Now in its fourth year, the ALT Online Winter Conference is back to showcase some of the best Learning Technology from ALT Members from across sectors. The conference is open to all and free to attend, but we invite you to make a donation if you can, to help support the work we do.
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Tue, Dec 12 2017, 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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Tue, Dec 12 2017, 10:00am – 11:00am Session proposed by: Elaine Topham Creating and maintaining an effective staff development strategy to increase digital literacy across the workforce can be a challenging task, but at the Grimsby Institute the Level Up process has had great success with both teaching and support staff. In just over 12 months approximately 60% of the staff have completed or engaged with the Level Up process, with over 10% of staff achieving their Gold standard. This has had benefits both in classroom delivery and assessment methods used, but also in workforce efficiency and streamlined processes. We have adopted an open culture of developmental...more Tue, Dec 12 2017, 10:00am – 11:00am Session proposed by: Pete Sparkes The ‘Great Sussex Podblast’ was an event created and facilitated by Pete Sparkes, George Robinson and Tab Betts from Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at the University of Sussex. A ‘Podblast’ is our spin on the “book-sprint” format, which traditionally involves a group of people working intensively as a team over a short period of time to create a book; only this time, participants would be tasked with producing a series of podcast episodes instead of book chapters. The event formed part of the university’s’ Digital Discovery Week; a programme of free sessions designed to the...more Type: Edit-a-thon & Wildcard Chair: Nkaepe Olaniyi Tue, Dec 12 2017, 10:00am – 11:00am Session proposed by: Jenni Hayman In this 60-minute editing session, you will be invited to craft a blog post, video, podcast, illustration, or creative storytelling solution of your choice to tell a story about how you came to be involved in the open (education, access, data, source, other?) movement. Facilitators can add you directly to the 101OpenStories.org WordPress site to build a post, or you can work in the space of your choice (Google Docs, YouTube, Blog site, etc.). Once work is complete, please share a link with the facilitators, or use the Twitter hashtag #101OpenStories to celebrate! Stories will...more |
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Tue, Dec 12 2017, 11:00am – 12:00pm Session proposed by: Fiona McCloy Flipped learning is the reversal of traditional teaching; where students receive learning materials outside class, allowing higher cognitive learning to take place in the classroom. Research shows the potential benefits of flipped learning in higher education; in terms of improved student and practitioner motivation and improved student attendance and performance (Hamdan et al., 2013). There is much interest in flipped learning in higher education, due to the potential educational gains and the learning technology now readily available to enable it. At Ulster University, the Office for Digital Learning delivered two Flipping The Classroom webinars to...more Type: Webinar Chair: Richard Beggs Tue, Dec 12 2017, 11:00am – 12:00pm Session proposed by: Anne Hole Digital skills are vital for individuals, institutions and society as a whole – but developing the digital capabilities of staff and students can be challenging. This webinar will outline and evaluate some approaches that have been used by the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team at the University of Sussex to develop the digital skills of staff and students. I will explain why ‘digital productivity’ is an important aspect of digital skills development and outline a range of approaches and resources which have been developed to address this area, including workshops, blog posts and an A-Z...more Tue, Dec 12 2017, 11:00am – 12:00pm Session proposed by: Sarah Sherman Tweetchat hashtag: #UCISAVLE (facilitated by @UCISA_DEG) The development and use of VLE minimum standards polarises opinion across the UK education sector. Practice varies considerably with some standards highly prescriptive regarding the structure of sites and expected use by staff. Other approaches are more devolved, allowing adaptation to suit disciplinary needs and practices. Irrespective of this position, minimum standards continues to be a hot topic of debate within and across universities and colleges. This tweetchat will be facilitated by members of the UCISA Digital Education Group. It seeks to draw upon experiences of VLE minimum standards implementations from...more |
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Type: Webinar Chair: Nkaepe Olaniyi Tue, Dec 12 2017, 12:00pm – 1:00pm Session proposed by: Clare Thomson PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows. David Byrne PowerPoint was born in the late nineteen eighties in order that users could make best use of the graphical interface of personal computers. Since then it has become one of the most ubiquitous software packages in the world and is synonymous with the word ‘presentation’, despite the availability of many alternative packages. However, nearly forty years later it is much maligned as generating boring bullet points, slides crammed...more Type: Webinar Chair: Richard Beggs Tue, Dec 12 2017, 12:00pm – 1:00pm Session proposed by: Nicholas Murgatroyd An increasing level of assessment in HE today is carried out through the use of e-portfolios such as Pebblepad