conference

We are seeking experienced Co-Chairs for the 2020 Conference Committee of the 11th Open Education Conference, who will play a major role in planning and delivery of the conference in 2020. For information about previous OER conferences please visit https://oer19.oerconf.org/ . The conference format evolves each year to keep pace with the changing expectations and priorities of participants and speakers, but its core values around Open Education remain strong.

Registration is now open for the 10th annual conference for Open Education Research, which will take place in Galway between 10-11 April, click to register now.

For OER19, we will continue to engage with current, key open education debates, including looking at who open education is helping, how it fits within the whole open arena, how we can learn from previous perceptions of open and how the money is being made.

We have now published further information about exhibiting at the conference or becoming a conference sponsor.

Become a sponsor

We are now offering exclusive sponsorship opportunities for organisations who want to support the event, engage with ~500 learning technology professionals from across sectors and share our community values. We offer Member organisations a 20% discount on all sponsorship packages, so if you aren’t already a member, join today.

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:

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:

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. 

The Call for Proposals is now open and the deadline has been extended to Midnight BST, Monday 27 March 2017. Submit your ideas for a poster, lightening talk, presentation, panel, demo, workshop... or make a wildcard submission. You can view it as a Google Doc or download a PDF.

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: