This year’s Annual Conference is proudly supported by our sponsors and partners:

Headline Sponsor

Canvas LMS by Instructure

Instructure is an education technology company dedicated to elevating student success,amplifying the power of teaching, and inspiring everyone to learn together. Today the Instructure Learning Platform supports more than 30 million educators and learners around the world.

Learn more about this years headline sponsor here or connect with them on Twitter.

Strategic Sponsor

Wooclap

Wooclap is an interactive platform that maximises the possibility for smartphones and computers to become exceptional learning tools that make learning awesome and effective. It was developed in collaboration with neuroscientists, course technologists, and teachers to maximise information retention and enhance learning during lectures, whether in a classroom or remotely.

There is no app to download, nothing to install: students use a link to connect to the platform on their smartphone, tablet, or computer, and answer questions online or by SMS text.

Wooclap is compatible with all teaching models (traditional, synchronous, asynchronous, distance, hybrid, HyFlex…) and integrates with many tools that teachers use on a daily basis (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Genially, Canvas, Microsoft Teams…). This means they can use Wooclap’s many question-types and features within their existing Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

To get your free trial licence click here!

Session Sponsors

Edina

Noteable is a cloud-based computational notebook service developed by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, that provides access to the most commonly used computational notebooks including Python and R. Notebooks available within Noteable can be accessed directly through your Virtual Learning Environment and come with a large number of libraries and extensions already set up. Noteable also comes with an auto-grading feature enabling teachers to set assignments for a class of learners with defined rules around automated marking of the code that the learner has written.

Open LMS

Open LMS is an all-around eLearning solution provider that leverages open-source software to deliver an effective and engaging learning experience. As the largest commercial provider of eLearning hosting and support services for the open-source Moodle™ learning platform, we help organizations and institutions deliver great learning experiences without complexities. Previously a Blackboard product, Open LMS was acquired by Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG) in March 2020.

Talis Elevate

Talis Elevate is a collaborative annotation tool that builds discussion activity directly into heart of resources used in teaching, spanning text based documents, image based content, audio, video, digitisations, and 3rd party content like YouTube.

Students can engage in different ways; privately, collaboratively, anonymously, emotively, supporting a variety of student preferences to resource usage, lowering barriers to entry for student engagement.

Underpinning all of this, Talis Elevate provides new levels of analytical insight for academics and students, helping academics make informed decisions in real time around their teaching practice, learn more about student interaction, and to identify who may need more support.

Please go to https://talis.com/talis-elevate/ to find out more.

Vevox

Vevox is the award-winning live polling and Q&A app designed to increase student engagement and knowledge retention through interaction. Accessible on any smartphone, tablet or computer,Vevox is a simple to use Student Response System (SRS) for your online, hybrid or face to face classes. Vevox helps educators to gain instant student feedback, test knowledge, increase participation and above all, give every student a voice. Used in 150+ countries by over 1500 businesses and educational institutions, winner of the 2018 Bett Award for higher education and the highest independently rated SRS systemon the market (4.8 out of 5 on Trustpilot.)

Scholarship Sponsor

Turnitin

Turnitin is a global company dedicated to ensuring the integrity ofeducation and meaningfully improving learning outcomes. For more than20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promotehonesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas andassessment types. Our products are used by educational institutions andcertification and licensing programs to uphold integrity and increaselearning performance, and by students and professionals to do their best,original work.

Partners

Open Academia

The Open Access movement has changed the world of publishing forever. As Open Access publishing evolves and gains momentum, traditional publishing houses have a hard time keeping up. The need for author-friendly, flexible and highly configurable systems, has left many publishers in the backwaters. More and more academic societies are now turning to open source technologies to manage digital publishing on their own. And that is where Open Academia comes in.

Open Academia is ALT’s publishing partner for Research in Learning Technology.

Positive Internet Company

The Positive Internet Company (www.positive-internet.com) has been an innovative open-technology company since 1998. Focusing on high-end hosting with second-to-none customer support, we own and operate our own data center near Cambridge, UK with hundreds of our own servers (almost all running Debian). We host and maintain a variety of systems, many of these are fully managed by the Positive technical team. In addition to working with some big and interesting corporations (including major financial organizations and media groups) and household names (British celebrities like Ricky Gervais and Stephen Fry), we host none other than the father of Free Software himself, Richard M. Stallman.