Tue, Dec 6 2016, 9:30am – 10:00am

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

Tue, Dec 6 2016, 10:00am – 10:45am

The Connacht Ulster Alliance (CUA) is a group of 3 Higher Education Institutes in Ireland comprising GMIT, IT Sligo and LYIT. In 2012, a Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) development team within the CUA initiated a project titled ‘My Experience’ to inform, support and facilitate those applying for RPL to gain entry onto a programme or seek exemptions from parts of a programme. In 2016, the My Experience Project team released a My Experience RPL Toolkit including: a RPL online portfolio assessment tool built on Moodle; a RPL information website at www.myexperience.ie; an online course on RPL Skills for higher education staff...more

Tue, Dec 6 2016, 10:45am – 11:30am

AQD provide staff support and development, and are also business owners for the core learning technology systems at the University. The University is spread across a number of geographically separated locations, and with no institutional knowledgebase and limited-access to online publishing areas we have struggled to find a reliable and consistent approach to supporting our staff with the “why” and “how” aspects of using technology to enable and enhance learning; wherever and whenever they wish to access it. Support materials were dotted – and often duplicated – across a number of different platforms, making it very difficult to a) find...more

Tue, Dec 6 2016, 11:30am – 12:15pm

This sessions aims to explore the topic and pedagogy of how digital technology can be used to showcase soft-skills, taking experience from my work at Barnsley College. Qualifications provide a list of criteria that demonstrate knowledge and performance or competence (hard skills). Soft-skills are aspects that distinguish one learner from their classmate which we call personability. For example imagination, reflectiveness, adaptability, character and sociability. Aspects such as ‘reliability’ and ‘team player’ for example can be taught whilst soft-skills define a character which are not taught but can be caught or acquired at College. Soft-skills are often not captured or presented...more

Tue, Dec 6 2016, 12:15pm – 1:00pm

When advancements in technology started to affect the Higher Education sector, we saw the proliferation of VLE’s, such as Blackboard and Moodle. These platforms have become an integral part of the student experience. However, they no longer provide the experience students expect. The current generation of university and college students are used to smartphones, apps and BYOD. They don’t expect institutions to provide them with a computer and a storage space for Powerpoint slides. They now expect universities to give them access to software and services which will enhance their learning, using their own devices. This is where a platform...more

Tue, Dec 6 2016, 1:30pm – 2:15pm

The EU Erasmus+ CONSTRUIT! project promotes making construals as a new digital skill for creating interactive OERs. A construal is something we construct to make sense of a situation. By observing a construal from different perspectives and freely modifying its state, its maker can experience, and potentially “share”, connections between the construal and external features of the situation to which it refers. The semantic principle being invoked resembles what happens when we toy with the structure of a sentence to better understand its meaning or the nature of a grammatical construction, or when studying and exploring the content of a...more

Tue, Dec 6 2016, 2:15pm – 3:00pm

This year I collaborated with staff in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton to create a pre-entry module, entitled Hit the Ground Running. The aim of this module was to prepare new students for study in the school and to introduce lectures, close reading and information about the facilities at the university prior to their arrival. We achieved a 90% participation rate from the incoming first year cohort. During the presentation I will show: a demonstration of the module from a student perspective; what went well; what we could improve; and also the subtle gamifcation...more

Tue, Dec 6 2016, 3:00pm – 3:45pm

Mahara Users Midlands (MUM) is a new group connecting to share use of Mahara in teaching and learning. This session will demonstrate how integrating a Mahara space in your learning environment can provide an introduction to the tools needed for understanding how the internet works and how to manage your identity online. It will also address the question of why online spaces for reflection, controlled by the student, can help support their confidence in this area which is rapidly growing in importance for employers. Link to text download of webinar chat (including links) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7LgMKjv_GFtY3JfQkF0ek44eVU/view?usp=sharingmore

Tue, Dec 6 2016, 3:45pm – 4:30pm

The School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences offers 8 week summer studentships in both teaching and research centres. These studentships offer students a chance to gain valuable insights into basic biomedical research as well as the educational process. Students who participate in this program make a significant contribution to research projects and the teaching experience. Student outcomes include improved project management skills, insights into the underlying mechanisms of human disease and a deeper understanding of the medical curriculum. Within medical education past projects have covered a wide range of activities and topics: carrying out research (qualitative and quantitative), creating...more

Tue, Dec 6 2016, 4:30pm – 5:15pm

In recent years video become commonplace  in Higher Education with systems such as YouTube being widely used. While this upsurge in easy use of video is happening, storage and sharing of videos can be a significant obstacle for lecturers integrating the use of video into their modules. Commercial companies have designed excellent systems to facilitate higher education requirements.Most commercial systems charge handsomely and do not easily integrate with existing systems. DCU decided to innovate its way to a practical, affordable solution;  we built UniCam, a high quality video recording and sharing system. The system is extremely flexible and has many...more

