Awards and competitions

ALT runs a number of awards and competitions often together with other organisations. To find out more about past awards and competitions see our past awards page.

ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Award 2012

The Award has been run since 2007. Its overall purpose is to celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field. Refer to the 2012 Award Announcement and the award rubric [151 kB PDF - April 2012].

Download the award entry template and rubric [219 kB DOC - April 2012].

The media release for the 2011 competition is available here. For details of the 2011, 2010 and 2009 competitions go to http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2161, http://repository.alt.ac.uk/817 and http://repository.alt.ac.uk/666, where you will find summaries of each year’s winning and highly commended entries.

ALT-C 2012 Awards

Outstanding and Best Proceedings Paper Awards

All presented proceedings papers are considered by ALT for an Outstanding Proceedings Paper Award. To receive this award, the judges have to agree with the statement "This paper presents work that strongly advances the field of learning technology". [If there is no agreement on the words "strongly advances" then the judges may make a Best Proceedings Paper Award.]

Best Short Presentation Awards

All accepted short presentations are eligible for the Best Short Presentation Awards, one voted for by the conference delegates and the other subject to a wider online voting community.