Mon, Dec 7 2015, 11:00am – 11:30am

This session is an opportunity to get to know the ALT Online Winter Conference site and find out how to get the most out of your online conference experience.more

Mon, Dec 7 2015, 12:30pm – 1:30pm

This pre-conference webinar taking place in the week of the Online Winter Conference is run by the ALT Open Education Special Interest Group (OESIG). For more information on the OESIG and other ALT Member Groups please visit our get involved page. This free webinar will give a highlight of exciting open education news and practices from the annual ‘OpenEd’ Conference to be held this year in Vancouver, 18-20 November (#opened15). The webinar will focus on teaching practices, research and policy from the perspective of US, Canadian and international communities. The webinar will be presented by: Dr Viv Rolfe from the...more

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 9:15am – 9:30am

An introduction to the daymore

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 9:30am – 10:00am

This session will showcase three portfolios from recently accredited Certified Members, Elizabeth Charles (Birkbeck), David Watson (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and Daniel Villalba Algas (Sheffield University). Facilitated by David Hopkins (Warwick Business School) we will focus on exploring different approaches to building CMALT portfolios and discuss how different job roles can be reflected. Artifacts: Padlet at http://padlet.com/david_watson/ALTWinterConference_2015 You can access Daniel’s portfolio openly at https://sites.google.com/a/sheffield.ac.uk/cmalt_dvillalba/ APOLOGIES: due to technical difficulties we do not have a recording of this session. We will however run a follow up session with all the presenters in early 2015more

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 10:00am – 10:30am

OB3 (http://www.ob3.io) is a collaborative learning web app design for Higher Education. It allows students and teachers to create media-rich documents and engage in collaborative study activities within content. OB3 connects to VLEs via the LTI standard. OB3 is mainly used in upper level undergraduate and postgrad online courses, particularly within medicine. It supports learning activities where students need to create content (individually, or working in groups), upload media, or engage in discussions within content. ALT participants will be provided with access to sample course content in OB3, and an opportunity to engage in sample study activities. The webinar will...more

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 10:30am – 11:00am

The physiotherapy team at the University of Liverpool is developing the use of an iPad App to support students on clinical placements. The App allows students to record feedback from clinical educators and the data to be accessed by the teaching team back at the university. The collected data also provides students with an evidence to set weekly objectives. The App was originally developed by the School of Dentistry to support clinical skills development. The physiotherapy placements at Liverpool are based on a hub and spoke model. Over the course of each placement students are supported by several clinical educators....more

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 11:00am – 11:30am

Blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a dynamic list of data records, hardened to prevent tampering and revision. It is the framework for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. A Blockchain learning tool would provide a secure and verifiable learning transaction ledger. Its decentralised nature would ensure a learner, rather than institution-centred record of achievements that would be difficult to tamper with, enabling parties, such as employers or learning institutions, to review with confidence. As a mechanism for transferring credit, Blockchain might also be used to enable selected actions to be rewarded with tokens that can be then traded against future learning...more

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 11:30am – 12:00am

PLEASE NOTE: Apologies – this session has been cancelled The technology-based skills audit has become a much-maligned resource within the teachers’ staffroom: often cited as a pointless exercise in generating paperwork, with questions that don’t relate wholly to the specifc aim of the audit, and, as a result, staff levels of knowledge and confidence regarding learning technology remaining unchanged, while levels of scepticism grow. Cardiff University’s School of Healthcare Sciences has developed an online audit that: * Takes participants no more than a few minutes to complete * Relates to social media, OERs, and free-to-use, web based TEL apps and...more

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 12:00pm – 12:30pm

The currently running MOOC Survey www.moocsurvey.org is enabling real understanding of: * Impacts that production of MOOCs are having within Institutions * The process of how MOOCs are being implemented * Drivers and rationale for producing MOOCs The survey is currently circulating sector-wide and internationally through networks and social media. The artefact will be a survey link and a showcase of key results so far visualised in an interactive format. These will link 3 sections (impacts, implementation and drivers) together and provide an exploration of the different perspectives generated so far. Most importantly it will enable discussions and perspectives of...more

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 1:00pm – 1:30pm

The York Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) Handbook acts as a companion to teaching practice at the University of York, presenting approaches that are designed to improve student engagement and learning and teaching. The Handbook is grounded in pedagogical principles, promoting evaluation and development throughout. In the live session we will outline the rationale for the project in light of institutional strategy, the approach taken to harmonise existing support resources and initial feedback from lecturing staff at York. Link to the Handbook – http://bit.ly/ytelhb Proposed Artifact: Handbook itself and short summary video in advance of live session. Artifact links: http://bit.ly/ytelhb      ...more

