Following the huge popularity of ALTC Radio at last year's Annual Conference, we're really pleased to be able to offer you the chance to listen again to some of the most popular shows. Starting from Friday 17th January, Friday afternoons will offer the ALTC Radio Replay via the Thursday Night Show platform.

Day Time Duration Show title Act(s) 17/01/25 13:00 - 15:00 120 Manchester Breakfast Take-off Dom Pates, Julie Voce & Puiyin Wong 17/01/25 15:00 - 16:00 60 Cover to Cover Colin Simpson 24/01/25 13:00 - 13:30 30 Listener Requests Dom Pates & Lawrie Phipps 24/01/25 13:30 - 14:30 60 Hosts Corner Dianne Bennett & Scott Farrow 24/01/25 14:30 - 15:00 30 You've Got A Friend In Me Puiyin Wong & Jo Eliot 24/01/25 15:00 - 16:00 60 Exploring Current Trends in Motion Graphics and Virtual Reality Shane Cronin 31/01/25 13:00 - 14:00 60 The Rat Race! Choons & Chat to Ease You Back to Work DJ Wafflemeister & MC Hermit 31/01/25 14:00 - 15:00 60 Coco's Classic Bubblegum Jukebox Coco 31/01/25 15:00 - 16:00 60 Know Your Product - Memory, Music and Unforgotten Times Peter Bryant 07/02/25 13:00 - 14:00 60 The Old EdTech Mansion Dom Pates & eLearningTechie 07/02/25 14:00 - 15:00 60 Digital Assessment Tool Research: Remastered Gemma Westwood, Helen Greetham & Alison Gibson 07/02/25 15:00 - 16:00 60 Paul Hollins Rewind Mark Childs & Paul Hollins 14/02/25 13:00 - 13:30 30 Meet The New CEO Susan Martin & Puiyin Wong 14/02/25 13:30 - 14:30 60 Teen Angst (What The World Needs Right Now) Donna Lanclos & Peter Bryant 14/02/25 14:30 - 15:00 30 Thesis Tunes Anasuya Sharma 14/02/25 15:00 - 16:00 60 Journey to the Centre of Learning Technology Notorious P.I.P. 21/02/25 13:00 - 14:00 60 Learning Design Lessons from Taylor Swift Zoe Moutsopoulos 21/02/25 14:00 - 15:00 60 How Green Is My EdTech? Dom Pates, Irina Niculescu, Geraldine Foley & Roger Rees 21/02/25 15:00 - 16:00 60 Award Winners Interviews Dave White et al 28/02/25 13:00 - 14:00 60 Hosts Corner Dianne Bennett & Scott Farrow 28/02/25 14:00 - 14:30 30 Accessibility Beyond ALT-Text and Live Captions Puiyin Wong, James Allen & Tamsyn Smith 28/02/25 14:30 - 15:00 30 ALT Digital Accessibility SIG Julian Tenney, Sylwia Frankowska-Takhari, Tharindu Liyanagunawardena, Amy Low & Gavin Henrick 28/02/25 15:00 - 16:00 60 We're So Bored With AI Now, Can We Talk About Something Else? Puiyin Wong & John Brindle 07/03/25 13:00 - 15:00 120 Sonic Insights: The Learning Technologist's Playlist Mark Childs & co 07/03/25 15:00 - 16:00 60 Cover to Cover Colin Simpson 14/03/25 13:00 - 14:00 60 Music For EdTech Experts (with Tom Wambeke) Steven Verjans & Tom Wambeke 14/03/25 14:00 - 15:00 60 Music For EdTech Experts (with Corinne Weisgerber) Steven Verjans & Corinne Weisgerber 14/03/25 15:00 - 16:00 60 Music For EdTech Experts (with Sally Reynolds) Steven Verjans & Sally Reynolds

This webinar will be led by the team at Kings College London. More information to follow soon.

This online webinar is hosted by the antiracism and learning technology special interest group (ARLT SIG) as part of a series on ‘antiracism in learning technology and design’. In the webinar, Dr Gurnam Singh will talk about approaches to anti racism in learning design and/or technology, followed by a series of questions exploring approaches to decolonising learning design and learning technologies. Questions and comments will also be welcomed from the audience.

