#altcSummit

Championing Learning Technologists at a time of crisis, care and complexity - ALT’s Summer Summit 2020

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. 

Guest Post: 'Can we afford not to think about affordances? Usability lessons from the ecological psychology of design'...by Dominik Lukes

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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.

Guest Post: 'E-assessment evangelism: Sure-fire strategies for onboarding students and staff'...by Anja Sisarica

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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.