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 1:30pm – 2:00pm

I will discuss the development of a flipped-lecture programming course. In this course I have used videos and nearpod (in a computer cluster) with up to 130 students–with some success since the course won best in e-learning in the EPS faculty at Manchester, based on student nominations. I would like to debate some of the ideas underlying this course; also there are some aspects that could do with some improvement, and I could do with some feedback. I will make some of the materials (a video, a nearpod homework session, and maybe one or two other artifacts) available before my...more

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 2:00pm – 2:30pm

Twitter use, particularly #edchat type events, by teachers in both compulsory and HE sectors, has become a favourite channel for sharing resources and ideas. In the process, teachers have built strong communities of practice. By using OER YouTube videos to show how to use social media (Twitter) for these purposes, teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) should soon be able to replicate this successful use of social media. The barriers that have existed to date are slowly breaking down as communication technologies improve and become more accessible in many nations in the region. Now is the time to build bridges over...more

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 2:30pm – 3:00pm

This presentation will consist of a live link up to the Winter meeting of the ALT Regional Interest Group for the East Midlands (EMLT), at De Montfort University. It will provide participants with an opportunity to hear from members, across the region, talking about the use of technology to support assessment. These short presentations will provide an insight into the way technology can support a wide range of assessment practices and subject areas. Within the 30 minute session we hope to see at least 2 examples from the group with opportunities to ask questions to the presenters via text chat facilities....more

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 3:00pm – 3:30pm

Is Open Education more than an idealistic philosophy about how learning can be extended to all? This session will demonstrate the practical support and debate that ALT’s Open Education Special Interest Group offers to all those involved in education at any level. The remit of this SIG is to support, develop, sustain and influence policy in open education. You will be warmly invited to contribute your views and perspectives on key issues including: · Strategies for creating a better understanding the landscape for education, managing ownership and creativity · Methods of disseminating awareness of open licensing through use of Creative...more

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 3:30pm – 4:00pm

The Edugraph semantic tool is used by content owners to offer their catalogues to education users. Edugraph understands, tags and maps all content pieces including video. It extracts concepts and compiles metadata, and scores the media’s relevance to knowledge frameworks such as bespoke or generic education ontologies. The webinar will exhibit the tool and workflows: ingests and cleans media, transcribes and adds value by enrichment with keywords, entities and inferred concepts through NLP aligns the semantically understood content to ontologies and SKOS content discovery from within third party applications Users include large media catalogues and educational publishers such as BBC,...more

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 4:00pm – 4:30pm

As part of the Jisc ‘Institution as e-textbook publisher’ programme, the University of the Highlands and Islands and Edinburgh Napier University are collaborating on the eTIPS (e-Textbook Institutional Publishing Service) project. The aim of eTIPS is to investigate the question “Will the institution as e-textbook creator help students by providing a more affordable higher education, and promote a better, more sustainable information environment for libraries, students and faculty?”. eTIPS is exploring this through: Producing two e-textbooks to support student research projects; Developing a companion website providing access to relevant open education resources; Researching and evaluating the uptake and use of...more

Wed, Dec 9 2015, 4:30pm – 4:45pm

We review some of the activity from day 1 of the conference and look forward to day 2more

Thu, Dec 10 2015, 9:15am – 9:30am

A welcome to day 2more

Thu, Dec 10 2015, 9:30am – 10:00am

Open Badges 101 (#OB101) is a collaborative community course designed to provide everything that you might want to know about badges… but were afraid to ask! Led by Bryan Mathers and Doug Belshaw (consultants with City & Guilds), with input from researchers and practitioners worldwide, the course is currently nearing completion of its alpha stage. The course combines essential information about: * how and why badges are useful in various contexts * the technical underpinnings of the Open Badges * guidance around implementation * an opportunity for participants to earn their first badge In this session Bryan and Doug will...more

Thu, Dec 10 2015, 10:00am – 10:30am

The Phoenix Project is one of the transforming communities engagement projects that demonstrate Cardiff University’s commitment to the communities of Cardiff, Wales and beyond. In October 2015, Matt Smith, eLearning Project Manager, visited the University of Namibia to work with the institution’s Centre for eLearning and Interactive Media (CeLIM). The purpose of this visit was to identify opportunities for joint capacity building and sharing of good practice in order to develop innovative educational practice. This session will outline findings of the visit and the subsequent work streams and deliverables that aim to benefit educational practice at both institutions and beyond....more

Thu, Dec 10 2015, 10:30am – 11:00am

Each student has different learning needs & where a personalised learning approach is taken to their education, students & their educators work to tailor pedagogy, curriculum, & the learning environment to suit those needs.Technology has made personalisation easier than ever before, & the award winning series The 12 Apps of Christmas focuses this year on helping 3rd level students with one aspect of this process – how to access information, engage with it, &/or express their knowledge & understanding of it in line with their learning preferences, before going on to show how mobile apps can help. Central to personalisation...more

