This summer the Open Ed Sig is hosting a webinar which brings together people from across the many Open Education communities in order to facilitate a discussion of our shared values. The Open Ed Sig, having attempted to make the many facets of open communities visible through this “Joining the dots” initiative, invited representatives from […] View Article
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Dear Members I’d like to start this report with a warm welcome to everyone who’s joined ALT this year. It’s… View Article
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The question in the title of this blog post was raised by the QAA commissioned research report “Digital… View Article
9 CommentsIt was a wet and cold Friday morning in February when I posted this request to ALT-MEMBERS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK ‘End of week TEL challenge! During my research I’ve found a host of reports critical of the claims of TEL and the quality of TEL research. Calling on Surowiecki’s ‘wisdom of crowds’ I wondered who on the list […] View Article
Leave a commentThis ALT Open Education SIG webinar is shared with FELTAG SIG and is part of a series of webinars ALT is organising in support of the FELTAG Movement. Thursday 15th June, 1pm View recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2017-06-15.0531.M.39572659483D2F3A05887B43B73705.vcr&sid=7565 The promise of open educational resources is attractive – a cornucopia of free resources, alternative explanations, different media, different […] View Article
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Colin McLean, Registrar at IT Sligo, and Paul Gormley, Chair of ILTA, got the conference off to an inspiring start.… View Article
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The UCISA DCG Spotlight on digital capabilities conference on ‘Student futures – equipping students to thrive in the… View Article
Leave a commentIbrar Bhatt’s book ‘Assignments as Controversies: Digital Literacy and Writing in Classroom Practice’ explores the practices of learners in college classrooms. This monograph is a development of Ibrar Bhatt’s PhD research, published in the Routledge Research in Literacy Series. Prior to reading the book, I wondered about its audience and potential usefulness for classroom […] View Article
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This is the story of the creation and publication of the #EdTechRations book as told by its creator, David… View Article
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‘We are here to make the most of social media in teaching, learning and assessment. We recognise social media is… View Article
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One of the joys and sometimes the challenges of being part of a global open education community… View Article
Leave a commentFor those looking at CMALT I would be happy to run a webinar to assist anyone who needs help. Also I here are my top 5 tips as someone who has been assessing CMALT portfolios for the past 5 years. Reflection, reflection reflection. One of the common reason for a portfolio to go back to […] View Article
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