at concepts of leadership, and how these can be applied effectively in the context of elearning and higher education, to support students, staff and institutions through times of change. She will draw on examples including the Jisc-funded UAL Digital Literacies Project.</p>
<p><strong style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.6em;">How to join</strong></p>
<p>Participate in the live session using Blackboard Collaborate: <a href="http://go.alt.ac.uk/octel2014-week5-webinar">http://go.alt.ac.uk/octel20... />
Watch live stream of Blackboard Collaborate session on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoRtC_cupvw">https://www.youtube.com/wat...