Past awards

2011

Learning Technologist of the Year Award 2011

Find out more about the winners of the award in 2011 - [1.9 MB PDF]

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.

Winner
James McDowell, University of Huddersfield. VELOCITy: Video Enhanced Learning Opportunities in Computing and Information Technology.

Finalists
Clare Hardman and Phil Watten, University of Sussex. How to Give a Good Presentation.
Susan Lesley Daniels, University of Leeds. Inter-professional learning for healthcare pre-registrations students around safeguarding children through the medium of a video of a play called "Bad Mummy".
Gary Morris, University of Leeds. Understanding and engaging with the lived experience of dementia.
Chris O'Reilly, University of Derby. X- ray Movies for students on the Move.

For further information about the 2011 award please refer to the award rubric - [26.2 kB PDF]

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 further information about the 2011 competition please refer to the competition rubric - [222 kB PDF]

ALT-C 2011 Awards

Best Proceedings Paper
0094 "DeFrosting Professional Development: Reconceptualising Teaching using Social Learning Technologies"
Thomas Cochrane and Vickel Narayan

Best Short Presentation
0015 "Project SOAR - Student's Online Attention and Reading Lists: navigating the river of student attention"
Alan Cann
0148 "Matchmaking Learning Technologists and Flourishing Collaborations: The Case of The Bloomsbury Colleges"
Tim Neumann, Sarah Sherman
0221 "Effectiveness of online technologies for laboratory-based work"
Jacky Forsyth
0233 "Do students like individual feedback videos?"
Philip Wane
0243 "Arduino culture - Creative collaboration inside and outside of school"
Steve Bunce

Best ePoster
0190 "If the lecture is recorded, what’s the point of the lecture? Comparing staff and student views about lecture capture"
Alysa Bramble, Manoj Singh and Eoin McDonnell

2010

Learning Technologist of the Year Award 2010 - find out more about the winners in 2010 - [569 kB PDF]

Epigeum Award for the Most Effective Use of Video 2010 - [32 kB PDF]

Jorum Learning & Teaching Competition 2010 - [31 kB PDF]

ALT-C 2010 Best Poster and Best Proceedings Paper Awards

Best Proceedings Paper
0188 "An analysis of first-year business students' mobile phones and their use for learning" [1.3 MB PDF of full paper]
Claire Bradley and Debbie Holley, London Metropolitan University.

Best Poster
Best Poster Award (voting by conference delegates)
0204 "First steps to second life: learning to simulate and simulating to learn" [1.9MB PDF Poster]
Bob Hallawell, Jenny Prior, Patrick Lockley, University of Nottingham.
Best Poster Award (voting by people not attending the conference)
0096 "Changing the way we see test-items in a computer-based environment: Screen design and question difficulty" [2MB PDF Poster]
Matt Haigh, Cambridge Assessment.