ALT - the Association for Learning Technology

ALT is a professional and scholarly association which seeks to bring together all those with an interest in the use of learning technology. With over 200 organisations and over 600 individuals in membership, we:

• represent and support our members, and provide services for them
• facilitate collaboration between practitioners, researchers, and policy makers
• spread good practice in the use of learning technology
• raise the profile of research in learning technology
• support the professionalisation of learning technologists
• contribute to the development of policy

Join ALT as an individual or organisational member.

Key current links

Rewiring Inclusion: Strategies, Tools and Techniques to promote barrier-free learning. A national one day conference in Nottingham at the National College from the evening of Monday 8 February to the afternoon of Tuesday 9 February 2010, organised jointly by ALT and JISC TechDis for any staff whose work and role affects learners and learning. Plenary speakers include Julian Harty from Google, Jane Seale from Southampton University, Artur Ortega from Yahoo!, Peter Hartley from Bradford University, Dónal Fitzpatrick from Dublin City University, and Alison Mills from The Manchester College. Full programme for the event [1 MB PDF]; opt-in mailing list; further information.
Please note that thebooking system for this event is now closed. In case of difficulty, please telephone +44(0)1865 484125.

Call documents and submissions for ALT-C 2010. These are now available to download; the submission system is now open.

Research. In November we published a revised Research Strategy.

The Transformational Impact of Learning Technology. November 2009 call for papers for a Special Issue of the ALT Journal to be published in November 2010.

New ALT Special Interest Group - ALT Learning Environment Review SIG (LERSIG). For more information please refer to the LERSIG CrowdVine site.

Lunchtime webinars. Jointly with the E-Learning Network, ALT is running a series of free 90 minute lunchtime webinars: the next webinar Why eLearning Projects Go Wrong, is on 17 February at 12 midday - book to take part.

2009 ALT Conference keynote speeches and invited speaker sessions. Links to videos and Elluminate Live! Sessions are now available on the Keynotes and Invited Speakers page.

Keep in touch with ALT. Subscribe to any or all of four key ALT information lists.

ALT Strategy. Here is a link to the revised and updated ALT 2008-2011 Strategy [38 kB PDF].

Awards. Find out about our awards from the awards and competitions page.

ALT Newsletter. Read the most recent issue of our Quarterly Online Newsletter.

Policy consultation responses. Recent consultation responses by ALT are available for download.

CMALT. Find out about our certification scheme for learning technologists. Opt-in mailing list.

Forms for joining ALT as an individual member. Individual UK members of ALT can pay reduced membership fees if they pay by Direct Debit. To take advantage of this reduction, complete a Direct Debit instruction form [~100 kB PDF], and return this to ALT. For further information see our membership information page.

ALT-C: our annual international conference.

• ALT-C 2010: 'Into something rich and strange' - making sense of the sea-change will be held at Nottingham, England, 7 - 9 September 2010. Keynote Speakers will include: Barbara Wasson, Professor of Pedagogical Information Science at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway; Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University; Donald Clark, Board Member of Ufi, and former CEO of Epic Group plc. Invited Speakers will be announced during early 2010. Call documents for ALT-C 2010 are now available to download; proposals for inclusion in the programme will be accepted between mid December 2009 and 15 February 2010.
  
• ALT-C 2009: 'In dreams begins responsibility' - choice, evidence, and change was held at Manchester, England, 8 - 10 September 2009. Keynote speakers included Martin Bean, Vice Chancellor Designate of the Open University, UK, Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, USA and Terry Anderson, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Distance Education at Athabasca University, Canada. Links to videos and Elluminate Live! Sessions are now available on the Keynotes and Invited Speakers page.
  

Support

Over 600 individuals belong to ALT, as do over 200 universities, colleges, other learning providers, Government Agencies, and businesses. Our sponsoring members are:

Adobe Systems Europe Ltd | BDP Media Group Ltd | Becta | BIS | Blackboard | British Council | BTL | Desire2Learn | Eduserv | Elluminate | Epigeum Ltd | Google | HEFCE | Huddle | IMC (UK) Learning Ltd | JANET(UK) | JISC | LSC | LSN education | LSIS | National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services | Scottish Funding Councils for Further and Higher Education | Scottish Qualifications Authority | Sun Microsystems Ltd | Talis | The Higher Education Academy | The Positive Internet Company | Toshiba Information Systems (UK) Ltd | Tribal Education Ltd | Ufi | Welsh Assembly Government | Wimba

To view a complete list, including contacts of all our members, please go to Sponsoring and Organisational members.

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