This consultation survey was set up as part of ALT’s work for the Education Technology Action Group (ETAG), reporting to the Secretary of State for Education, the Minister for Higher Education, and the Minister for Skills, in 2014 and led by Prof Diana Laurillard, Chair of ALT. ETAG was initiated by the Minister for Skills […] View Article
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The ALT conference provides an annual opportunity for the ALT community to come together, either in person or online, to… View Article
Leave a commentLike many other educational conferences, there is a very active backchannel. Twitter has had a useful role in enabling people to connect and share thoughts, observations and reflections. This is achieved with the help of hashtags, a mechanism for self-organisation and categorisation of content. a word or phrase preceded by a hash sign (#), used […] View Article
Leave a commentThis is the 2014 call for an Editor in Chief and two Deputy Editors of ALT Online Newsletter. About ALT Online Newsletter The ALT Online Newsletter is a news blog published on a continuous basis by the Association for Learning Technology. It contains a wide range of articles, including news, opinion pieces, project updates, case studies, […] View Article
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The Higher Education Academy is currently running a series of practitioner workshops – Changing the Learning Landscape. One of these,… View Article
Leave a commentThe 21st annual conference (‘Riding Giants: How to innovate and educate ahead of the wave’) of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) will take place from Monday 1st – Wednesday 3rd September 2014 at the University of Warwick in the UK. ALT and our members organise this conference to help educators, researchers, learning technologists and policy-makers keep […] View Article
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Doug Gowan is a trustee and current vice chair of ALT The procedure for filling vacancies on ALT’s board of… View Article
Leave a comment Shirley Evans is a Trustee of ALT, Chair of the Membership Development Committee and a member of the CMALT Development… View Article
Leave a commentIf you are a member of ALT and would like to take a more active role in the governance of the Association, then you should consider standing for election either as Vice-Chair or Trustee. Trustees work together on the Central Executive Committee to ensure that the vision and aims set out in ALT’s strategy are being met and that […] View Article
Leave a commentWelcoming over 900 participants, we launched the Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning (ocTEL) on Monday, 28th April 2014. ocTEL is a 7-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to help participants understand better how to use technology to enhance teaching practices. The open, flexible nature of ocTEL means we’d argue that you cannot fail the course or […] View Article
Leave a commentALT awards Honorary Life Membership to individuals whom ALT believes have made an outstanding and sustained contribution to the advancement of ALT’s aims for the development of learning technology in a regional, national or international context through research, practice, policy-development, leadership, or a combination of these. The call for nominations has now been issued, with a closing […] View Article
Leave a commentAre you or do you know someone (or a team) who is outstanding in using technology to support learning? If so why not enter (or encourage them to enter) for the Learning Technologist of the Year Award 2014? The Award’s overall purpose is to celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning […] View Article
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