Are you or do you know someone (or a team) who is outstanding in using technology to support learning? If so why not enter (or encourage them to enter) for the Learning Technologist of the Year Award 2014? The Award’s overall purpose is to celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning […] View Article
Professor Terry Anderson, who is based at Athabasca University in Canada, is one of the famous figures of contemporary education, and his… View Article
… unless you fail to find something interesting. The second run of ocTEL, the Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning,… View Article
A shared vision for the future In early February Diana Laurillard, Chair of ALT, led the launch of our new strategy… View Article
So, another meeting has come and gone. There was cake, there were cups of tea, there was chatting and there were ideas. Lots of lovely ideas! All held at the University of Derby on the 2nd of April 2014. The theme for the meeting was ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ (which obviously meant that *that* […] View Article
Thinking differently about digital and social media The Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group (MELSIG) is a forum for thinking differently… View Article
There are many studies of how user expectations of institutional IT are changing: see for example the recent Educause review… View Article
One area the JISC digital literacies programme did not set out to explore was the capabilities required to learn successfully… View Article
The Open Education Resource SIG (OERSIG) was established in March 2012 and has over 110 members. As part of ALT’s… View Article
An evolving case study from the Faculty of Environment and Technology at the University of the West Of England. Top-down organisational change, however necessary, can be unsettling. It exposes skill and knowledge gaps, and is expected to be rapid. The Learning Innovation Unit was established within the Faculty of Environment and Technology at UWE Bristol […] View Article
The 21st international conference of the Association for Learning Technology will be held at the University of Warwick, from 1-3… View Article
Despite the fact that ‘track-changes’ is normally used in one-to-one editing and feedback (for example on draft theses, dissertations, reports… View Article