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Our 2025 Annual General Meeting will be held online at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, 19 November 2025. 

Our 2025 Annual General Meeting will be held online at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, 19 November 2025. 

To enable more members to attend from across the UK and beyond, we are moving the AGM online this year. All Members are encouraged to attend, and the AGM is also open to guests and observers.  Please register in advance to confirm your attendance. Registrations will remain open until 19 November 2025 for observers.

The AGM will run in Zoom. If you have not used Zoom before, it may be helpful to consult our webinar FAQs. 

In accordance with the ALT Constitution adopted in 2019, the business of the Annual General Meeting will include approval of accounts and annual report, appointment of Trustees and decisions on any resolutions. 

The Agenda for the AGM will be issued at least two weeks prior to the meeting. All papers for the AGM and related information will be published online. We are delighted to announce that there will be a guest speaker joining us. 

The quorum for the AGM is twenty-five members of at least 12 months’ standing. Individual and Certified members and the representatives of organisational, partner or sponsoring members have one vote each (Associate Members are not eligible to vote).

Deadline for resolutions

Any resolutions for consideration at the AGM, should be marked “AGM” and arrive by 5:00 PM on Wednesday, 22 October 2025. Items may be submitted to Susan Martin, Chief Executive, via ceo@alt.ac.uk.

We invite you to the “Training staff to use Digital Assessment Tools”  webinar from The Digital Assessment Special Interest Group on 18th November 14:00 - 15:30. 3 speakers will share the conversations that are taking place at their institutions around the challenges and opportunities of Training staff to use Digital Assessment Tools”, under such themes as:

• Examples of when you have trained individual or groups of staff members to use digital assessment tools
• Commentaries on training and development in digital assessment technologies
• Approaches to institutional/ departmental training for digital assessment/ digital assessment tools
• Approaches to training and development for the scaling of digital assessment tools from a trial to an institutional level of use.
• Case studies of digital assessment tool implementation and change
• Research on staff training for the use of digital assessment tools.

Following the presentations you are invited to stay to take part in an open discussion on this topic where you can share your thoughts, concerns and progress in the area of digital assessment creation.

This webinar is the second in a series that will explore the different parts of the assessment process including:

• Marking and feedback of digital assessments
• Digital exams
• Student voice and digital assessments

Calls for speakers for this session are still open, if you are interested in speaking at this event, please complete the Google form by 17 October 2025. 

Speakers will be announced shortly via the Digital Assessment SIG mailing list.

Join the mailing list to be kept updated on this and other SIG events.

 

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A UNIVERSITY RETHINKS STUDENT ENGAGEMENT?

Dear ALT

When the University of Leeds set out to transform how students interact in
class, they didn’t just tweak the system, they reimagined it.

On Wednesday, 8 October 2025, at 3:30 PM, join Farzana Latif and Stuart
Robinson from the University of Leeds for a behind-the-scenes look at how
they reshaped engagement across campus.  [...]

The pedagogically and ethically sound uses of AI within education are not straightforward. AI can save time and effort, and can find, manipulate and share content but these are both problematic, focussing learning on content rather than other ways of learning and failing to respond to the diversity, culture and agency of learners. This session will equip colleagues to appreciate these issues and argue for alternatives.

CPD Webinar Host: 

  John Traxler

Private universities are increasingly shaping the global higher education landscape, with distance education playing a key role in their expansion. While research has explored institutional and policy factors influencing private higher education, the role of student satisfaction within this framework remains underexamined. This study addresses this gap by analysing the success factors of private distance universities from a student perspective. Utilising text mining on over 10,000 student reviews from a public rating platform, a co-occurrence network analysis identified key themes linked to student satisfaction. The findings reveal that private distance universities successfully fulfil the core psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness, as outlined in Self-Determination Theory. Flexible study structures, accessible digital learning environments, and effective student support systems emerged as crucial factors. These insights align with international research, emphasising that distance education facilitates self-directed learning but requires robust institutional support to foster competence and engagement. This study contributes to the field of higher education and distance learning research by demonstrating the impact of technology-enhanced learning environments on student satisfaction. It calls for comparative studies between private and public distance universities, underscoring the need for longitudinal analyses of evolving student expectations and digital education models in a global context.

