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.

Honorary Life Membership

ALT awards HLM to individuals whom ALT believes have made an outstanding and sustained contribution to the advancement of ALT's aims for the development of learning technology in a national or international context through research, practice, policy-development, leadership, or a combination of these. The 2012 call for nominations will be issued in March. The Honorary Life Membership policy is available from Internal ALT documents. Past recipients of Honorary Life Membership are Keith Duckitt (RIP), Terry Mayes, David Hawkridge, and Malcolm Read.

ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Award

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. 

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-Epigeum Award for most effective use of video in an educational or training context

The Award has been run since 2009. It aims to give credit to those practitioners who are exploiting video to enhance learning, and to disseminate good practice around the sector. Entries are judged under five criteria: effect on learning; appropriateness of video to the task; extent to which the video is fit for purpose; quality of execution; novelty.

For details of past winners please see our past awards page.

For further information about the 2011 award please refer to the award rubric .

Jorum Learning & Teaching Competition

The competition has been hosted by Jorum since 2009. It looks for exciting, innovative learning and teaching resources that have been created under a Creative Commons licence. Resources are judged under four criteria: appropriateness; engagement/innovation; effectiveness; reusability and portability.

For details of past competitions please see our past awards page.

For further information about the 2011 competition please refer to the competition rubric.

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.