ALT's chief executive, Dr Maren Deepwell, one of the original members of the FELTAG Action Group under Minister Matthew Hancock, will today contribute a special keynote to the Inside Government event FELTAG 2017: Embracing Digital Technology in Further Education .
Learning Technology plays an ever more central role in education at all levels. With this comes the need to measure excellence in this field and determine what good practice looks like.
ALT has been sharing, disseminating and promoting knowledge and best practice since 1993, helping to inform the appropriate and effective use of technology for learning, teaching and assessment.
CMALT, ALT’s Certified Membership scheme, is a peer-based professional accreditation scheme developed by ALT to enable people whose work involves learning technology to:
have their experience and capabilities certified by peers
demonstrate that they are taking a committed and serious approach to their professional development.
Incorporating digital learning into teaching is becoming ever more important in all areas of education. We are excited to announce that the well-received Blended Learning Essentials course for the Vocational Education and Training sector, commissioned by the Ufi Charitable Trust, will be offered again this year.
Blended Learning Essentials is an open course for Vocational Education and Training funded by the Ufi Trust and delivered on Futurelearn.
This week we are seeing the start of the Futurelearn course Blended Learning Essentials: Getting started - A free course for the Vocational Education and Training sector to promote effective practice and pedagogy in blended learning. The course is open to all and by the end of the course, you’ll be able to:
use a range of effective blended learning practices and pedagogies to improve your learners’ experience and attainment
This week sees the Annual Conference, #ilta2016, of the Irish Learning Technology Association. The conference brings together the Irish community and international delegates to share practice and research and celebrate the Jennifer Burke Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. Much of the conference is accessible online via the conference website http://ilta.ie/edtech/edtech-2016/ .
ALT is looking to appoint up to three new members to the CMALT Development Group (CDG) for September 2013. We are particularly encouraging expressions of interest from individuals based outside the UK and those who have a background in Further Education and Adult Learning.
The CMALT Development Group was formed in 2010 to take an active part in the supporting of the scheme, its development and in directing activities for the CMALT community. The remit of the CDG is centred around the following activities: