{"id":7064,"date":"2018-05-01T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2018-05-01T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T08:22:51","slug":"ingredients-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2018\/05\/ingredients-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingredients for change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt;line-height: normal\"><p class=\"note\">A video post from Paul Towers, Educational Developer, College of Learning and Teaching, University of Wolverhampton.<\/p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In the video post below, Paul shares how focusing on people and culture has been the key criteria to successfully transitioning from a deeply integrated Virtual Learning Environment\u00a0to a new platform across the institution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KD11r_XKDis?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"info\">Paul Towers, Educational Developer, College of Learning and Teaching, University of Wolverhampton. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/towers1983\">@Towers1983<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\">If you enjoyed reading this article we invite you to join the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) as an individual member, and to encourage your own organisation to join ALT as an organisational or sponsoring member<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; In the video post below, Paul shares how focusing on people and culture has been the key criteria to successfully transitioning from a deeply integrated Virtual Learning Environment\u00a0to a new platform across the institution. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":7070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1056],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","category-project-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1112\/2018\/04\/Thumbnail.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3376,"url":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/ucisa-effective-use-of-mobile-technologies-to-enhance-learning-teaching-and-assessment\/","url_meta":{"origin":7064,"position":0},"title":"UCISA Effective use of mobile technologies to enhance learning, teaching and assessment","author":"ALT","date":"10 March 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"How can mobile learning enhance the student learning experience? 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