or Mahala. However, the nature of most of these portfolios is that students submit completed work and this offers little chance for students to receive and react to developmental feedback. Over the last three years, the English Language Teaching Centre at the University of Sheffield has developed a system based around cloud documents and automation tools that allows teachers and students on the pre-sessional English course to interact on documents as they’re in progress, promoting a...more Tue, Dec 12 2017, 12:00pm – 1:00pm Tweetchat hashtags: #altc #altcshowcase This is an informal Twitter showcase of the #altc blog – celebrating editors and contributors who have helped make this the blogs biggest and best year yet. Join in #altc to discover what’s been happening on the blog this year. Find out more We publish the #altc blog, formerly the ALT Newsletter, on a continuous basis. It contains a wide range of posts and articles, including news, opinion pieces, project updates, case studies, book reviews, ‘a week in the life’ summaries of the work of people in the Learning Technology field. Meet the Editorial Team Editor...more Type: Edit-a-thon & Wildcard Chair: Maren Deepwell Tue, Dec 12 2017, 12:00pm – 1:00pm Session proposed by: Anders Krohn Based on the work by ALT CEO Maren Deepwell and Aula CEO Anders Krohn this edit-a-thon (1) presents Maren’s, Anders’, and the ALT community’s work on creating a guide for learning technologists on ‘How and why to engage with startups’ and (2) aims to extend the existing work and derive new working questions, feedback and case studies. How to take part in this edit-a-thon We will be running a webinar session for provide a short introduction to the work and where we are at. We then invite participants to work collaboratively on an open Google...more |
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Type: Webinar Chair: Helen Whitehead Tue, Dec 12 2017, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Session proposed by: Georgina Blakeley This session draws on over ten years of experience of designing Level 1 introductory modules for Social Science students at the Open University. Approximately 40% of OU students starting Social Science modules have low prior educational qualifications: this statistic makes essential an innovative teaching support architecture to develop student academic and learning skills. Drawing on this ten-year experience has shown that the blend of teaching materials is crucial to support students in developing study skills and in learning how to become social scientists. This blend includes printed materials, online activities, audio and visual materials and...more Tue, Dec 12 2017, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Session proposed by: Alice La Rooy At Brunel University London we have been testing the feasibility of digital written exams for the past two years. The approach we have taken is a “Bring your own device” (BYOD) model where students bring their own laptops to the examination venue. Following a successful pilot we are now looking to expand the number of digital exams. This session will be an opportunity for us to share our experiences with colleagues across the sector. More information on our project can be found on this ALT blog post https://altc.alt.ac.uk/blog/2017/10/byod-digital-exams-at-brunel-university/more Tue, Dec 12 2017, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Session proposed by: Shaiffadzillah Omarali Tweetchat hashtag: #consolesDGBL_ALT (facilitated by @shaiomarali ) Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot. These are representatives of iconic video game characters who for many years have been embraced by children and adults alike, allowing players to escape reality and interact with digital worlds. The increasing acceptance of digital games-based learning and the gamification of lessons have also popularised the use of educational mobile apps such as Scribblenauts and Endless Alphabet and computer-based virtual worlds such as Minecraft and Secondlife. However, console based video games have been less influential in the drive towards gamification, most likely...more |
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Type: Webinar Chair: Tom Palmer Tue, Dec 12 2017, 3:00pm – 4:00pm Session proposed by: Stephen Andrade At UWS, within the school of Health, Nursing and Midwifery, a pilot project has been running to explore and evaluate a hands-on interactive workshop incorporating Virtual Reality (VR) technology to enhance the teaching and learning experience. Through the use of immersive VR simulations that enables nursing students to view different sensory processing experiences. The session was designed to help students to better empathise with individuals who have sensory differences and to ultimately enable them to be more effective, person-centred practitioners. The webinar will consist of a short overview of what sensory processing is and how...more Tue, Dec 12 2017, 3:00pm – 4:00pm Session proposed by: Ros Walker The Equality Act (2010) states that we must make ‘reasonable adjustments’ to enable all students to participate fully in their courses. For deaf/Deaf students this often means that videos should be captioned (or transcripts) provided. Captions also assist many other students, such as international students and dyslexic students. Since the introduction of lecture capture at the University of Huddersfield in September 2016, we have been looking at a variety of options for closed captions, for both our captured lectures and for other video-based materials. We are exploring a variety of ways of captioning videos and...more Tue, Dec 12 2017, 