Alt-C themes

The growth and spread of current e-learning research and development has led to settled and well established areas of knowledge and expertise in a variety of domains as well as a number of unexplored or undeveloped areas. This year's conference aims to focus on the challenges and opportunities presented by these frontiers and in particular to explore:

• How we cross the borders between domains;
• Where the boundaries of knowledge and expertise lie;
• Which groups or sectors can effect migration towards new frontiers and outposts as well as cross-fertilisation.

We invite papers and abstracts for these under the following 5 themes:

• Design and development;
• Quality and standards;
• Architectures and infrastructures;
• Implementation (including staff and organisational development);
• Collaboration (including cross-sectoral partnerships).

10 Questions for writing a proposal

The "Writing for Academic Journals" book has these questions to ask when wanting to write a proposal for a paper.

1. This work needed to be done because ... 25 words
2. Those who will benefit from this include ... 25 words
3. What I did was ... 25 words
4. How I did that was by ... 25 words
5. When I did that what happened was ...50 words
6. I worked out what that meant by ... 50 words
7. I did what I set out to do by the extent that ...25 words
8. The implications for research are ...25 words
9. The implications for practice are ... 25 words
10. What still needs to be done is ... 25 words

If we substitute the "I" for the "project" it might work.