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
Literacy in the Digital University: Critical Perspectives on Learning, Scholarship, and Technology Edited by Robin Goodfellow and Mary R. Lea… View Article
Each year, our customer satisfaction survey tells us how much our supported learning providers appreciate hearing about real experiences from… View Article
Report from a Centre for Distance Education seminar, University of London, 13 Jan 2014 The University of London’s (UoL) Centre for Distance Education (CDE) provides thought-provoking lunchtime seminars on topics of interest to learning technology practitioners and staff who teach or administer online courses. A recent well-attended seminar on the practicalities of Massive Open Online […] View Article
I’ve been an ALT Individual Member since 2010 but having started my career in learning technology at Glasgow Caledonian University… View Article