Headline Sponsor
About Vevox
Vevox, the number one rated polling and Q&A platform for student engagement. With over 1500 reviews across Trustpilot, G2, and Capterra, Vevox helps educators gain instant student feedback, test knowledge, increase participation and above all, give every student a voice.
Vevox is used in 150+ countries by over 1500 businesses and educational institutions, winner of the 2018 Bett Award for higher education and is the highest independently rated SRS system on the market.
Easily integrable with your classroom tech, including Microsoft Teams, Zoom, PowerPoint and other technologies, Vevox offers a complete solution to running unmissable online, in-person and hybrid classes.
Website: www.vevox.com/
Twitter @vevoxapp
Conference Theme Sponsors
CANVAS LMS by Instructure – Emerging leadership for a new strategic vision
There has been a big shift in the digital skills and capabilities that we need to develop and recognise in both students and staff: from digital citizenship to critical data literacy and ethical considerations, what does it mean to develop digital fluency?
About CANVAS LMS by Instructure
The Canvas Learning Management Platform is developed and fully supported by Instructure, a software as a service (SaaS) technology company dedicated to education and learning.Canvas delivers an open, extensible learning ecosystem that allows institutions to build a digital learning environment that meets the unique challenges they face. Today we’re the #1 used LMS. Voted #1 by both students and educators. With the highest retention rate, and top-ranked implementation services and Support.The Canvas LMS is open, customisable, reliable, mobile, time-saving and born in the cloud. This is why it continues to be the fastest-growing LMS in the world.
Website: www.instructure.com/en-gb
Twitter: @Canvas_by_Inst
Edina – Developing Digital Fluency
There has been a big shift in the digital skills and capabilities that we need to develop and recognise in both students and staff: from digital citizenship to critical data literacy and ethical considerations, what does it mean to develop digital fluency?
About Edina
EDINA are specialists in developing and delivering digital products including large-scale online services, mobile apps, and digital tools for education. Our expertise includes geospatial and satellite data, computational learning, text, and data mining, e-preservation, and machine learning.We have over twenty years of experience and a proven track record of collaborating on innovative projects and service delivery across the full digital lifecycle; employing an agile, customer-centric approach, to design, develop, test and deploy scalable digital solutions.
Website: edina.ac.uk/
Twitter: @EDINA_Noteable
Open LMS – Digital transformation beyond the crisis
What is your vision for learning, teaching and assessment? This theme is focused on how we are transforming education and training through digital practices in a post-pandemic world.
About Open LMS
Open LMS leverages open-source software to deliver an effective and engaging online learning experience. As the largest commercial provider of hosting and support services for the open-source Moodle™ learning platform, we help organizations and institutions deliver the best learning experiences without complexities.
Website: www.openlms.net/
Twitter: @openLMSteam
McGraw Hill – Co-creation with learners
This theme explores how to use digital technology in partnership with learners to design sustainable approaches that work for everyone. How can we co-create student engagement and enjoyment and make the learning experience more open, inclusive and equitable?
About McGraw Hill
McGraw Hill is a global pioneer in educational content, assessment, training, and platform innovation; and is one of the world’s largest educational companies, with products and services in more than 60 languages and 130 countries.
Website: mheducation.co.uk
Twitter: @mhe_emea
Scholarship Sponsors
About PebblePad
Founded in 2004, PebblePad is an award-winning online learning platform designed to help educators deliver student-centred learning at scale. Combining the powerful features of an ePortfolio with a unique set of assessment capabilities, PebblePad has successfully transformed learning (and improved the student experience!) at institutions across the UK, Australia, and North America; including over 30 of the top-ranked global Universities.
Website: www.pebblepad.co.uk
Twitter: @pebblepad
Conference Supporters
About Texthelp
The Texthelp Group has spent three decades developing innovative education software tools that support literacy, accessibility, maths and science. With 60 million users across the globe, their software tools have a tangible, positive impact upon the educational development of countless students.
Texthelp software includes Read&Write, Equatio© and OrbitNote© – working everywhere learning happens. Across all devices, platforms and content types, they seamlessly integrate with the tools teachers and students already use.
With over 350 staff based across the UK, Nordics, US and Australia, the Texthelp mission is to help everyone understand and be understood. Visit www.texthelp.com for more information.
Website: www.texthelp.com
Twitter: @texthelp
About Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN)
The Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) is a network of doctoral candidates around the world whose research focuses on open education. These doctoral researchers are at the core of the network; around them, over two hundred experts, supervisors, mentors and interested parties connect to form a community of practice.
The aims of the GO-GN are to: raise the profile of research into open education offer support for those conducting doctoral research in this area promote equity and inclusion in the field of open education research develop openness as a process of research.
Find out more and join the network: go-gn.net/join/
Website: go-gn.net
Twitter: :@GOGN_OER
Better Examinations
BetterExaminations is a modern end-to-end exam management and eAssessment platform designed for the unique needs of Higher Education.
Through an extremely easy to use cloud-based platform, you can deliver exams and assessments to students anywhere in the world. With over 50 question types, a comprehensive range of subjects can be examined using a wide range of devices. For the institution, the platform provides comprehensive exam management, marking and reporting features including support for exam workflow, external examiner support, feedback / marking and features to help you manage traditional paper based exams.
Website: www.betterexaminations.com
Twitter: @BetterExams_
Anthology
Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. The company’s mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals.
Website: www.anthology.com/en-emea
Twitter: @AnthologyEMEA
About 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.
Website: openacademia.net/
Twitter:@open_academia
About Positive Internet
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.
Website: positive-internet.com
Twitter: @posipeople