Professor Grainne Conole, Chair of Education Bath Spa University, describes her journey as an academic working in the open. The webinar took place via Blackboard Collaborate. A recording of the session can be accessed with this link: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2015-10-19.0431.M.E60BA905552B680BADEE9E44841237.vcr&sid=7565 When 19 Oct 2015 12:30 PM to 1:15 PM Location Online United Kingdom View Article
App used: The University of Southampton has been trialling the use of Slack, informally among colleagues for about a year. We have used it within a group of specialist academics who have been focusing on innovation and also with student groups – in particular the student interns we employed this summer to support the […] View Article
Language learning through video. VideoForAll is a 2 year EU funded project that began in January 2014 and brings together a range of partners from across the European Union. At the heart of the project is a one stop shop where language teachers can find examples of how video can be used to foster language […] View Article
I have attended ALTC for five years without break, since I joined the Association for Learning Technology. I came in… View Article
Presentation by Martin Weller Professor of Educational Technology, Institute of Educational Technology Open University Introduced by Ella Mitchell and Sarah Bridgman . The OER Research Hub has been investigating the impact of OERs, using eleven hypotheses, and a mixed methods approach to establish an evidence base. This talk explores the findings relating to teaching and […] View Article
Our Winter meeting of the East Midlands Learning Technologists’ group is due to take place on Wednesday 9th December 2015, De Montfort University. The art of assessment. Assessment is at the heart of any learning professionals life. Whether formative or summative it plays a significant role in allowing us to judge a learner’s progress, as […] View Article
We co-founded Virtually Connecting as a way to enrich the virtual conference experience for those unable to physically attend conferences.… View Article
I’ve been working as the Head of TEL at the University of West London since March 2014. While late-August might not be a typical week of the year, the activities I was involved in are not atypical; plenty of meetings as usual. Monday My week started, as it always does, with our departmental meeting. The […] View Article
The online version of the ALT newsletter is now 10 years old! We are celebrating by relaunching the online newsletter… View Article
Stolen Lives is a project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) with support from the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) at the University of Hull. The project aims to raise awareness of both historic and modern-day slavery through short musical and narrative videos. These educational resources are […] View Article
The Social Ontology of Digital Data & Digital Technology Conference took place on 8 July 2015 at The Shard in London. This conference set out to explore the meaning of technology and data and its place in the world. It touched upon many ideas which are debated in learning technology circles all the time. As […] View Article
Change management is a phenomenon pretty much every individual in every workplace in the world must have experienced in the… View Article
