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Annual Conference 2018: Call for Proposals extended to 26 March

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For ALT’s 25th Annual Conference, we will bring together different critical perspectives in Learning Technology from across our community that will examine the challenges ahead and question the shape of things to come.

Call now extended to 26 March 2018

We now invite you to submit a proposal under one of the following themes:

Join the 2018 Annual Conference Committee

For ALT’s 25th Annual Conference we will bring together different critical perspectives in Learning Technology from across our community that will examine the challenges ahead and question the shape of things to come.

We are putting our values into practice and Members at the heart of the conference, so in this spirit the event will be chaired collaboratively by the Trustees of ALT, led by Sheila MacNeill and Martin Weller.

Preview of conference themes:

Listen to ALT on the EdTech Podcast

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This year the EdTech podcasts is one of the supporters of ALT's Annual Conference and in the run up to the event in September,  ALT's chief executive Maren Deepwell joined host Sophie Bailey to talk about what is going on across the community and the work of the Association. The conversation also features highlights of this year's conference programme and shout-outs to practitioners and bloggers #altc. 

Call for proposals for OER17

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We are delighted to announce that the #OER17: The Politics of Open call for proposals has now been published. The 8th Open Educational Resources Conference, OER17: The Politics of Open, will be held from 5 to 6 April 2017 at Resource for London, UK. The deadline for proposals is on midday GMT Wednesday, 16 November 2016.  The conference themes for submission this year are:

An Edinburgh festival of open education: Celebrating open culture in Scotland and across the globe

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OER16: Open Culture will take place 19-20 April at the University of Edinburgh. The vision for the conference is to focus on the value proposition of embedding open culture in the context of institutional strategies for learning, teaching and research.

Melissa Highton, Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services at the University of Edinburgh, says:

Get involved in the 2015 ALT Online Winter Conference

Following from last year's first Winter Conference in Edinburgh this year we're moving online in December to showcase some of the best Learning Technology from ALT Members, individuals and organisations from across sectors.

It's free to participate, but you can also make a financial contribution to support the event and help us continue to run open events for the community.

Early call for expressions of interest in Chairing the 2015 ALT Conference

ALT's Trustees are seeking an experienced Chair (or up to 3 Co-Chairs) for the 2015 Conference Programme Committee and its executive, who will play a major role in planning and delivery of ALT's 22nd annual conference in 2015. For information about previous and current ALT conferences, see
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc

We are looking to appoint a person (or two people) with the following qualities:

ALT exhibits at Online Educa Berlin

ALT will exhibit at Online Educa Berlin 2012, the 18th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning & Training. We will be at stand A32b and would like to encourage any ALT Members attending the event to come by and visit the stand.

Venue
Hotel InterContinental Berlin
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n/a
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