Taken in the 1960’s, this picture shows my dad, Clifford Whitney, talking about products he used in our family hairdressing business Villa Hair Fashions in the Midlands. He was chosen to be the face of L’Oréal’s latest salon professional product line. My parents had little formal education. With financial support from an auntie they were […] View Article
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For a couple of months we’ve been having a monthly Google Hangout On Air with members of the ALT community.… View Article
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Leave a commentGet involved To join the OE SIG, please sign up to the mailing list: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/OPENEDSIG Continue the conversation on twitter using #openedsig We also encourage you to sign-up to the commitment to Open Education which can be found at http://www.open.ac.uk/score/make-commitment-open-education View Article
Leave a commentFollowing a seismically disruptive week in the world, the theme of the second meeting of the ALT West Midlands Group was Disruptive Learning. Had we not had enough? Held in Coventry University’s Disruptive Media Learning Lab, the 20+ participants lounged Nero style on bean bags or shuffled uncomfortably on astro turf to the accompaniment of […] View Article
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The recent ALT-Scotland SIG event in June was both informative and fun. It was held on the east coast of… View Article
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Photo by @emmaprocterlegg The 15th Annual Academic Practice and Technology (APT) conference was held at the beautiful Greenwich University Maritime… View Article
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The Festival Each year, the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University runs a one day… View Article
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Dear Members of ALT, This time of year, when many are getting ready for a well deserved break, is the… View Article
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The University of Sunderland offers students the opportunity to study a language through the Combined Subjects Programme (CSP) and as… View Article
Leave a commentOur Late Summer meeting of the East Midlands Learning Technologists’ group is taking place on Wednesday 24th August at the University of Nottingham (Jubilee Campus). There is no fixed theme for this meeting. During this event we would like to explore whatever themes those attending are interested in exploring – sharing our experiences in the […] View Article
‘Narrative Ecologies’ frames a number of case studies of educators’ adopting new technologies around a thoroughly argued Narrative Ecology model,… View Article
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