OER17 presented an opportunity for open practitioners, activists, educators and policy makers to come together as a community to reflect on The Politics of Open. What are our current key challenges and strengths – locally, nationally, and internationally? What are our priorities – in terms of political governance, organisational and personal politics? What are the changes that […] View Article
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Dear Members of ALT My report would usually have reached you in February, but to celebrate the launch of… View Article
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Background In 2013 the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team in Manchester Medical School (MMS) started a review of current learning… View Article
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A survey by SIGNAL showed that 88% of UK universities believed that they would suffer financially as a result of… View Article
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Trustees of ALT share their thoughts on the new strategy and the consultation shaping our shared vision for 2017-2020. View Article
Leave a commentDaniel Scott was recently awarding Learning Technologist of the Year by the ALT community. In his own words, Daniel talks about his professional activity. “In my current role at Barnsley College (rated as “Outstanding” by Ofsted) as the Learning Support Technologist for nearly 7 years. In this position I research, develop, promote and evaluate a […] View Article
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If you are on the ALT mailing list, you may remember my name and this particular subject. In the summer of… View Article
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‘Narrative Ecologies’ frames a number of case studies of educators’ adopting new technologies around a thoroughly argued Narrative Ecology model,… View Article
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A few weeks ago we ran probably the first live broadcast using Periscope to support an online course in the… View Article
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Today everyone is using social media to socialise and connect. Students can link and share their work on Facebook, Twitter… View Article
Leave a commentI was fortunate enough to be able to attend the annual conference of the CILIP Multimedia, Information and Technology Group’s (MmIT) held at the University of Sheffield in mid-September. The opening keynote from Marie Kinsley (Professor of Journalism, University of Sheffield) discussed the core of some of the issues the conference title indicated and we […] View Article
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We co-founded Virtually Connecting as a way to enrich the virtual conference experience for those unable to physically attend conferences.… View Article
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