As part of Open Education Week 2015, Dave White and Donna Lanclos facilitated a Visitors & Residents workshop “Marvellous Mapping” for educators and researchers at the National University of Ireland in Galway. Dave is the originator of the Visitors and Residents concept and Dave and Donna are on the research team that developed the related […] View Article
Dear Members of ALT, This is a busy time for our community and I am pleased to report on so… View Article
Earlier in March, Jisc's Digifest event comprised 90 speakers across 85 sessions, This post offers the reflections of three of… View Article
The LT Conference returned to London in January, showcasing a range of tech enterprises. Trends are obviously very subjective, but these were gleaned from the conference: The lexicons of story-telling and journalism are appearing more frequently in learning. The language is readily-understood by a wide audience (and accessible language is always preferred to impenetrable jargon […] View Article
Members of Landex ‘Land based Colleges Aspiring to Excellence’ recently attended a Blended Learning CPD Event addressing ‘The Strategic Use… View Article
This is a featured post from ALT Sponsoring Member Talis. Earlier this academic year I found myself teaching in ‘flipped… View Article
In this session Vivien Rolfe talks to Martin Hawksey, Chief Innovation, Community and Technology Officer at the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), about the development of the Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning (ocTEL). As part of this we explore how ALT Members supported the design, development and running of the course as well as the […] View Article
My role at the University of Southampton has always been about working with staff and students to engage in active… View Article
Recently a member of the public asked for some guidance on home schooling resources for computing: “Greetings I’m a home… View Article
An Open Badge framework helps University of Warwick motivate student development in an online learning project View Article
Are webinars critical for distance learning? This question sparked lively conversation on the ALT mail list recently. The answers, from individuals with a wealth of experience in delivering live online learning, ranged from ‘not critical’, to ‘important’, to ‘it depends on the context’. Whatever the answer is in a particular situation, there was an underlying […] View Article
Taking an idea about how to engage the wider learning technology community in exploring how and where we work is… View Article