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​​​​​What happens when a university rethinks student engagement?

When the University of Leeds set out to transform how students interact in class, they didn’t just tweak the system, they reimagined it.

 

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DON’T MISS OUT. FINAL CALL TO JOIN US ON TUESDAY

There’s still time, but not much.

Join us this TUESDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER for OPEN EDUCATION, AI, AND POPULISM:
REVISITED [4], a one-day online conference building on the energy and
insights of OER25 [5].

This is your last chance to register and be part of a timely, critical
conversation at the intersection of open education, generative AI, and the
politics of openness. [...]

When we first launched the ALT Members’ Digest, it was designed as a simple collation of community news, hence the name. But as ALT has grown, so too has the richness and diversity of our membership.

Join Farzana Latif and Stuart Robinson of the University of Leeds as they unveil the secrets behind a transformative shift in how students engage in class. 

In this must-see live webinar, we will dive into:

• Why Leeds wanted to find a new polling solution

• How they selected a replacement

• How the new platform was implemented across the university

• The significant effects on levels of engagement

Experience the magic live... Vevox (now the campus wide solution at Leeds) will be in action for real-time polls and interactive Q&A during the webinar so you can easily ask questions at any point. 

In this webinar, Jane and Chris we will be joined by Erica Wine from Coventry University who will discuss how her university are approaching the development and use of open educational resources using Sylla. This is an innovative platform empowering libraries to advance open & affordable educational resources at scale. Coventry University and Sylla are working together to enable academics and module leads to easily discover and adopt high quality Open Educational Resources (OERs) to support their teaching and benefit all students, ensuring they have free access to essential learning content.

This October, the ALT Annual Conference (ALTC25) returns to Glasgow for two unforgettable days of inspiration, connection, and innovation in learning technology.

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MONTHLY ALT NEWS - ISSUE 049, SEPTEMBER 2025

 

WELCOME TO YOUR MONTHLY NEWS UPDATE FROM THE LEADING PROFESSIONAL BODY FOR
LEARNING TECHNOLOGY IN THE UK.

We support a collaborative community for individuals and organisations from
all sectors, and provide professional recognition and development. Each
month, we will update you on latest news and publications, events,
jobs, and calls for proposals from across the learning technology
community.   [...]

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Applications are now open for members who are interested in joining ALT’s Board as either a Vice-Chair or a Trustee.  

We are entering a new chapter in ALT’s governance, and this announcement marks an important milestone in shaping the organisation’s future leadership.

Following the conclusion of this year’s competitive peer review, we’re pleased to announce that the draft programme for ALTC25 is now available.

The shortlist for the ALT Awards 2025 is now live, spotlighting exceptional achievements in learning technology. Selected by an expert judging panel, this year’s finalists represent the very best in innovation, impact, and excellence across the sector.

Subheading: We warmly invite all ALT Members to cast their vote for this year's Community Choice Award before 23:59 BST on 14 September 2025.

ARLT SIG presents 'In Conversation' with Matthew Johnson.
Date: Tuesday 8th April 2025
Time: 4pm-5:30pm GMT (to be inclusive of our overseas members)
Format: Online Event
 
This online event is hosted by the antiracism and learning technology special interest group (ARLT SIG) as part of a series on ‘Tackling racism in the Education and EdTech sector’. Matthew Johnson, the CEO of Race on the Agenda, one of Britain's leading anti-racist change drivers, joins us to explore how we can tackle systemic racism in the Education and EdTech sector. We explore little changes and big changes required to ensure racially equitable and just technology-enabled education. Subsequently, questions and comments will be welcomed from the audience.

About the Speaker
Matthew Johnson is an experienced policy and research professional who has worked at both the grassroots (community and third sector) and structural levels (governmental and multilateral). He has gained extensive experience working with NGOs, government and academic institutions both in the UK and internationally. This includes supporting capacity development in parastatal organisations in areas of monitoring and evaluation; while advising on innovative programmes in partnership with multilateral institutions such as UNICEF.