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The ALT-J journal is now open access and all back issues are available here.

This paper summarises the results of the Reflective Learning, Future Thinking research seminar jointly held by ALT, SURF and ILTA at Trinity College Dublin. At this seminar 50 leading researchers from three nations came together to share thoughts about the direction of learning technology development. Summary At the heart of all three discussions we still see concerns about status and valorisation of knowledge, disciplines and roles. Repository discussions touch on quality and gate keeping, portfolio discussions touch on the ownership of identity as a learner, while ubiquitous computing and informal learning touches on fundamental questions of access and learner control.

Keynote and invited speaker sessions from the 2011 ALT Conference, 6-8 September, 2011, Leeds.

Record everything - students use them, learning improves, marks increase. Based on data presented at ALT-C 2011

"In this wonderful little study by Pierre Gorrisen, delivered at the ALT conference, they cleverly combined usage data with some survey and interview data to come to some clear conclusions."

Analysis of MOOC pedagogy in relation to designing a MOOC for Cousera on el-learning and technology by the teachers and researchera associated with the MSc in elearning at the University of Edinburgh.

A long list of edtech related conferences for 2011

 DeFrosting Professional Development: Reconceptualising Teaching using Social Learning Technologies Thomas Cochrane, Vickel NarayanIn this paper we discuss the impact of redesigning a lecturer professional development course with the aim of embedding a community of practice model supported by the use of mobile web 2.0 technologies.

TwapperKeeper could be a community project for NZ. This shows an outcome in the ability to analyse event tweets. ALT-C2011.

Stephen Downes notes from Wenger's keynote at ALT-C 2005

Screencast showing something of how data was aggregated in the ocTEL course.

Looks like a useful set of papers on learning and teaching online - design, tutoring, mobile, communities, assessment, social, etc

Nine evidence-based elearning guides:Tutoring on-line; Web-based course design; Learner acceptance of on-line learning and e-learning; Learning objects and repositories; Learning using mobile and hand-held devices; On-line communities; Technology-supported assessment; Learning environments; Using social software in learning.

Comment on the post digital discussion held alt f-altc including a video summary. This discussion topic is important as we try and figure out how elearning will (is) become(ing) normalised.

Description of a step by step process for running webinars using the Google ecosystem. Pretty organised!