The 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
Leave a commentWelcoming over 900 participants, we launched the Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning (ocTEL) on Monday, 28th April 2014. ocTEL is a 7-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to help participants understand better how to use technology to enhance teaching practices. The open, flexible nature of ocTEL means we’d argue that you cannot fail the course or […] View Article
Leave a commentALT awards Honorary Life Membership to individuals whom ALT believes have made an outstanding and sustained contribution to the advancement of ALT’s aims for the development of learning technology in a regional, national or international context through research, practice, policy-development, leadership, or a combination of these. The call for nominations has now been issued, with a closing […] View Article
Leave a commentLanguage learning is a long process that requires commitment and reflection. Learning a language alongside studying for a degree can be particularly demanding, especially if your main subject of study is unrelated to languages. The Language Centre at the University of Warwick offers an institution wide language programme to all students. This provides an opportunity […] View Article
Leave a commentSmartTables are relatively new on the technology enhanced learning scene but are rapidly becoming popular within Primary Schools. To date the majority of use has been focused on pre- school and primary school aged children, with content being developed to support their learning needs. Until now there has been no attempt to introduce SmartTables in […] View Article
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