Some events, a conference, JISC funding news
A number of things from the world of e-learning to draw to your attention:
ALT-C, the annual major e-learning conference in the UK, will be held this year in Nottingham. The theme is “Into something rich and strange” – making sense of the sea-change”. Google and Yahoo will be among those presenting.
If you are thinking of going, please hold off registering until February. We’re joining ALT as an organisational member from February (of which more soon) which will entitle you to a discounted fee.
The call for papers is out, with a deadline of the 15th February. If you are thinking of submitting a paper, and would like some advice, get in touch (elearning@qmul.ac.uk).
See here for details about the conference and here for details about submitting a paper.
JISC has frozen some of its funding calls, in the wake of the recent letter from Peter Mandelson to the Chair of HEFCE. So, if you had an eye on any JISC funding calls (generally on the ‘tech side’ of e-learning), read about the funding postponement here. Not all calls are affected.
The Centre for Distance Education (in the University of London External System) run various workshops about e-learning. Two free lunchtime sessions in Jan/Feb are: The Future of Technology in Education on 19th January, and an ePortfolios ‘Show and Tell’ session on the 16th February.
Details for these aren’t on their website, and I don’t want to paste phone numbers or the contact email address for booking on the open web, but if you email elearning@qmul.ac.uk we’ll send on the details if you might be interested.
Lastly, a plug for our very (co-)own(ed) M25 Learning Technology Group. This informal network of e-learning support professionals from around the region meets a few times a year, and has an email list (and now social network) where you can ask advice, offer ideas and share news. If part of your role is to support e-learning (there are quite a few of us now across QM) I highly recommend that you join up, as it plugs you in to a ready made network. See here to join the JISCmail group or get in touch with Eoin McDonnell here at QM (who co-manages it). There’s a meet coming up in March at City University, and if you support e-learning, you’re very welcome.