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<p>Join us on Friday the 14th of April 2023, at 11am (BST), where we'll from Lisa Moore from the University of Creative Arts and Tim Riley from Aberdeen University speaking about their journey of becoming a copyright specialist.</p>
<p>The webinar is completely free, and no registration is required, all you have to do is tune in on the 14th at 11am. </p>
<p><a href="https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/b0ed6c888307480ba897751a57f93713">Join the webinar via Blackboard Collaborate</a>.</p>
<p>This is an online meeting of the White Rose Group. We will have two presentations from the membership, and also a more in depth workshop focusing on digital skills for our students.</p>
<p>As part of Ufi’s recent grant funding evaluation, grant recipients were asked to reflect on the key lessons they have learned when developing learning technology and the advice they would give to future recipients of funding from Ufi. </p>
<p>Led by Ufi Project and Partnership Manager Patrick Dunn, this lunchtime learning session will explore the major themes that emerged from more than 100 responses.</p>
<p>Following on from the Blog post <a href="https://altc.alt.ac.uk/blog/2023/03/breaking-down-barriers-to-active-lea... down barriers to active learning (Part 1)</a> Dr Rod Cullen, Steven Williams and Dr Janet Lord from Manchester Metropolitan University will host an interactive webinar where they will discuss how they operationalised their Teaching and Learning Toolkit including: App selection; procurement; roll-out; accessibility; training/staff development; and evaluation.</p>
<p>In our final session, join us to hear our final reflections, what we've learned about hosting a Mastodon server and what we're planning next.</p>
<h2>Why are we doing this? </h2>
<p>ALT and Reclaim EdTech are partnering to offer our communities the opportunity to explore Mastodon starting in January 2023. The server we set up will act as a platform for our communities to explore and get to know Mastodon. The server will be temporary, but depending on what we learn along the way, we will decide how to proceed. So, whether you are completely new to the fediverse, or looking for other edtech folk to connect with, join us to explore and learn together.</p>
<p>ALT and Reclaim EdTech are already active on Mastodon, and many in our communities are, too. We are looking to learn more about how we can support folk in this space, how community servers might function, how they could be moderated and what the costs involved might be, too.</p>
<p>This is an opportunity to learn more about being active on Mastodon as well as learning about setting up, hosting and moderating servers for communities like ours and complement what we can learn from already established communities and servers with hands-on experience. </p>
<p>In this session, we'll talk about how educators are enacting anti-oppressive pedagogies in online learning settings. We'll also explore the affordances of technologies to promote criticality and foster sociopolitical consciousness in online teaching and learning.</p>
<p><strong>Speaker: María Migueliz Valcarlos, University of South Florida Tampa, Florida, USA</strong></p>
<p>The webinar is based on the following article: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://www.researchgate.net/p... href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343418420_Anti-oppressive_pedag... rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/<wbr />publication/343418420_Anti-<wbr />oppressive_pedagogies_in_<wbr />online_learning_a_critical_<wbr />review</a></p>
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<p>Join the ALT South #TechThurdays event with Dr. Manish Malik and Dr. Jebraeel Gholinezhad from the University of Portsmouth to learn about an inclusive innovation, Examopedia - the collaborative exam revision service that has helped academics improve teaching and support ALL students since 2007. With closed book exams returning back after the pandemic, students are in need of extra practice and support to succeed. Examopedia provides the perfect solution, offering an innovative approach to exam preparation that has already been successfully used in one engineering school before the pandemic. It can also support staff and students where open book exams are continuing to be used. By tapping into the cultural and social capital through the use of ChatGPT, Examopedia promotes independent study, improving students' confidence and overall academic performance for ALL students regardless of their academic background.</p>
<p>Dr Sarah Broadberry will be joining the ALT South TechThurday event. Sarah is Learning and Teaching Manager (Principal Lecturer) at Nottingham Trent University. We will talk about Open and Inclusive Assessments and find out about the lessons learnt from the pandemic in making assessment inclusive. We will also launch of Innovative and Inclusive Assessment Working group. Join us to make a difference for students with disabilities and making assessment fit for purpose for the modern workplace.</p>
<p>Dr Manjinder Kanth, CEO at GRAIDE, will be joining the ALT South TechThurday event. Find out how the use of AI in helping with marking scripts and how ChatGPT may affect the shape of assessment in future. This talk will introduce you to the world of AI and specifically ChatGPT. We will discuss what AI is, how it works, and provide a basic description of all AI systems. We will delve into ChatGPT, exploring its power and capabilities, and demonstrate what it can do. The talk will also address any concerns educators may have about AI, providing a list of reasons why they should or shouldn't be worried. </p>
<p>In addition, we will present an AI tool that educators can use to reduce their grading workload, called Graide. We will explain why we built Graide, how it works, and provide a short demo to showcase its effectiveness. By the end of the talk, you will have a better understanding of the potential of AI in higher education and how it can help you manage your workload more efficiently. </p>
<p>This year, the conference will take place from 5th - 7th September 2023, at The Oculus, University of Warwick, UK. </p>
<p>The Conference is held over three days every September and based in the UK, providing a valuable and practical forum for practitioners, researchers, managers and policy-makers from education and industry to solve problems, explore, reflect, influence and learn.The conference format evolves each year to keep pace with the changing expectations and priorities of participants and speakers, but its core values remain strong.</p>