Attending ALT-C 2016 on a librarianly day!

Colleagues from Warwick’s Library team, Tracy Dix and Kate Courage, attended the ALT conference for the first time this year. Here are their reflections. “The day started with Jane Secker’s keynote on copyright and elearning, a topic she’s been presenting at conferences on since 2011. By asking what terrorism has got to do with learning […] View Article

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Daniel Scott: Award Winning Learning Technologist

Daniel Scott was recently awarding Learning Technologist of the Year by the ALT community. In his own words, Daniel talks about his professional activity.  “In my current role at Barnsley College (rated as “Outstanding” by Ofsted) as the Learning Support Technologist for nearly 7 years.  In this position I research, develop, promote and evaluate a […] View Article

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Webinar Recording : ‘A New Look at Wikimedia, the World’s Largest OER’

26 October 2016 with Martin Poulter As Jorum repository is set to retire in September 2016 (http://www.jorum.ac.uk/retirement/). Martin Poulter considers whether Wikimedia has a role in Open Education and can be used in ways not previously considered – part repository, part VLE, part academic publishing and collaboration. Is there an opportunity here to move more into […] View Article

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EMLT – Winter 2016

Our Winter meeting of the East Midlands Learning Technologists’ group is taking place on Monday 19th December at Loughborough College. The session will be slightly different from our usual fare in that we will be experiencing ENIGMA. Note that lunch is not being provided, so please ‘bring your own lunch’. The AOB at 3pm will […] View Article

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Webinar recording: Open principles in education.

Open Principles in Education – Bridging Bridges, Empowering communities – presented by Suchith Anand, University of Nottingham. This presentation shared experiences from “Geo for All” initiative on the importance of having open principles in education for empowering communities worldwide . Central to “Geo for All” mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good […] View Article

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