Who am I? Reflections on the identity of a learning technologist.
People who know me a little bit, may have noticed that ideas pop into my head all the time. These… View Article
Leave a commentPeople who know me a little bit, may have noticed that ideas pop into my head all the time. These… View Article
Leave a commentA note of thanks to ALT Members from the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust. “Being shortlisted for the… View Article
Leave a commentThe Geography National Curriculum for England states that students should be taught to “use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to view,… View Article
Leave a commentDespite a growing body of writing on the subject of game-based learning – Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach… View Article
1 CommenteLearning@ed is a community of practice at the University of Edinburgh, which brings together learning technologists and academic colleagues through… View Article
Leave a commentThis event has been postponed. New date to be confirmed. Our summer meeting of the East Midlands Learning Technologists group is due to take place on Wednesday 23rd August 2017, 12:00-16:00, Loughborough University. Learning Analytics: Using data to improve the learner experience The data we collect from learners can be really powerful in helping us […] View Article
Leave a commentThis summer the Open Ed Sig is hosting a webinar which brings together people from across the many Open Education communities in order to facilitate a discussion of our shared values. The Open Ed Sig, having attempted to make the many facets of open communities visible through this “Joining the dots” initiative, invited representatives from […] View Article
2 CommentsDear Members I’d like to start this report with a warm welcome to everyone who’s joined ALT this year. It’s… View Article
Leave a commentThe question in the title of this blog post was raised by the QAA commissioned research report “Digital… View Article
9 CommentsIt 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
Leave a commentThis ALT Open Education SIG webinar is shared with FELTAG SIG and is part of a series of webinars ALT is organising in support of the FELTAG Movement. Thursday 15th June, 1pm View recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2017-06-15.0531.M.39572659483D2F3A05887B43B73705.vcr&sid=7565 The promise of open educational resources is attractive – a cornucopia of free resources, alternative explanations, different media, different […] View Article
1 CommentColin McLean, Registrar at IT Sligo, and Paul Gormley, Chair of ILTA, got the conference off to an inspiring start.… View Article
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