Welcome and overview of meeting Sarah Horrigan opened the event with a quote from Martin Weller (2013) about openness. “Openness has been successful in being accepted as an approach in higher education and widely adopted as standard practice. In this sense it has been victorious, but this can be seen as only the first stage […] View Article
Leave a commentThere’s a lot of debate around at the moment about MOOC’s (Massive Online Open Courses) in all their variants. In particular, there’s the question about how they can continue with no obvious business model? It’s the same for any “open” project, whether it’s open source software or open courses. The project must have a business […] View Article
1 CommentThe theme of our December East Midlands Learning Technologists’ meeting which will take place on the 11th of December at De Montfort University in Leicester is openness – Open learning, open sharing, open practice – and we need you! We’d like to have some PechaKucha presentations from our community – 6 minute presentations with images […] View Article
Leave a comment
A new strategy for ALT We are currently consulting on a new strategy for ALT for 2014-17. In addition to… View Article
1 Comment
ALT has produced a series of short films to give you an inside view of who we are, what we… View Article
Leave a commentHi All, The next EMLT meeting will take place in December, looking at the theme of ‘Open learning, open sharing, open practice’. Time and date: Wednesday 11th December 2013 – 12.00pm-4.00pm Location: De Montfort University, Hugh Aston Building, LE2 7BQ To book a place, please complete the form on Eventbrite, you will need to enter […] View Article
Leave a comment
Gwen Noteborn is heading the Edl@b (education Lab) at Maastricht University (www.edlab.nl) and works with teachers, students and companies to… View Article
Leave a comment
ALT convened a Policy Board meeting on 7 October 2013 at the Institute of Education in London. These meetings are… View Article
Leave a comment
Meet the new editors of ALT Online Newsletter, Liz Bennett, Sarah Cornelius and Frank Steiner. View Article
Leave a commentApologies for the delay in writing something up for our last meeting – September some how whizzed by and suddenly we’re part of the way through October! So, our meeting at ALT-C (the annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology) took place on the 11th of September at the fantastic venue of the University of […] View Article
Leave a commentHi All, The next meeting of the East Midlands Learning Technologists Group will take place on Wednesday 11th September at 5pm, Conference Suite 2, East Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RJ. Directions: http://bit.ly/18OZFRW Map of Campus: http://bit.ly/17kyvo1 I want to apologise for the late notice, but we have only just heard from ALT […] View Article
Leave a commentThe sun was beating down. There were clear blue skies and ice creams to keep cool. So, why did over 30 Learning Technologists from around the East Midlands head to the Design School at University of Loughborough? Instagram Link: http://instagram.com/p/b3c3oKn2na/ For the inaugural meeting of the East Midlands Learning Technologist Group, of course. And it was […] View Article
Leave a comment