28 February 2012
Being a membership organisation, the quality of what we can do for our members is often driven by what we can do ourselves to help the broader community of practitioners. This is particularly true with our ALT Newsletter. To this end, we are always receptive to new ideas and constantly on the lookout for new [...]
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27 February 2012
This edition of ALT News includes: The Self Organised Learning Environment (SOLE) School Support Pack by Sugata Mitra, David Leat, Paul Dolan and Emma Crawley Getting the Mix Right Once Again: A Peek into the Interaction Equivalency Theorem and Interaction Design, by Terumi Miyazoe Mobile Publishing with Jutoh by Scott Hennessy A Story of (O)pen, by Amber Thomas [...]
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27 February 2012
This document is designed to support the implementation of Sugata Mitra’s Self Organised Learning Environment (SOLE) into multiple school contexts. It contains ‘whole school’ related information for Head Teachers and senior staff in addition to teaching and learning support for teachers and support staff.
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27 February 2012
The ebook medium is gradually evolving from its text based roots into a multimedia format, as can be seen by the emergence of the International Digital Publishing Forum’s EPUB 3 standard and Apple’s announcement that its iBooks reader supports rich media content. In particular the adoption of interactive HTML5 technologies into the EPUB standard makes [...]
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27 February 2012
It was in the spring of 2006 that I first encountered Terry Anderson’s Getting the Mix Right Again: An Updated and Theoretical Rationale for Interaction (2003), ― I could not get the ideas presented out of my mind. At that time, I was working in Tokyo, Japan, while enrolled in the online Master of Distance [...]
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26 February 2012
Valentine’s Day this year was the tenth anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative. It’s amazing how far the academic community has come in unlocking access to scholarly works. JISC has led significant development to bring this vision to life (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/openaccess ) and the launch of ALT-J as an open journal is timely evidence than [...]
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07 November 2011
Julie Voce provides a round up of the 18th international conference of the Association for Learning Technology, Conference: Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate, held at the University of Leeds, UK, 6-8 September 2011. In July 2011, Stanford University announced that three introductory one-term undergraduate courses would be available free as online distance [...]
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07 November 2011
Honorary Life Membership of ALT for Malcolm Read Members will be pleased to note that at the ALT AGM on 7 September, ALT President Carol Higgison presented Malcolm Read, who is Executive Secretary to JISC, with ALT Honorary Life Membership, in recognition of Malcolm’s outstanding and sustained contribution to the advancement of ALT’s aims for [...]
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07 November 2011
Over 500 delegates attended this year’s ALT conference held at the University of Leeds from 6-8 September. The theme of the conference was ‘Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate’. This year’s report draws on the thoughts of conference attendees made via Twitter or through their blogs.
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07 November 2011
In July 2011, Stanford University announced that three introductory one-term undergraduate courses would be available free as online distance learning courses. Within a matter of weeks, 200,000 people had registered for these courses from nearly 200 countries. Seb Schmoller reflects on his experience thus far as a participant on one of these courses and on the implications for FE and HE.
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07 November 2011
Clayton R. Wright presents a comprehensive set of criteria for evaluating the quality of online courses. Originally developed in 2003, this revised 2011 document is based on the author’s experience since the original publication date and the suggestions of various e-learning professionals.
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07 November 2011
This article identifies the different ways that technology is being applied by UK exam board OCR to benefit the whole process of assessment, from administration to exam results.
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07 November 2011
Systems record how students are using them in their log files. We can use this data to understand their behaviour and to help students to perform better by using it to help them to understand what they are doing. Work in this area is already improving student success rates.
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Why Distribute Documents in MS Word or OpenOffice for an International Audience?
The elements of e-assessment
DIVERSE 2011
The Self Organised Learning Environment (SOLE) School Support Pack
Clayton: Thank you Marko for your comment.
The simple list...
Sophie White: Hi Alex, OCR hasn\'t produced the kind of evaluati...
Marko Teräs: To state the same here as I did in my blog: As a p...
Alex P. Real: Good news, OCR & Cambridge Assessment finally ...
