Conferences

Rewiring Inclusion: Strategies, Tools and Techniques to promote barrier-free learning

Google and Yahoo! to present at JISC TechDis and ALT Conference

With an outstanding range of workshop sessions, and plenary contributions from:

Full provisional programme for the event [80 kB PDF], published on 23 December 2009.

1. Prior to dinner on 8 February, Julian Harty from Google will run a plenary session "Wave, Chrome OS, Online Docs, and Android. What impact will they have on the environment for learning?" Julian will also run a 40 minute workshop during the morning of 9 February.

2. During the morning of 9 February, Artur Ortega, Accessibility Evangelist for Yahoo! Europe, will speak in the opening plenary about the Yahoo! approach to accessibility. Artur will also run a 40 minute workshop during the morning of 9 February.

3. During the closing plenary on 9 February, Alison Mills, Head of Assessment for Learning at The Manchester College, will talk about how a large urban college is taking inclusion to the heart of its operations.

Booking deadline: Tuesday, 2 February 2010

To register your interest for the event, and to be kept informed about arrangements, please join the relevant low-volume email announcements list at http://www.alt.ac.uk/lists.html.

ALT reserves the right to make amendments to the programme of this event. Last updated: 18/12/2009

ALT-C 2010: 'Into something rich and strange' - making sense of the sea-change

Our 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.

Previous conferences

ALT-C 2009: 'In dreams begins responsibility' - choice, evidence, and change
The national launch conference for the Learning and Skills Improvement Service 'eCPD Programme'
ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide
Connecting the Future to the Past - New Learning '08
Emerge Online event: ‘Digital Communities & Digital Identities'
The Lab Group Open Day
e-learning – making it work 2007

ALT supported conference - The Future of Higher Education: ICT Leadership and Innovation
EMERGE Online Conference Event - 5th, 6th and 7th June 2007
ALT-C 2006: the next generation
ALT Spring Conference and Research Seminar 2006: New connections, new challenges

E-learning – making it work: FE practitioners conference 2005
ALT-C 2005: exploring the frontiers of e-learning - borders, outposts and migration
ALT Spring Conference and Research Seminar 2005: Reflective learning, future thinking

ALT-C 2004: Blues skies and pragmatism: learning technologies for the next decade
ALT Spring Conference 2004: Living & learning - ePortfolios and digital repositories

ALT-C 2003: Communities of Practice
Making Connections: People and Technologies
ALT-C 2002: Learning Technologies for Communication
eContent: different perspectives
ALT-C 1997
ALT-C 2001: changing learning environments

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