Awards and competitions

ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Award and Special Award for Learners

Now in it's sixth year, 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 2013 call for entries for the main award and Special Award for Learners has now closed.
The deadline for entries was on 27 May 2013. 

For more information please see the FAQs page.

The media release for the 2012 competition is available here. For details of the 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009 competitions go to http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2233/, 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 Awards

Outstanding and Best Research Paper Awards

All presented research papers are considered by ALT for an Outstanding Research 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 Research Paper Award.]