Wed, Dec 7 2016, 9:30am – 10:00am

This session is an opportunity to get to know the ALT Online Winter Conference site and discuss day 2 of the programme.more

Wed, Dec 7 2016, 10:00am – 10:45am

The purpose of this webinar is to provide an introduction and walkthrough of the open source OER platform ‘EdShare’ which is currently running behind a number of successful OER sites including the recently launched edShare@GCU as well as EdShare Southampton, eShare, Humbox, LanguageBox and more. EdShare (http://www.eprints.org/edshare) was created by the University of Southampton in 2009 as part of a Jisc funded research project to facilitate the sharing of educational resources across the institution.  The emphasis of the original project in 2009 was to implement social “web 2.0” tools on the standard EPrints repository which included large inline previews of...more

Wed, Dec 7 2016, 10:45am – 11:30am

This webinar introduces you to an optional mentorship module which forms part of a Blended & Online Learning & Teaching (BOLT) course for 6 of Hong Kong’s tertiary institutions.  CMALT Professional Development, a self-paced module, is designed to nurture an understanding of the principles and values of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), whilst also providing advice and guidance for potential CMALT applications.  This advice and guidance focuses on the development of critically reflective thinking and the importance of achieving description, evidence, reflection and impact within their statements. Structured through 5 defined sections, interactive multimedia ‘Mentor Views’ provide audio insight...more

Wed, Dec 7 2016, 11:30am – 12:15pm

The Open University Cisco Academy team have been exploring all manner of social media interactions via automation tools such as Hootsuite and IFTTT. In creating a curated tool that in some senses has become its own ghost in the machine – allowing distance learning students to interact with the social learning (Bandura 1963) experience of social media via the situated learning (Lave and Wenger 1991) of ‘whatever’ browser/app/smart-device they are using. There is nothing new regarding the use of social media to enhance student engagement (Junco and Timm 2008), however in many situations the tool is mediated manually. This short...more

Wed, Dec 7 2016, 12:15pm – 1:00pm

Find out how MOOCs have changed educational approaches and institutions.  The internationally successful MOOC Survey (www.moocsurvey.org) formed part of a study to understand the real impacts that MOOCs were having upon institutions from 2013 until the present, through the following themes: 1) Drivers and rationale for producing MOOCs 2) The process of how MOOCs are being implemented 3) Impacts that production of MOOCs are having within Institutions Responses from 28 countries and at 96 unique institutions provide comprehensive and wide-ranging insight into the impacts of MOOCs, coupled with detailed contextual understanding provided through analysis of 10 in-depth interviews with leading...more

Wed, Dec 7 2016, 2:00pm – 2:45pm

This session will build on the recent joint Alt and Jisc webinar run on 21stNov to support one of the six challenges http://bit.ly/2g4D82O that Jisc has consulted on during November; how we can use data to improve teaching and learning http://bit.ly/2eXA0C8. This webinar is a chance for the higher education communities to be briefed on what’s been said about this challenge so far and give your input using interactive techniques. Sarah Davies, head of higher education and student experience, and Ruth Drysdale, senior co-design manager, will give their synthesis of the consultation discussions and ask attendees to provide feedback and add any additional points....more

Wed, Dec 7 2016, 2:45pm – 3:30pm

With the start of a new millennium we have truly entered the digital age, and so it is that those who work within the field of technology enhanced learning find themselves (by default) a part of the digital literacy zeitgeist. Furthermore, it is assumed that we are all digitally literate, and that teaching practitioners (who may only have low levels of digital literacy themselves) are able to hone their students’ digital literacy skills through their teaching. Somehow – instinctively – teachers, learning technologists and researchers are supposed to just know what digital literacy is. And yet, putting it bluntly, many of these...more

Wed, Dec 7 2016, 3:30pm – 4:15pm

This session will show how PowerPoint slides and in-class polling can be combined to create interactive scenarios in which students discuss choices, make decisions and see the consequences. Participants will be able to take part in a short example scenario by voting online using the Meetoo student response system – although the technique will work with all other systems. The process used to develop a scenario will be explained, as well as the technical steps.more

Wed, Dec 7 2016, 4:15pm – 5:00pm

In this webinar six of the ALT blog editors (Chris Rowell, Anne Hole, Santanu Vasant, Stella Ekebuisi, Teresa McKinnon and Howard Scott) will give a short presentation on how to get published on the ALT blog. Firstly, we will give an overview of the types of posts published on the ALT blog.  These mainly consist of case studies, conference/event reports, SIG reports, book reviews, opinion pieces and articles about the ALT community. Secondly, we will give some ‘top tips’ for writing a blog post. This will include advice about writing for the ALT audience. We will also address the style...more

