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
Leave a commentYesterday 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
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Sheila MacNeill is a Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University Glasgow Caledonian University have taken their first steps into the… View Article
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Sheila MacNeill is a Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University and the 2013 winner in the individual category of the… View Article
Leave a commentThis 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
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On 21st May, Instructure held an event at the ME Hotel on The Strand in London to celebrate the launch… View Article
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An ALT webinar on the potentially foolish date of 1st April 2014 invited participants to consider findings from the JISC… View Article
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The Higher Education Academy is currently running a series of practitioner workshops – Changing the Learning Landscape. One of these,… View Article
1 CommentLast week I was presenting at the Google Apps for Education European User Group (GEUG) at the University of York. It was the third time this event has been run and as in previous years was an excellent opportunity for Google Apps for Education users to come together and share some of their experiences. The […] View Article
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This blog post appeared first on the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, LSHTM elearning blog http://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/elearning/ Joanne is an… View Article
Leave a commentMOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – have been grabbing headlines and conference time for a year or two now. It’s the very large numbers that attract attention. But are MOOCs solving any real, global education problems? They are certainly not solving the problem of providing the 100,000,000 university places now needed by young people […] View Article
Leave a commentALT’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
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