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Welcome and Orientation Type: Webinar
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
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Recognising Prior Learning with an online e-portfolio assessment tool & an open, online RPL assessor skills course [70] Type: Webinar Authors: Gavin Clinch
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
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Peer Note Banks [99] Type: Edit-a-thon & Wildcard Authors: Mark Shand
Tue, Dec 6 2016, 10:00am – 11:30am “As a student you will find yourself making and referring to notes during or after lectures, seminars, reading and other activities. Peer note banks are intended to encourage the communal creation, discussion and enhancement of notes generated by sessions and lectures. Individuals are able to create or upload notes – as well as comment and add to the notes of their peers. “By taking part we hope that your notes build and become richer as you work together to develop understanding and question your learning.” Going ahead with this project I’m facing technical, aesthetic, pedagogical and cultural challenges in the...more
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iLead by Example [81] Type: Webinar Authors: Ralph Lowerson
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
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The rounded self – exploring how digital technology can be used to help student’s present soft-skills [86] Type: Webinar Authors: Daniel Scott
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
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Social Learning Networks: What, Why and Why? [107] Type: Webinar Authors: Anthony Ash
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
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#101creativeideas Challenge [75] Type: Edit-a-thon & Wildcard Authors: Eleanor Hannan, and Chrissi Nerantzi
Tue, Dec 6 2016, 1:30pm – 3:00pm #101creativeideas is an OER project that aims to curate and share ideas for fostering creative learning and teaching in Higher Education. Practitioners from across the world have started contributing their ideas to add to this valuable resource for the wider academic community. We would like to open this project up to the ALT community and invite colleagues to contribute their ideas around fostering creative learning and teaching with digital technologies. Our challenge to you is: Share your ideas for creative digital learning and teaching experiences. Generate ideas with others via Twitter using #101creativeideas hashtag. Contribute as many ideas as you...more
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Construals as Objects-to-Converse-With: Making the Strange Familiar and the Familiar Strange [94] Type: Webinar Authors: Meurig Beynon, and Hamish Macleod
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
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Pre-entry module design: preparing incoming students for HE study (with a smidgeon of play) [74] Type: Webinar Authors: Fiona MacNeill
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
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Thinking spaces: Mahara as a domain of your own. [85] Type: Webinar Authors: Teresa MacKinnon
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
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Student engagement: creation of online materials [91] Type: Webinar Authors: Clare Thomson
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
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UniCam - A scalable, modular, affordable way to capture video in the classroom [69] Type: Webinar Authors: Mark Glynn, Ger Cannon, Patrick Doyle, Justin Doyle, and Keith Hickey
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
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