Thu, Dec 8 2016, 9:30am – 10:00am

Join us as we open the final day of the ALT Online Winter Conference. This session is an opportunity to get to know the conference site and discuss day 3 of the programme.more

Thu, Dec 8 2016, 10:00am – 10:45am

Please note: This webinar is being delivered by Blackboard Collaborate Ultra and it is recommended that you use the Chrome browser. Students’ expectations are rising year on year and they expect to see digital technologies throughout their journey in ways that are relevant to their academic success (Beetham, 2013). Using active learning apps is an ideal way to address these expectations and raise the digital literacy of both staff and students in the process. As part of the Digital Futures Strategy the Office for Digital Learning, within Ulster University organised an ‘Apps for Active Learning’ pilot for academic year June 16...more

Thu, Dec 8 2016, 10:45am – 11:30am

In 2014 an ambitious proposal from five Hong Kong universities focused on the importance of eLearning in universities and identified a need for a coordinated and collaborative approach to promoting its use.  The Blended & Online Learning & Teaching (BOLT) Project is a Hong Kong University Grants Committee (UGC)-funded collaboration in which participating tertiary institutions look at developing online learning and teaching in Hong Kong. The project involves multiple approaches, ranging from initiatives within a particular institution – such as the Education University of Hong Kong’s (EdUHK’s) grassroots approach to developing blended learning in a faculty – to more central...more

Thu, Dec 8 2016, 11:30am – 12:15pm

Anecdotal evidence that some students find Turnitin’s originality reporting to be a source of stress or anxiety abounds both in published research (Bensal, Miraflores, & Tan, 2013)and on social media.  A factor can be students misunderstanding the advisory role that Turnitin’s report plays in the assessment process.  Some institutions choose not to allow students to have access to Turnitin reports, often citing the resource challenges of supporting students as a barrier. This webinar will introduce SimilaritySim (Bentley, 2016), an open educational resource which has been developed to address these issues by using a no-tech card game which simulates the processes...more

Thu, Dec 8 2016, 12:15pm – 1:00pm

A number of drivers both practical and pedagogical have been moving our University towards electronic submission of coursework and online marking. Schools vary in how far they are along this path towards all online submission and marking. Our Faculty and School Support Team, within Learning Technology, has five Learning Technology Consultants each of whom works with a Faculty. These drivers have been an opportunity for us to approach Schools and work with them on e-submission and online marking. They have made many staff more likely to engage (and sometimes the opposite). We support, train and influence staff who set up...more

Thu, Dec 8 2016, 1:00pm – 2:00pm

ALT will be launching its next strategy, for 2017-2020, in February 2017. Following December’s  update for members , the consultation process on the new strategy is underway, including the symposium on Learning Technology in Higher and Further Education hosted at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in May. ALT’s Operational Committees will meet for a strategy day in October and this year’s Annual Survey will be expanded to include a section on the new strategy. We will be running three lunchtime drop in sessions attended by Trustees and senior staff who will share progress made with the current strategy, listen to your ideas and...more

Thu, Dec 8 2016, 2:00pm – 2:45pm

Certified Membership of ALT (CMALT) is ALT’s peer-based professional accreditation scheme, developed to enable people whose work involves learning technology in any form to: have their experience and capabiliities certified by peers; demonstrate that they are taking a committed and serious approach to their professional development. This session is designed to provide an overview of CMALT and insights into the experience and value of undertaking CMALT. The session will include information, advice and support for both prospective and current candidates, covering the completion of a portfolio and the assessment process. There will be time for questions. Presenters Tracey Duffy, CMALT (University...more

Thu, Dec 8 2016, 2:45pm – 3:30pm

Since 1961, Sanako have been providing technological solutions to support the language learning process in a global capacity. Sanako Study 1200 is powerful, transformative, multimodal language learning software with multiple affordances enabling tutor led sessions, classroom management, differentiated digital language learning experiences, autonomous learning, opportunities for both individual and group language learning, translation and interpreting. The software provides a technological platform for traditional methods and approaches to language learning, such as model imitation, role play, and gap fill activities. There are various digital iterations of the software. Sanako Study 1200 is used for the purposes of translation and interpreting. Sanako...more

Thu, Dec 8 2016, 3:30pm – 4:15pm

This meeting of the ALT Wales group will be focusing on committee roles and group strategy going forward. Come along if you’re located in or near Wales and would like to find out more. All welcome.more

Thu, Dec 8 2016, 4:15pm – 5:00pm

OK, so 2016 hasn’t been the best of years. However our best hope for a better future, one that is inclusive and fair and provides education and opportunities for all is available to us through open practice. This party themed session will bring good cheer, good company and great networking opportunities for all. There will be many knowledgeable party guests to tell of their travels and share their reflections on the past year. So put on your party clothes, bring along a friend and join us for the best fun and games around. Virtual refreshments will be provided as will...more