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Jan
16
2018

How we scaled professional recognition for staff working with Learning Technology at the University of Edinburgh

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Creating a digital Culture For the last 18 months I’ve been working on an ongoing project to support the professional… View Article

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Oct
17
2017

#HEBlogSwap – Sharing Practice and Building Community in Cyberspace

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The idea of the #HEblogswap arose in September 2016 when Santanu Vasant approached me via Twitter to do a blog… View Article

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Oct
09
2017

How and why should Learning Technologists engage with start-ups?

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A conversation between Anders Krohn, CEO at Aula Education, and Dr Maren Deepwell, CEO at ALT. At the recent ALT… View Article

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Oct
06
2017

ALT contributes to the world’s leading festival for the open Internet movement … #MozFest

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From 27 to 29 October, the Mozilla Festival or Mozfest, the world’s leading festival for the open Internet movement, takes… View Article

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Sep
28
2017

Who am I? Reflections on the identity of a learning technologist.

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People who know me a little bit, may have noticed that ideas pop into my head all the time. These… View Article

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Sep
25
2017

ALT Learning Technologist of the Year: a note of thanks.

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  A note of thanks to ALT Members from the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust. “Being shortlisted for the… View Article

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Jun
26
2017

Can teaching excellence be promoted through the development of digital capabilities?

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    The question in the title of this blog post was raised by the QAA commissioned research report “Digital… View Article

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Jun
20
2017

Technology Enhanced Learning – a literature of hope or despair?

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It was a wet and cold Friday morning in February when I posted this request to ALT-MEMBERS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK ‘End of week TEL challenge!  During my research I’ve found a host of reports critical of the claims of TEL and the quality of TEL research. Calling on Surowiecki’s ‘wisdom of crowds’ I wondered who on the list […] View Article

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May
22
2017

Future Happens Hack: Social Media – A report

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‘We are here to make the most of social media in teaching, learning and assessment. We recognise social media is… View Article

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Apr
26
2017

Learning technologies and area review: a post-merger outlook

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On Wednesday 1st February 2017, Dearne Valley College joined forces with the recently established RNN Group of Colleges, which itself was formed through the merger of Rotherham College and North Nottinghamshire College 12 months prior. The near £50m triumvirate aims to service the locality with the best possible academic offer and gives the opportunity to […] View Article

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Feb
23
2017

A day in the life of an ALT Trustee

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This post has taken a long time to write, not because it’s any kind of magnum opus, but because the days in my life in 2017 have been both busy and slightly repetitive, I’ve not been able to really reflect on them and readers may have found them a little dull. Now I have a […] View Article

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Feb
19
2017

7 tips for developing a learning analytics policy

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The University of West London (UWL) published its learning analytics policy in September 2016. In this post I share some… View Article

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