The first Student Social Media Showcase (SMSS) and the inaugural European Conference on Social Media 2014 (ECSM2014) were hosted 9th-11th July by the University of Brighton Business E-Learning Research Group and took place in the Huxley Building, Brighton. The two events brought together over 250 academics (from 35 countries), students, school children […] View Article
The Summer meeting of the ALT M25 Learning Technology group took place on 2nd July at Imperial College London. Leo… View Article
This post introduces the design and delivery of BYOD4L – Bring Your Own Devices For Learning (http://byod4learning.wordpress.com/), a team effort… View Article
It’s August and in less than a month ALT’s annual conference will bring together a big part of our community… View Article
The ALT conference provides an annual opportunity for the ALT community to come together, either in person or online, to… View Article
Like many other educational conferences, there is a very active backchannel. Twitter has had a useful role in enabling people to connect and share thoughts, observations and reflections. This is achieved with the help of hashtags, a mechanism for self-organisation and categorisation of content. a word or phrase preceded by a hash sign (#), used […] View Article
Yesterday I attended our new series NetworkEDGE: The Future of Education online, because we live stream (and record) these things and therefore I could. We were lucky enough to have Stephen Downes inaugurate, and I watched, listened and tweeted along. Downes shared his utopian anti-institutional view of education with us and that’s the kind of thing I lap up. […] View Article
Sheila MacNeill is a Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University Glasgow Caledonian University have taken their first steps into the… View Article
Sheila MacNeill is a Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University and the 2013 winner in the individual category of the… View Article
This is the 2014 call for an Editor in Chief and two Deputy Editors of ALT Online Newsletter. About ALT Online Newsletter The ALT Online Newsletter is a news blog published on a continuous basis by the Association for Learning Technology. It contains a wide range of articles, including news, opinion pieces, project updates, case studies, […] View Article
On 21st May, Instructure held an event at the ME Hotel on The Strand in London to celebrate the launch… View Article
An ALT webinar on the potentially foolish date of 1st April 2014 invited participants to consider findings from the JISC… View Article