Dr Gurnam Singh has over 30 years’ experience in research and teaching in Higher Education in various academic roles incorporating, teaching and research. He has contributed significantly to the field of social work and higher education policy and practice. Before joining academia, he worked for 10 years as a professional social worker and training and development officer with Bradford Social Services.

We look forward to welcoming you to this webinar at 12-1:30pm on Wednesday 29th January 2025.

This is a closed webinar for ALT CoOL SIG members and copyright specialists who wish to share their views about the upcoming government consultation on Copyright and AI. It will help people draft a response to the consultation which aligns with others in the sector.

The ALT Assembly meets regularly online and also holds annual face-to-face meetings, usually at ALT's Annual Conference each September.

Agenda: Assembly meetings actively contribute to ALT's current strategic priorities, focused on consulting you, our active Members, on new developments. Thus each meeting will be chaired by a Trustee and focus on a specific theme or topic. Members and Special Interest Groups will be invited to share updates from their groups.

• Link to join the meeting
• ALT Assembly Terms of Reference (2020)

The meeting will run in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. If you have not used Collaborate Ultra before, it may be helpful to consult our webinar FAQs at https://www.alt.ac.uk/events/webinar-faqs. 

If you have any specific questions about the ALT Assembly please contact enquiries@alt.ac.uk

We invite you to the first webinar from The Digital Assessment Special Interest Group, we begin our webinar series with “Generative AI in Digital Assessments”. Where 3 speakers will share the conversations that are taking place at their institutions around the challenges and opportunities of Generative AI in relation to Digital Assessments.

Following the presentations you are invited to stay to take part in an open discussion where members of the SIG can introduce themselves to each other and discuss the areas of focus for this new group.

Our Speakers:

Alison Gibson
Head of Digital Education for Assessment and the College of Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham

Dr Lisa Bradley
Reader in Education at Queen's University Belfast

Nurun Nahar
Assistant Teaching Professor at The University of Bolton

Join us on the 21st of January from 10:00 until 10:45 to explore how this rapidly changing technology is impacting assessment change at these universities.

Stay to take part in the open discussion from 10:45 until 11:30, where we will discuss the areas of focus for the SIG.

Bodyswaps interactive lessons and practice exercises with avatars offer a dynamic way to learn. These simulating real-life scenarios sessions, enabling learners to apply their knowledge in a controlled environment. Engaging with avatars allows learners to practice their skills without the pressure of real-world consequences. 

Come and join Christophe Mallet (CEO and Co-founder of Bodyswaps) and Colin Smith (Bodyswaps user and FE practitioner at Cornwall College) to find out more about how you can use immersive learning through VR to transform educational experiences.

In this session John Brindle, Learning Design Manager at Edge Hill University, will explore programme level design approaches that have been used in his practice at the University. The session will cover tools and techniques for creating safe spaces for collaborative learning design it will explore stakeholder engagement, student participation and managing the environment where people may have competing priorities and opinions on how a programme should be designed.

 

Rooted in critical pedagogies the session will explore how these approaches can be used to support and enhance existing institutional frameworks (in our case the “Taught Degrees Framework”). Participants will have access to the materials we use in our learning design approach for Online and Blended programmes.

 

This CPD event will suit anybody with an interest in learning design and change management.

Join Jane Secker, Chris Morrison and Kathryn Drumm for the final Copyright and Online Learning webinar of 2024. This webinar is a quiz to test your knowledge of the year's happening in the world of copyright. We also throw in some current affairs as well. It's fun, educational and a chance to catch up with the CoOL SIG in our final live session of the year. Prizes may be available, singing and fun and games are a certainty!

Are you a newly certified CMALT holder looking to become an assessor? This webinar is mandatory for all new CMALT assessors and is your first step into the world of CMALT assessment. Existing CMALT assessors who are looking for a refresher are also welcome.

 

This webinar will cover the CMALT framework, the assessment process, and the CMALT assessment system. 

Join us for this webinar to learn about ALT's CMALT accreditation framework. Whether you are curious about what CMALT is, know a little about CMALT but are interested in finding out more or are a registered candidate looking to start writing your portfolio, this webinar is for you.

Registration will close on 15 October 2025 16:00 BST.

