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Apr
04
2025

Celebrating Women in Tech: ALT Community Members Shine on Women in Tech Day 2025

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In honour of ‘Women in Tech Day 2025,’ we celebrate the remarkable achievements of women within the ALT community. This… View Article

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Sep
12
2024

An #altc blog retrospective on careers 

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A key purpose of the ALT Annual Survey is to identify emerging trends in current and future practice with the… View Article

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Mar
26
2024

How your skills can transition a learning development career into product development

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This post collates insights from industry professionals who previously held positions in teaching and learning development roles and switched into… View Article

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May
30
2023

Notes from ARLT SIG 23rd Feb 2023 meeting –  Creating visibility for PoC colleagues who work in junior roles by Dr Teeroumanee Nadan

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This post was originally shared on 2 March 2023 on Dr Teeroumanee Nadan’s blog teeroumaneenadan.com. On 23rd Feb, members of… View Article

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Aug
04
2021

Learning Technologist: You’re Hired! Part 5 – Post interview and advice

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In the fourth post of this series, we provided some advice for the day of the interview. In this final… View Article

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Jul
28
2021

Learning Technologist: You’re Hired! Part 4 – The interview

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In the last post of this series, we talked about how to prepare for an interview. In this fourth entry… View Article

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Jul
21
2021

Learning Technologist: You’re Hired! Part 3 – Interview preparation

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In the first two parts of this blog series, we talked about how to prepare for and write a good… View Article

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Jul
14
2021

Learning Technologist: You’re Hired! Part 2 – Your application

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In our first post we looked at how to identify and prepare for the application. Now we want to take… View Article

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Jul
07
2021

Learning Technologist: You’re Hired! Part 1 – Prepare to apply

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Over the years we have been involved in many recruitment rounds for Learning Technologist roles at several universities and have… View Article

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Dec
21
2020

Learning Technologist…and what is next? The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in the opportunities for career progression

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Exactly a year ago I had written a blog post titled “Learning technologist… and what is next?” that was meant… View Article

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Sep
02
2020

“What makes a Learning Technologist?” – Part 4 of 4: Best-part challenges

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Background to the series Inspired by topical discussions on the diversity, complexity and uniqueness of Learning Technologist roles, myself (Daniel… View Article

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Jan
06
2020

“What makes a Learning Technologist?” – Part 3 of 4: Roles and duties

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Background to the series Inspired by topical discussions on the diversity, complexity and uniqueness of Learning Technologist roles, Daniel Scott… View Article

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