By Geraldine Murphy, Rachel Challen and David Hopkins. Methodology Based on David Hopkins previous blog posts about perceived identities of Learning Technologists, the #LTFE project was developed to explore this conundrum in Further Education. The outcomes of the #LTFE project were based on qualitative data that was collected through the capture and archiving of Twitter posts from October 2013-November […] View Article
In November 2013 I was awarded my CMALT accreditation from the Associate for Learning Technology. I wrote about my journey on my own blog, and provided a few short but important tips for anyone looking at working towards their own CMALT award. Here is that post. After an awfully long time I have written, submitted, […] View Article
So a while ago we asked who had presented at ALT-C and other conferences so that we could collate all the great work that everyone’s busy doing. Below are a list of the links that were sent through. If there’s any other presentation that’d you like to flag up to the group, please do […] View Article
The next EMLT meeting will take place at the University of Derby in March or April. Before organising the date we would like to get a feel for when people within the group might be available. We are also keen to hear about the themes you would like to see covered at future events. If […] View Article
We have a great opportunity at Loughborough for an experienced E-Learning professional, if you are between contracts or looking for a new challenge. As part of commercialising the Co-Tutor software (with £100K of HEIF funding), we are looking to bring in some extra help. You will be working on Co-Tutor and other locally developed PHP based software […] View Article
Here is a post that I wrote on the University of Derby, Learning Technology Blog after attending an RSC Jisc webinar in January last year on ‘Webinars that work: how to minimise barriers and maximise inclusion’. View Article
The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) has been contributing to the Developing Digital Literacies programme funded by Jisc which aims… View Article
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
There’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
The 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
A new strategy for ALT We are currently consulting on a new strategy for ALT for 2014-17. In addition to… View Article
ALT has produced a series of short films to give you an inside view of who we are, what we… View Article