Are you a newly certified CMALT holder looking to become an assessor? This webinar is mandatory for all new CMALT assessors and is your first step into the world of CMALT assessment. Existing CMALT assessors who are looking for a refresher are also welcome.

 

This webinar will cover the CMALT framework, the assessment process, and the CMALT assessment system. 

Come along to our Unconference where you set the agenda!

This is your chance to bring along the topics - big or small - you would like to discuss with the group This will be an informal event but will be roughly along these lines

10.30 - 11 Coffee and Add your topics

11-11.30 Welcome and Scheduling

11.30 - 12.30 2 Attendee lead/chosen Sessions

12.30- 1.30 Lunch

1.30 - 2.30 2 Attendee lead/chosen Sessions

2.30 - 3 Summary 3 pm Drinks and/or shopping!

 

Oliver Cakebread-Andrews, doctoral researcher in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton, will be joining the ALT South #TechThursday event on Thursday 28 November. Sarcasm can be difficult to understand, even for native speakers – anyone who has spent any time in the UK will attest to this ;-). It is unsurprising that non-native speakers (NNS) struggle to understand sarcasm. AI-based natural language processing (NLP) models have shown impressive results in handling multimodal data. Are these models able to better understand sarcasm than NNS? We present a comparison study between NLP and NNS and suggest how to improve the sarcasm detection abilities of NNS. The talk is open to everyone.

Accessibility is so important and can't be ignored, yet so often we see inaccessible documents and presentations being used. Integrating accessibility tools not only benefits those students and staff who really need it, but make the experience of navigating and using documents take up less cognitive load for everyone! In this session Stephen Taylor will introduce you to some quick accessibility fixers you can start applying, why you should apply them, and how they will benefit everyone. 

 

Want to learn more about the Digital Learning Design Apprenticeship? This webinar is for anyone who wants to find out more whether you are an employer, learner, or would just like to learn more!

We will welcome Hazel Cray and Matt Bishop from Crosby Training, and Sarah Harris and Frazer Worthington from LDN Apprenticeships, just two of the providers who are currently offering this programme. They will delve into what the DLD apprenticeship is, how it benefits learners and employers, and how you can get involved. We will also hear from some current DLD learners and find out more about their experience so far. 

What is the Digital Learning Design Apprenticeship?

Launched in September 2023, this Level 5 apprenticeship is designed to equip learners with the skills and knowledge needed to become successful digital learning designers. Digital learning design is a rapidly evolving field, with new trends and technologies emerging all the time. ACMALT is mapped to the standard and all apprentices who successfully complete the endpoint assessment will automatically be eligible to become an Associate Certified Member.  

Join AmplifyFE on 13 December from 12.00 - 12.30 for their next webinar: Alternatives to Twitter - BlueSky, LinkedIn, Threads find out how to make the most of these platforms. More details to be announced shortly. 

 

Join us for an engaging M25 Winter Meeting, which will focus on UX/UI design. We will learn how research drives the design process, techniques to identify genuine user needs and dispel assumptions, and how to benchmark and improve your systems. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your skills, follow up on discussions with participants, connect, and collaborate.

We're excited to invite you to our next meeting, taking place on May 22nd at Edge Hill University. This meeting is set to be a dynamic and informative session, with talks on a variety of topics.

Here’s a sneak peek of what’s on the agenda:
1. Digital Assessments: Innovations and Challenges
• Discuss the challenges and best practices for implementing digital assessments in educational settings and learn from case studies.
• Interactive Q&A session with experts in the field.

2. Creating Custom GPT Models: An Educator’s Guide
• Introduction to Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) and their potential in education.
• Step-by-step guide on creating custom GPT models tailored for educational purposes.

3. Networking Sessions
• Opportunity to connect with fellow educators and technology enthusiasts.
• Share experiences, collaborate on projects, and discuss innovative ideas.
• A mix of structured and informal networking activities to maximize engagement.

This meeting promises to be a great platform for learning, sharing, and networking. We look forward to seeing you there and engaging in these exciting topics together!

 

The meeting will be in the Business School (Building 16, ref E4 on the map), room B005 (ground floor). Further information on travelling to campus can be found here, including free bus from Ormskirk Centre next to the train station. https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/locations/