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<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>
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<p>The webinar will be run using Blackboard Collaborate 11. On registering for the webinar you will receive a confirmation email containing joining instructions. Please follow these instructions and allow 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"> </span><a title="Link to ALT webinar FAQs" href="http://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs">http://www.alt.ac.uk/events/we...
<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>Recordings from the conference are now available via the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXyOeMbuQNU&feature=c4-overview&l... YouTube Channel</a>.</p>
<p>Slides from the conference are available from the <a href="http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2326/">ALT Repository</a>.</p>
<p>This one day conference is about current MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) research, experience and development. A key focus of the event is on exploring the impact of MOOCs, how data is created, used and analysed and to consider the potential of MOOCs in education. Organised by ALT’s Special Interest Group for MOOCs, the conference will bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss, discover and define the evolving MOOC landscape.</p>
<p>For more information about the ALT MOOC SIG and to get involved click <a href="http://www.alt.ac.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/alt-mooc-sig">.... The hashtag for the event is #altmoocsig</p>
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<td style="height: 40px; width: 100px; border-color: #000000;">9.15-9.30</td>
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<p>Welcome: Maren Deepwell - Chief Executive, Association for Learning Technology</p>
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<td style="height: 40px; width: 100px; border-color: #000000;">9.30-10.15</td>
<td style="width: 100px; height: 40px; border-color: #000000;">Session 1: Don Nutbeam - Vice-Chancellor, University of Southampton</td>
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<p>'Aspects surrounding the role of MOOCs in a modern University'</p>
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<td style="height: 40px; width: 100px; border-color: #000000;">10.15-10.45</td>
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<td style="height: 40px; width: 100px; border-color: #000000;">10.45-11.15</td>
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<p>Session 2: Simon Nelson - Chief Executive, Futurelearn</p>
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<td style="height: 40px; width: 100px; border-color: #000000;">11.15-11.45</td>
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<td style="height: 40px; width: 100px; border-color: #000000;">11.45-12.15</td>
<td style="width: 100px; height: 40px; border-color: #000000;">Session 3: Helena Gillespie, Senior Lecturer in Education and Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of East Anglia</td>
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<p>'MOOCs, what makes 'good'?'</p>
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<td style="height: 40px; width: 100px; border-color: #000000;">12.15-13.15</td>
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<td style="height: 40px; width: 100px; border-color: #000000;">13.15-13.45</td>
<td style="width: 100px; height: 40px; border-color: #000000;">Session 4: Amy Woodgate, Project Coordinator Distance Education Initiative (DEI) & MOOCs, University of Edinburgh</td>
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<p>'Looking Beyond the Hype - MOOCs as Catalysts of Major Educational Change'</p>
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<td style="height: 40px; width: 100px; border-color: #000000;">13.45-14.15</td>
<td style="width: 100px; height: 40px; border-color: #000000;">Session 5 (virtual keynote): Doug Fisher, Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning</td>
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<p>'Using MOOCs to enhance on-campus education - experience, lessons, and research opportunities'</p>
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<td style="height: 40px; width: 100px; border-color: #000000;">14.15-14.45</td>
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<p>Session 6 (virtual keynote): Jonathan Worth, BA and MA course director in Photography, Coventry University</p>
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<td style="height: 40px; width: 100px; border-color: #000000;">14.45-15.15</td>
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<td style="height: 40px; width: 100px; border-color: #000000;">15.15-15.45</td>
<td style="width: 100px; height: 40px; border-color: #000000;">Session 7: Martin Hawksey, Innovation and Technology Manager, ALT</td>
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<p>'Show me the data! Actionable insight from open courses'</p>
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<td style="height: 40px; width: 100px; border-color: #000000;">15.45-16.15</td>
<td style="width: 100px; height: 40px; border-color: #000000;">Panel session 2</td>
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<td style="height: 40px; width: 100px; border-color: #000000;">16.15-16.30</td>
<td style="width: 100px; height: 40px; border-color: #000000;">Closing plenary</td>
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