ALT’s Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning (ocTEL) is entering its final week. ocTEL has been and continues to be an excellent opportunity to explore ways in which we support ALT’s community of members. Last year the work we did in setting up a blog and community aggregations site directly feeding into the development of […] View Article
Leave a commentFirstly… very many thanks to Dr Stuart Jolly, BSc Coaching and Sports Science Course Leader, Nottingham Trent University for all of these fabulous ideas which he shared with us at our Spring 2014 EMLT meeting. He provided us with a video as part of his talk and while I could see everyone frantically scribbling to […] View Article
Leave a commentSummer is (almost!) here and it’s time for another East Midlands Learning Technologists’ meeting! The venue, date and time is set… so… we’ll hopefully see plenty of you at the University of Nottingham on July 8th from 12pm for lunch with the meeting starting at 1pm. The theme for the meeting is… ‘Open All Hours’ […] View Article
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San Diego is not just famous for being the location for Top Gun but also the annual CSUN International Technology… View Article
1 CommentThe 21st annual conference (‘Riding Giants: How to innovate and educate ahead of the wave’) of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) will take place from Monday 1st – Wednesday 3rd September 2014 at the University of Warwick in the UK. ALT and our members organise this conference to help educators, researchers, learning technologists and policy-makers keep […] View Article
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This is a featured post from ALT Sponsoring Member Jisc. There’s been a marked increase over the last two or… View Article
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Doug Gowan is a trustee and current vice chair of ALT The procedure for filling vacancies on ALT’s board of… View Article
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Shirley Evans is a Trustee of ALT, Chair of the Membership Development Committee and a member of the CMALT Development… View Article
Leave a commentALT was approached by a writer for ManagerSeminare (German monthly magazine on professional training and development) asking for comment on Learning Analytics. Given the questions asked the views of ALT Members we put the questions to them to discuss via the ALT-MEMBERS JiscMail list. These are the resulting reflections taken 21st-28th March 2014. The editorial […] View Article
Leave a commentAt our recent East Midlands Learning Technologists’ meeting, ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’, we were exploring the digital video creativity and between us we came up with a list of hints and tips for those wanting to work with video in learning and teaching. I promised I’d share our hints and tips… so… here they are… […] View Article
Leave a commentIf you are a member of ALT and would like to take a more active role in the governance of the Association, then you should consider standing for election either as Vice-Chair or Trustee. Trustees work together on the Central Executive Committee to ensure that the vision and aims set out in ALT’s strategy are being met and that […] View Article
Leave a commentNewcastle upon Tyne’s Centre for Life was the venue for the fifth annual conference on Open Education OER14, which took place in April. Two university students provided a superb welcome to delegates and Catherine Ngugi then provided a stirring keynote presentation which set the tone for the conference. As Project Director for OER Africa she […] View Article
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