Beginning on 30 October 2013 you can participate in a series of webinars funded by the JISC IOE Digital Literacy project, and hosted by ALT free of charge on Blackboard Collaborate.

This series will explore the themes of the forthcoming Special Issue of Research in Learning Technology, which will focus on Digital Literacies and Digital Scholarship. The authors of four of the papers in the Special Issue will present on their research and theoretical perspectives surrounding these themes.

The series will be curated by Lesley Gourlay (joint editor of RLT) and Special Issue guest editors Martin Oliver and Norm Friesen. Sessions will involve presentation, exploration of themes by the facilitators and open discussion with participants.

Book your place now at the links below:

30 October 2013: Scholarly, Digital, Open: an impossible triangle?

7 November 2013: Multimodal Profusion in the Massive Open Online Course

28 November 2013: The Five Resources of Critical Digital Literacy - A Framework for Curriculum Integration

5 December 2013: Textual Practices in the New Media Digital Landscape - Messing with Digital Literacies

Research in Learning Technology, the journal of the Association for Learning Technology, has been Open Access since 1 January 2012 and is published by Co-Action Publishing. For more information visit the journal website at http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net