3:00pm – 4:00pm Session proposed by: John Couperthwaite Tweetchat hashtags: #learninganalytics #altc (facilitated by @johncoup) Whether we like it or not, analytics are deeply integrated into our education systems, shaping policy and investment, whilst also influencing student recruitment, progression and employment. For educators, it presents a challenge to make sense of personal feedback in class, from assessment scores, evaluation data, and aggregated usage data. In this Tweetchat, we want to explore what educators need for analytics: what data would be most useful, when should it be provided, and how could it be made available. Questions to be asked at intervals through the session include: Q1. How...more Type: Edit-a-thon & Wildcard Chair: Richard Price Tue, Dec 12 2017, 3:00pm – 4:00pm Session proposed by: Laura Hollinshead This Edit-a-thon session will look at gathering together resources to contribute to a Digital Capability Toolkit designed to support students, staff and external partners (like employers, international collaborative partners and others) to find resources to develop their digital capabilities. The University of Derby has created an open WordPress site where these resources will be hosted and categorised based on the 6 elements of digital capability identified by Jisc (2015). It is hoped that once students, staff and external partners have reflected upon their digital capabilities they will then be able to find resources to develop...more |
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Type: Webinar Chair: John Couperthwaite Tue, Dec 12 2017, 4:00pm – 5:00pm Session proposed by: Chris Edwards Moves in higher education to provide personalised learning for students increase the importance of gaining and maintaining an understanding of the student experience. For some institutions, this increase in complexity may stretch current systems and data structures. The complexity is amplified where multiple start dates are offered to improve the personalisation of study. The Open University has, over the years, continued to develop its Supported Open Learning (SOL) methods and as an institution is now prioritising Personalised Open Learning (POL). This increases the importance of accessible detailed pathway information. We describe the development of one...more Tue, Dec 12 2017, 4:00pm – 5:00pm Session proposed by: Philip Lewis At SysMIC.ac.uk we run an eLearning CPD module for postgraduate researchers in the biosciences. Over six months students work through twelve sessions of training learning maths and computing techniques that can be applied to their work. The course is run by a consortium of member institutions (UCL, Birkbeck College, The Open University, Univeristy of Edinburgh). Over the last 5 years over 1200 participants have signed up to the module with an estimated 5000 hours of learning completed. A key strategy to record evidence of achievement, and to monitor engagement is through incorporating survey activities in...more Tue, Dec 12 2017, 4:00pm – 5:00pm Session proposed by: Teresa MacKinnon Tweetchat hashtags: #oep #altc (facilitated by @warwicklanguage and @vivienrolfe) At a time when social media is playing an important role in mediating opportunities for professional development, dissemination of practice and international, intra-institutional collaboration, this tweet chat will share examples of what it means to support learning and collaborate in the open. An #openedsig blog post will set the scene, describing the current discussions taking place in the open education community about open educational practices and open pedagogies. The terms are currently a focus for discussion in the international open education community. The chat will invite participants to share...more |
Wed, Dec 13 2017, 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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Type: Webinar Chair: Dario van Gammeren Wed, Dec 13 2017, 10:00am – 11:00am Session proposed by: Jessica Gramp At UCL, we moved from using WebCT in 2008, with a mere 400 courses, to a Moodle environment with over 7,000 courses in 2017, covering every taught module and programme. Such a large environment is impossible for a team of only tens of staff to support single-handedly. Without the support of staff in particular roles, we would not have reached this target. University College London (UCL) is a large, research-intensive UK university, with a diverse and independent department structure. After many years, Moodle is now firmly entrenched in the UCL teaching culture. This is the...more Type: Webinar Chair: Susan Greig Wed, Dec 13 2017, 10:00am – 11:00am Session proposed by: Susan Greig This is a repeat of the presentation at ALT C 17 and will be co-presented by Sarah Sherman In this presentation, we will share the approaches and experiences of supporting a cohort of staff through CMALT accreditation currently in place at two different organisations (a consortium of six HE institutions in England and a large university in Scotland). We will demonstrate how an institutional cohort offers further benefits since it builds a network of support through regular meetings and activities, providing encouragement and dedicated time to write and reflect. The cohort builds a network of...more Wed, Dec 13 2017, 10:00am – 11:00am Session proposed by: Amanda Pate Tweetchat hashtags: #beyonddigitalnatives #altc (facilitated by @acgpate) The use of technology to enhance learning and deliver teaching has been buoyed by digital pioneers and enthusiasts and has been given momentum through changes in policy at a strategic level, but for many working in learning and teaching