{"id":1601,"date":"2012-06-08T11:17:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T10:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2015-08-20T11:36:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T10:36:37","slug":"in-this-edition-issue-27-may-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/in-this-edition-issue-27-may-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"In this Edition &#8211; Issue 27, June 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/?p=1656\">Aaron Sloman, Honorary Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at the University of Birmingham,\u00a0reflects on what is known about learning, and on the difficulties that exist in understanding it. These reflections were prompted by watching remotely part of the panel presentations at the 23 May launch of the Ufi Charitable Trust.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/?p=1592\">Team SCARLET introduce the SCARLET (Special Collections using Augmented Reality to Enhance Learning and Teaching) project discussing its creation and development, as well as its use of Augmented Reality (AR) in education, including content development, evaluative processes, and the implemented technology.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/?p=1765\">Peter Wren introduces the Supporting Learning and Teaching Programme he runs at Imperial College London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Using Blackboard Collaborate 11 to deliver a global online conference\" href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/2012\/06\/blackboard-collaborate\/\">Simon Kear reports on and evaluates the use of the Blackboard Collaborate 11 virtual classroom for delivering the Follow the Sun 2012 conference.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following on the conference theme we have three reports on recent conferences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/2012\/06\/blackboard-conference\/\">Adel Gordon and Julie Usher report on the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference held in Antwerp, Belgium.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/?p=1675\">James Clay reports on the Ireland and UK Moodlemoot held in Dublin, Ireland.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/?p=1678\">Catherine Cronin, Farzana Latif, Matt Lingard and Santanu Vasant report on the Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference (PELeCON) held in Plymouth, UK.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New to the ALT Newsletter is a feature on the ALT Special Interest Groups, with the first article introducing us to the work of the <a href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/?p=1685\">ViTAL (Video in Teaching And Learning) SIG<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, for our &#8216;Week in the life&#8217; series, <a title=\"A week in the life of\u2026 Sarah Sherman, The Bloomsbury Colleges\" href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/2012\/06\/sarah-sherman\/\">Sarah Sherman from the Bloomsbury Colleges provides an insight into her life as the Bloomsbury Learning Environment Manager.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to contribute an article to the ALT Newsletter, please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alt.ac.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/assets_editor_uploads\/documents\/guidelines_for_altn_authors_2009.pdf\">submission guidelines <\/a>or send an enquiry to <a href=\"mailto:j.voce@imperial.ac.uk\">Julie Voce<\/a> (Acting Editor).<\/p>\n<p class=\"info\">Julie Voce<br \/>\nActing Editor, ALT Newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\">If you enjoyed reading this article we invite you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alt.ac.uk\/get-involved\/membership\">join the Association for Learning Technology (ALT)<\/a> as an individual member, and to encourage your own organisation to join ALT as an organisational or sponsoring member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Sloman, Honorary Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at the University of Birmingham,\u00a0reflects on what is known about learning, and on the difficulties that exist in understanding it. 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