Mar
08
2017
Educational Developers Cookbook
When my children were small quite often I’d be asked to contribute a family recipe to a book which would… View Article
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Mar
02
2017
Will BREXIT prompt Universities to sharpen communication of Higher Education value?
A survey by SIGNAL showed that 88% of UK universities believed that they would suffer financially as a result of… View Article
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Mar
01
2017
Launching the new ALT Strategy 2017-2020
Trustees of ALT share their thoughts on the new strategy and the consultation shaping our shared vision for 2017-2020. View Article
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23
2017
A day in the life of an ALT Trustee
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
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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15
2017
In memory of Hans Rosling
“Academics never stand on ladders, only working class people.” Hans Rosling, ALT Conference, 9 September 2008, in Leeds. Many people will have been sad and shocked that Hans Rosling “a kind and constantly curious genius” died on 7 February, aged 68, from pancreatic cancer, in Uppsala, Sweden. Rosling was professor of international health at Stockholm’s […] View Article
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Jan
25
2017
#23things – how taking part turned into a digital knowledge habit
When the 23 Things for Digital Knowledge course #23things was launched in September 2016 by the University of Edinburgh I… View Article
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Jan
20
2017
Rich media for learning.
This post started life as a question to the ALT members list. Alison Christie, a learning technologist at Abertay University,… View Article
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Jan
13
2017
Open Learning as Lifelong Learning: Conduit for education in South Korea
South Korea is developing open learning on par with any nation in the world, fuelled essentially by virtually unlimited… View Article
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Jan
04
2017
A Review of the Digital Accessibility FutureLearn Course
A Review of the Digital Accessibility FutureLearn Course Have you ever tried using your computer with your eyes closed? Or… View Article
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