it can still be a case of preaching to the converted. For those of us working in learning technology, the challenge can be how do we go beyond the foundations laid by those who are willing and able to try to institute change across the board when it comes to embedding technology...more Type: Edit-a-thon & Wildcard Chair: Dustin Hosseini Wed, Dec 13 2017, 10:00am – 11:00am Session proposed by: Katie Stripe Mission To enable teachers to make informed decisions about content delivery in a world where technology is an expectation in most, if not all, aspects of life. We aim to build a community site which facilitates knowledge sharing, empowers innovation and provides support throughout the educational design and delivery process. Structure: a framework to support networking and shared good practice Content: community generated ideas which enable users to make informed choices Community: a network of users and contributors representing major educational stakeholders Build We will create a site including content from two streams; teaching and...more |
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Type: Webinar Chair: Sarah Williams Wed, Dec 13 2017, 11:00am – 12:00pm Session proposed by: Shailey Minocha Virtual reality in education and for employability Shailey Minocha and Ana-Despina Tudor Virtual reality is becoming pervasive in several domains – in arts and film-making, for environmental causes, in medical education, in disaster management training, in sports broadcasting, in entertainment, and in supporting patients with dementia. An awareness of virtual reality technology and its integration in curriculum design will provide and enhance employability skills for current and future workplaces. In this webinar, we will describe the evolution of virtual reality technologies and our research in 3D virtual worlds, 3D virtual environments developed in Unity 3D,...more Type: Webinar Chair: Rachel Challen Wed, Dec 13 2017, 11:00am – 12:00pm Session proposed by: Kelly Terrell This webinar will provide an update on works which have been taking place over the past 12 months on EdShare at the University of Southampton. EdShare (http://www.eprints.org/edshare) was created in 2009 as part of a Jisc funded institutional exemplars research project and received a major upgrade in late 2015 to ensure its future sustainability. EdShare is running behind a number of well established educational resources sites including edShare@GCU, EdShare Southampton, eShare, Humbox, LanguageBox and with two further institutional instances due to launch soon. Whilst open educational resources (OERs) is at the forefront of the EdShare...more |
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Type: Webinar Chair: Susan Greig Wed, Dec 13 2017, 12:00pm – 1:00pm Session proposed by: Lisa Donaldson This webinar will introduce participants to the concept of an ‘unconference’ – a participant driven conference that aims to maximise professional learning and collaboration. The benefits of this high energy and flexible approach in the field of educational technology will be outlined and excepts from prior unconferences will be presented. The webinar will then discuss the planning undertaken for a forthcoming eportfolio unconference and the rationale for this type of approach. The rules and facilitation styles for an effective and productive unconference will also be shared. The upcoming eportfolio unconference will feature a number of...more Wed, Dec 13 2017, 12:00pm – 1:00pm Session proposed by: Teresa MacKinnon (Open Ed SIG event) Central to Open Educational Practice is a willingness to share our work with others. How we interpret that and put our sharing into practice will vary as it involves a range of very individual personal decisions. Open Educational Practice is “complex, personal, contextual and continually negotiated” according to Cronin’s research. This webinar will provide examples of existing sharing spaces and encourage a discussion of current practice. We would like you to join us, talk about the online spaces you currently use and discuss the rationale for the decisions you make. This...more Wed, Dec 13 2017, 12:00pm – 1:00pm Tweetchat hashtags: #altc #CMALT CMALT, our Certified Membership scheme, is a peer-based professional accreditation scheme developed by ALT to enable people whose work involves learning technology to have their experience and capabilities certified by peers and demonstrate that they are taking a committed and serious approach to their professional development. ALT is looking to expand CMALT from one level to three levels, including one new pathway for early career professionals and those for whom it is a smaller part of their role another new pathway for professionals whose role includes management/leadership or research focus This Twitter chat will be an...more Type: Edit-a-thon & Wildcard Chair: Adam Elce Wed, Dec 13 2017, 12:00pm – 1:00pm Session proposed by: Martin Hawksey This session has been organised by the ALT Scotland Members Group This session is an opportunity to discuss and discover what is going on with VLEs in Scotland. The session will begin with updates from invited speakers who will briefly share their recent experiences which will be followed by an open discussion. On the panel we have: Louise Jones, Independent Consultant, providing an overview of developments in GLOW for the Scottish schools sector; Jan Low and Joy Howat from Dundee and Angus College with feedback on their upgrade to Moodle 3.3; Mary McCulloch from the...more |
