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Participation data for the ocTEL (open course in Technology-Enhanced Learning) in 2013
No full textThe open course in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ocTEL) (http://octel.alt.ac.uk) was developed in 2012/2013 and first delivered from 2013-04-04 to 2013-06-21. This data includes
- metadata and content for posts on the ocTEL forums
- metadata and content for posts on blogs, social networks (excluding Twitter), shared bookmarking systems identified (by tag or other means) as related to ocTEL
- metadata and content for Twitter tweets identified (by tag) as related to ocTEL
- participation data for ocTEL webinar
Changing the Learning Landscape
Get PDFChanging the Learning Landscape is about enabling higher education institutions in England, including colleges of further education providing higher education, to bring about change in their strategic approaches to technology in learning and teaching. This project is led by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education in partnership with ALT, Higher Education Academy, JISC and the National Union of Students. All five
partners were involved as a team in authoring this publication
Developing Digital Literacies pre-conference webinar
No full textDigital literacy is an idea whose time seems to have come, judging from the number of projects and institutional strategies under development and from the language of governments, the media and social analysts. But how has 'digital literacy' shifted thinking about learning technology, and what has actually changed as a result? This webinar will look at some of the long-term trends behind the digital literacies agenda, with reference to outcomes from the JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme and beyond. It is also an opportunity to tune up for debates at altc2013, where digital literacy issues will be prominent in themes such as 'it's all about the learner', 'in the open' and 'global learning cultures'
Introducing the Maths Apps index. Part of the maths4us initiative. Presentations
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Jisc Digital Literacy Webinar: Multimodal Profusion in the Massive Open Online Course
No full textRecording of webinar in Blackboard Collaborat
Academic libraries and the OER movement: the need for awareness, understanding, and collaboration
No full textThe Transition to...Open Access
Get PDFThis report describes and draws conclusions from the transition of the Association for Learning Technology’s journal Research in Learning Technology from toll-access to Open Access, and from being published by one of the "big five" commercial publishers to being published by a specialist Open Access publisher. The focus of the report is on what happened in the run-up to and after the transition, rather than on the process of deciding to switch between publishing models, which is covered in in ALT's 2011 report "Journal tendering for societies: a brief guide" - http://repository.alt.ac.uk/887/
Introducing the Maths Apps index. Part of the maths4us initiative
No full textThis webinar introduces the Maths Apps index, developed as part of the maths4us initiative led by Martin Hawksey, Jisc CETIS, and Maren Deepwell, ALT.
The webinar is going to focus on the development of the site, which builds on the Community-led Evaluation and Dissemination of Support Resources pilot which was completed in 2012 and show participants how the index works. Partners from across the maths4us initiative will also be attending.
Maths Apps index
ALT, together with partners, has led on the development this index of apps for maths as part of the maths4us initiative. You can access and contribute to the Maths Apps index online.
Apps, as we define them for this initiative, include a large number of online tools such as calculators or currency converters to apps that you can download to a mobile device or desktop computer. There are many maths apps that you can download onto your mobile phone for example to help with tasks such as budgeting to others that can provide scientific calculators or learn how to use data and charts