Thu, Dec 10 2015, 11:00am – 11:30am

UCL has recently been trailing a system in UCL Moodle to enable students and their Personal Tutors to view their feedback and grades in one place. This plugin is available open source via moodle.org: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=report_myfeedback This plugin is currently under development as part of a UCL project, which is funded until mid 2016. In this session we will take a look at the My Feedback report and discuss how it can be used by students and staff to understand the feedback students receive, identifying any common areas that require improvement. We welcome input from others who are trialing or developing...more

Thu, Dec 10 2015, 11:30am – 12:00pm

This presentation will explore the possibilities of using big data to improve understanding of learner practices and knowledge infrastructures in networked learning, the obstacles to that use and will think about how things might be different. A good example of how social media data can be used to inform learner practices in real time is TAGSExplorer that offers a simple way to visualise conversations from Twitter hash tags. It’s challenging to understand learner practices on social media and requires a range of data. One difficulty for researchers investigating of learner experiences on social media can be access to ‘big data’...more

Thu, Dec 10 2015, 1:00pm – 1:30pm

The FE sector is currently under considerable challenge, with funding cuts, Area Reviews, lecturer shortages, and increasing competition. This period of challenge also presents an opportunity to explore new delivery models for blended learning scaled up beyond department level initiatives. This session aims to both outline and explore different scalable models based on emerging best practice across the FE sector and OCR’s work on post-16 maths & English delivery. Proposed Artifact: Power point presentation A recording of the session is now available to view: http://go.alt.ac.uk/1IX4zzgmore

Thu, Dec 10 2015, 1:30pm – 2:00pm

How do we best help our time-pressured academics design rich blended and online courses? To address this timeless conundrum, UCL has developed ABC, an effective and engaging hands-on workshop that has now been trialled with great success over a range of programmes. In just 90 minutes using a game format teams are able to work together to create a visual ‘storyboard’ outlining the type and sequence of learning activities (both online and offline) required to meet the module’s learning outcomes. ABC is particularly useful for new programmes or those changing to an online or more blended format. We are currently...more

Thu, Dec 10 2015, 2:00pm – 2:30pm

Building the digital capability of learners and staff is critical for universities, colleges and the skills sector. Effective use of digital technology by staff is vital in providing a compelling student experience and in realising a good return on investment in technology. The session will look at the expectations of students in regard to digital technologies. How should institutions respond to students’ changing expectations? Staff having the appropriate understanding and approach to digital technologies. This webinar will look at the issues around the digital capability and digital students. It will also look at the work being undertaken by Jisc R&D...more

Thu, Dec 10 2015, 2:30pm – 3:00pm

Content-based curricula which require students to have facts at the tip of the tongue has had its day. Multiplication tables, historical dates, scientific formulae and so on are all important, but they are never further than a search engine away. More important is the application of facts in real world scenarios. Their application gives them context, makes them useful to the learner and makes the concepts transferable. The challenge for education is to move from content-based to project-based curricula. Technology will be an enabler in this process delivering content and the communication medium for students to participate in disciplinary learning...more

Thu, Dec 10 2015, 3:00pm – 3:30pm

During summer 2015 we worked with our Nursing programme to move their VLE delivery from a single site for all their teaching content, to individual module sites linked to the student records system. As learning technologists, we were able to provide guidance, training and support to the team to help facilitate the change during a relatively short timeframe. A site template was developed that included automated elements, such as reading lists. The module site approach offers a more consistent experience for students; whilst services can provide better support. The new approach ensures that students can now access via the mobile...more

Thu, Dec 10 2015, 3:30pm – 4:00pm

Learning Layers’ is focused on scaling up technologies for Informal Learning in SME Clusters. A particular domain of study is the Healthcare, where we have identified that providing support to bridge between f2f and online discussions by workgroups is needed: guidelines and pathways have to be understood, interpreted and implemented according to local needs; this is why it is common for workgroups to be set-up to review new guidelines and come up with proposals for implementation. Key issues: to ensure that the exchange of knowledge is not lost; keeping the work focused and flowing. Confer provides an online collaboration spaces...more

Thu, Dec 10 2015, 4:00pm – 4:30pm

This session will be of interest in anyone in joining the Group and/or being one of the officers. During the session we will discuss a possible remit based on that of the East Midlands Group but this will be up to the member’s to shape up. The aim of the group is to: • Build a community of practice and learning amongst colleagues in the West Midlands; • Provide an opportunity to discuss concerns that may be common across the region; • Brief each other on areas of new technologies that may not lie on all our horizons but could...more

Thu, Dec 10 2015, 4:30pm – 4:45pm

We take a moment to reflect on the ALT Online Winter Conference and thank our participants, speakers and supportersmore