1. Conference Round-up Blayn Parkinson
ALT-C 2016
Conference Round-up
Blayn Parkinson

2. Connect, Collaborate and Create
Conference Theme
Connect, Collaborate and Create
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.

3. Learning Analytics
Learning analytics: At the intersections between student support, privacy, agency and institutional survival 
What can we learn from learning analytics? A case study based on an analysis of student use of video recordings
Improving lecturer and learner success through the application of learning analytics
Mystic runes or marvellous medicine: reconnecting ‘Learning Analytics’ with learners
Mining Years of Student Data to Provide Visibility of Institutional Performance
Using learning analytics to shape student success
Learning Analytics including evaluation of data was by for the most prolific presentation topic.

4. Keynote: Josie Fraser Josie Fraser: In the Valley of the Trolls
Josie Fraser is a UK-based Social and Educational Technologist. She has worked with government, schools, further education providers and universities, promoting and developing the effective and innovative use of ICT and e-learning policy and practice in the UK and internationally. Working across the broad field of educational technology, she is primarily interested in digital literacy and open education, and in the ways in which social technologies can be used to support learning, organisational change and community development.
Since 2010, she has lead on technology for Leicester City Council’s £340million Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Programme. She is responsible for setting, promoting and delivering an agenda for educational transformation in relation to the use of technology within schools. She is a Trustee of Wikimedia UK, and is currently also producing the new Government Equalities Office funded national cyberbullying guidance, on behalf of Childnet International.
Josie Fraser: In the Valley of the Trolls
@josiefraser and josiefraser.com.

5. Keynote: Josie Fraser Josie Fraser: In the Valley of the Trolls
Josie Fraser is a UK-based Social and Educational Technologist. She has worked with government, schools, further education providers and universities, promoting and developing the effective and innovative use of ICT and e-learning policy and practice in the UK and internationally. Working across the broad field of educational technology, she is primarily interested in digital literacy and open education, and in the ways in which social technologies can be used to support learning, organisational change and community development.
Since 2010, she has lead on technology for Leicester City Council’s £340million Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Programme. She is responsible for setting, promoting and delivering an agenda for educational transformation in relation to the use of technology within schools. She is a Trustee of Wikimedia UK, and is currently also producing the new Government Equalities Office funded national cyberbullying guidance, on behalf of Childnet International.
Josie Fraser: In the Valley of the Trolls
@josiefraser and josiefraser.com.

6. Keynote: Ian Livingstone
Ian Livingstone CBE:
Code Create Collaborate
Ian co-founded iconic games company Games Workshop, launching Dungeons & Dragons in Europe, and also co-authored the multi-million selling Fighting Fantasy gamebook series. When serving as Executive Chairman at Eidos, he launched global video games franchises including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He co-authored the influential Livingstone-Hope Next Gen review published by NESTA in 2011, working with government to introduce the new Computing curriculum in schools in His current roles include Chairman of Playdemic, Chairman of Midoki and Chairman of Sumo-Digital. He has been awarded a BAFTA Special Award and a CBE in the 2013 New Year Honours list. He is Founder and Chairman of the Livingstone Foundation. You can find Ian on Twitter

7. Keynote: Ian Livingstone
Ian Livingstone CBE:
Code Create Collaborate
Ian co-founded iconic games company Games Workshop, launching Dungeons & Dragons in Europe, and also co-authored the multi-million selling Fighting Fantasy gamebook series. When serving as Executive Chairman at Eidos, he launched global video games franchises including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He co-authored the influential Livingstone-Hope Next Gen review published by NESTA in 2011, working with government to introduce the new Computing curriculum in schools in His current roles include Chairman of Playdemic, Chairman of Midoki and Chairman of Sumo-Digital. He has been awarded a BAFTA Special Award and a CBE in the 2013 New Year Honours list. He is Founder and Chairman of the Livingstone Foundation. You can find Ian on Twitter

8. Keynote: Ian Livingstone
Ian Livingstone CBE:
Code Create Collaborate
Ian co-founded iconic games company Games Workshop, launching Dungeons & Dragons in Europe, and also co-authored the multi-million selling Fighting Fantasy gamebook series. When serving as Executive Chairman at Eidos, he launched global video games franchises including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He co-authored the influential Livingstone-Hope Next Gen review published by NESTA in 2011, working with government to introduce the new Computing curriculum in schools in His current roles include Chairman of Playdemic, Chairman of Midoki and Chairman of Sumo-Digital. He has been awarded a BAFTA Special Award and a CBE in the 2013 New Year Honours list. He is Founder and Chairman of the Livingstone Foundation. You can find Ian on Twitter

9. Keynote: Ian Livingstone
Ian Livingstone CBE:
Code Create Collaborate
Founded Domark games company which later merged to become Edios

10. Keynote: Ian Livingstone
Ian Livingstone CBE:
Code Create Collaborate
Founded Domark games company which later merged to become Edios

11. Keynote: Ian Livingstone
Co-authored the Next Gen review published by NESTA in 2011
In the Wired 100 list for 2012, he was ranked the 16th most influential person in the UK’s digital economy.
Contributed to the revamped Computing curriculum
Opens 2 Free schools aimed at plugging the gaps in maths and science education
Founder of The Livingstone Foundation
Ambassador for the Gaming charity
Chairman of Playdemic Ltd, Chairman of Midoki Ltd, Chairman of PlayMob Ltd, Chair of Skillset’s Video Games Council, Chair Next Gen Skills Committee, Vice Chair of UKIE, Member of the Creative Industries Council, Trustee of GamesAid and an Adviser to the British Council.
Ian Livingstone CBE:
Code Create Collaborate
Generation Z are the connected generation, living in an age of high-tech communications, technology-driven lifestyles and prolific use of social media. How do we reach them? How do we teach them? Ian will give a visual account of his learnings from 40 years in the games industry, starting as an entrepreneur in the 1970s when setting up Games Workshop, writing the multi-million selling Fighting Fantasy gamebooks series, and launching Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He will talk about the Power of Play in learning, and the importance of having Computing on the National Curriculum to promote creativity, computational thinking and problem solving – meta skills for the digital age.

12. Micro-Learning
Manchester Metropolitan University 1minutecpd.co.uk Cork Institute of Technology telu.me
#1minuteCPD
It was noticeable that there were a higher number of presentations on staff development and training (as apposed to Student focused). The idea of digital literacies is now being looked at in relation to staff particularly the engagement of busy academic in training.
Micro-Learning is an approach to training where small focused blocks to training and development are released on a much more common (and regular) schedule.

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