Our Spring meeting of the East Midlands Learning Technologists’ group is due to take place on April Fools Day, 1st April 2015 at the University of Derby, on the subject of… Developing Digital Literacies There is a lot of talk about how organisations need to ensure their workforce and students are digitally literate, but what […] View Article
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Update: There is now a report by Graham McElearney from this White Rose Learning Technologists’ event (this report includes a recording of the presentation… View Article
Leave a commentThe desire to develop open education frontiers has often focussed on improving access geographically to distant students, or to those unable to gain a place in Higher Education, through digital provision. However, these resources often fail to understand the accessibility challenges they raise and what needs to be done to avoid them. The Inclusive Learning […] View Article
Leave a commentCritical thinking thrived at the 2014 ascilite annual conference (24th-26th November), held in Dunedin, New Zealand, with presentations interrogating claims on a number of themes. Shane Dawson (University of South Australia) in a thought-provoking keynote questioned the value being extracted from analytics software across the HE sector, viewing the technology as a blunt instrument in […] View Article
1 CommentIn common with many other institutions the University of Brighton has seen a huge increase in the volume of assignments being graded electronically and there is a need to ensure that a range of esubmission tools are offered in a clear and consistent manner to support our teaching colleagues. Blackboard and Turnitin Recently a question […] View Article
Leave a commentCreative Commons (CC) licences are a simple way of retaining copyright whilst allowing others to reuse your work. The range of licences lets you define how others can reuse your material. This session will demonstrate how simple it is to use CC licences and what they mean in practice. We will also introduce the UK […] View Article
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This is my last report to ALT Members for this year and there is much that we have achieved over… View Article
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ALT is launching a new Annual Survey. The survey is open for responses now at http://go.alt.ac.uk/ALT-Survey-2014 and will close on Sunday, 15… View Article
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The value of the ALT Jiscmail list has reminded us once again, how fortunate we have been to have links… View Article
1 CommentThe University of Warwick Language Centre and the Centre for Applied Linguistics are partners in an EU project called Video for All. The project’s mission is to support language teachers in all sectors in the exploitation of video for teaching. The Language Centre has been innovating in the use of digital media for some time […] View Article
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A self-help anxiety app developed by UWE (The University of the West of England) is helping students to better manage… View Article
Leave a commentIn my experience as a learning technologist in HE there can sometimes be a misconception (and at times assumption) on the part of the teacher that the use of eLearning should inevitably, or to a significant extent at least lead to a more efficient, less labour-intensive work flow. At times, having demonstrated a particular eLearning […] View Article
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