Our 2020 Online Winter Conference was a great success, and we would like to say a huge thank you to all who participated in the event. We had a record number of participants, and a fantastic selection of sessions.
We are currently recruiting for two roles in our home-based staff team at the leading professional body for Learning Technology in the UK (registered charity 1160039).
Find out more about working with us and how to apply https://www.alt.ac.uk/about-alt/work-us .
Have you thought about becoming a Member of the Association for Learning Technology, the leading professional body for Learning Technologists? We offer different membership options, including membership for individuals, or memberships for organisations. Our community welcomes everyone who is actively involved in understanding, managing, researching, supporting or enabling learning with the use of Learning Technology.
Since we launched the Open Covid Pledge for Education, more than 100 open educators and more than 40 organisations have pledged to share their knowledge to support the educational response to COVID-19.
It’s a wonderful expression of solidarity in the face of enormous challenges. But what does an open pledge really mean, and what could it achieve?
Associate Professor Thomas Cochrane, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Cochrane.t@unimelb.edu.au
Associate Professor James Birt, Faculty of Society and Design, Bond University, Australia. jbirt@bond.edu.au
Everyone working in Learning Technology plays a vital role in education, especially in times of a global pandemic. As the leading professional body for Learning Technology in the UK, ALT has organised the Summer Summit to champion the work of our community and to share useful resources to help with the start of the next academic year.
This blog post is a preamble to my session at the ALT 2020 Online Summit on what we can learn from UX principles for making more accessible and inclusive learning experiences. It outlines some of the key concepts and gives background for thinking about them.
‘President’ is a loaded term, but my Tweets are of a higher standard than that American one, so I think it’s ok. My first ALT conference was in 2004. I remember it was at Exeter University and that I didn’t know what I was doing. Since then I’ve learnt a few things and the ALT community and events have been an extremely important to me. The conference was where I connected with the first people outside of my office.
This is a statement by the Information Literacy Group, a special interest group of the CILIP, the library and information association. Our members come from a range of backgrounds, including significant numbers of librarians and knowledge specialists within Higher and Further Education Institutions, schools, and the health and voluntary sectors.
In the light of the coronavirus pandemic, education has been rapidly transformed by the increasing necessity to deliver remote learning and teaching, and consequently, online assessment practices. Assessment, either formative or summative, is an integral part of teaching and learning, and that holistic approach demands alignment of tools and modes of education experience and delivery, and continuity of technological support from the beginning to an end of the course.