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Type: Webinar Chair: Richard Price Wed, Dec 13 2017, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Session proposed by: Jennifer Dettmer Historically, the University of Bedfordshire Learning Development Team has operated a traditional model of academic support comprising writing, maths and study skills. This primarily included drop-in, targeted workshops and 1:1 appointments. A repository of online study skills guides and learning materials was also provided. For the last five years, the University of Bedfordshire has operated campuses located in Luton, Bedford, Aylesbury and Milton Keynes. However, over the last eighteen months, Study Hubs have been introduced in London and a further hub is planned in Birmingham. Although face-to-face support is offered at each campus and hub,...more Type: Webinar Chair: Susan Greig Wed, Dec 13 2017, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Session proposed by: Sarah Williams South Cheshire College / West Cheshire College is a recently merged FE College in North West England. The webinar will focus on the use of Class Notebook to provide a collaborative space for teaching and learning. Case study examples will be provided on the use of Class Notebook by both FE provision (Deaf Studies, Level 3 Electrical Installation, Level 3 Health Science) and an HE in FE course (PgCE/CertEd). Each Class Notebook has a collaborative space that teachers and all students can view, edit and contribute to. Each learner has their own section in the...more Type: Edit-a-thon & Wildcard Chair: Sarah Huskinson Wed, Dec 13 2017, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Session proposed by: Helen Beetham The Student Digital Experience Tracker is a survey and student engagement process designed to help organisations learn more about the experience of their digital learners. Run by Jisc, the Student digital experience tracker has over 140 universities and major colleges signed up to participate this year. The Student digital experience tracker allows organisations to: gather evidence from learners about their digital experience, and track changes over time make better informed decisions about the digital environment, digital strategy, and digital investments benchmark against others in their sector plan further research, data gathering and student engagement around digital...more |
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Type: Webinar Chair: Sandra Huskinson Wed, Dec 13 2017, 3:00pm – 4:00pm Session proposed by: Megan Kime This is a work in progress presentation of a new induction course developed to support students on online distance learning (ODL) Masters degree programmes at the University of Leeds. The presentation will be led by Dr Megan Kime, Head of ODL Student Education, and Chris Thompson, Course Design Manager. The aim of this session is to open up discussion on the processes and challenges of re-use in digital learning, as the project moves on its next phase. Pathways to Success is a cross-service collaborative project developed in partnership with the University of Leeds Digital Education...more Type: Edit-a-thon & Wildcard Chair: Dustin Hosseini Wed, Dec 13 2017, 3:00pm – 4:00pm Session proposed by: Santanu Vasant In this extended workshop I will be using Twitter, with the hashtag #altcpedls (altc pedagogy of learning spaces) and Padlet (http://www.padlet.com). I will asking a series of questions to participants of whether they face pedagogical challenges to the delivery of their academic practice in new and existing learning spaces. The aim of the tweetchat is to explore the attitudes and practices of participants and the extent to which they use and shape their academic practice with learning spaces in mind. In addition, I want explore the key motivators and barriers in developing pedagogical repertoires in...more |
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Wed, Dec 13 2017, 4:00pm – 5:00pm Session proposed by: Teresa MacKinnon (Open Ed SIG event) A cosy hangout to mark the end of Year of Open 2017 and to look forward to #OER18. Bring your own hot chocolate and marshmallows to roast over our open fire, come and share your experiences of advocating for open. All welcome.more Wed, Dec 13 2017, 4:00pm – 5:00pm Session proposed by: Steven Williams Note: This session will be via Adobe Connect (click ‘Join Webinar‘ to access) This session will offer an opportunity for discussion on effective tools and techniques when delivering webinars. This will draw upon experience of supporting various online sessions and workshops on different platforms. Projects such as designing and delivering staff development, disseminating student engagement techniques in distance learning and organising Teaching & Learning Conversations (TLC) events. This involves assisting colleagues in developing engaging and interactive webinars, appropriate delivery techniques, as well as familiarising presenters with the delivery environment. During the session, we will share our...more Wed, Dec 13 2017, 4:00pm – 5:00pm Session proposed by: Elaine Topham Microsoft OneNote is an incredibly versatile, but underutilised tool and is free for use in education, available on all mobile platforms and can work offline.Add-ins such as Class Notebook and Learning Tools greatly extend the functionality of the software and provide a rich suite of tools for education and accessibility.Class Notebooks also integrate with many systems, such as Canvas LMS, making features such as setting assignments directly from Class Notebook into the LMS a time-saving possibility. Tutors can add documents, links, videos and other content such as Sway presentations into the Content Library for students...more |
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