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ALT Annual Conference 2016: Connect, Collaborate, Create
Edinburgh
06.09.2016
The conference provides an international platform for Learning Technology research, practice and policy work from across sectors.The themes for the conference are:Connecting data and analytics to enhance learning and teaching: exploring possibilities and making links.Collaboration and innovation in the open: taking risks, sharing lessons and the importance of open practice.Creating new learning, teaching and assessment opportunities: play, experiment, discover, embed to enhance learner experiences.Also, the:Wildcard: Learning Technology is everywhere… you are free to contribute any aspect of your research, practice or policy work.The conference will be chaired by Professor Nicola Whitton, who leads the Professional Learning Research Group at the Education and Social Research...

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Understanding the essence(s) of portfolio based learning. A collaborative international seminar, the University of Edinburgh, 6-8 June 2016
Edinburgh
06.06.2016
This intentionally global Seminar, the first jointly organised by the Centre for Recording Achievement (UK) and the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (USA), will take place in the wonderful setting of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. One of the world’s leading Universities,  Edinburgh was an intellectual cradle for the Age of Enlightenment and can boast amongst its many famous alumni signatories of the US declaration of independence, Charles Darwin, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania.The seminar will provide a blended format, a purposeful mix of whole event working within a colloquium setting and conventional workshops and seminars grouped by themes.  It will provide opportunities for:The...

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7th Open Educational Resources Conference, OER16: Open Culture
Edinburgh
19.04.2016
The vision for the conference is to focus on the value proposition of embedding open culture in the context of institutional strategies for learning, teaching and research. The conference will be chaired by Melissa Highton, Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services at the University of Edinburgh, and Lorna Campbell, OER Liaison at the University of Edinburgh and EDINA Digital Education Manager.OER16 will focus on:   The strategic advantage of open and creating a culture of openness.   Converging and competing cultures of open knowledge, open source, open content, open practice, open data and open access.   Hacking, making and sharing.   The reputational challenges of openwashing.   Openness and...

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