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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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Aug
06
2018

M25-LTG July 2018 Meeting on Instructional Design / Learning Design

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The ALT M25 Learning Technology Group (#M25LTG) meeting was held at The University of East London, hosted by the Centre… View Article

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May
08
2018

Students’ learning responses to receiving dashboard data

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Learning analytics is a burgeoning area of interest to the learning technology and wider educational community at the moment.  The… 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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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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Apr
15
2016

Preview of #OER16: Open Culture

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In April the OER16 Conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh, chaired by Melissa Highton, Director of Learning,… View Article

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Apr
05
2016

UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2016

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  Now in its fifth year, the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2016 (#MLW2016) has certainly succeeded in raising the profile… View Article

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Mar
22
2016

Chief Executive’s Report, March 2016

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Dear Members of ALT, This is my first report to you in 2016 and I hope that you will find… View Article

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