Pathways to CMALT (Certified Membership of ALT) is a major project to expand the CMALT accreditation framework and establish new ways to recognise and reward career development and  recently published findings from ALT’s Annual Survey show that ‘staff development opportunities’ and ‘recognition for career development’ are increasingly recognised as key drivers for the use of learning technology.

The work of the committee is coordinated by the Co-Chairs and we meet together online to review progress and make plans. We have now updated the conference website with information about upcoming committee activities.

If you are part of the committee, we invite you to take part in the first virtual meeting later this month:

Meeting 1: Academic programme
12.30 (UK time), Thursday, 29 March 2018
Chair: Sheila...

Over the past three years, I have been working with colleagues to develop a series of [Subject]on theBox blogs, promoting the use of the TV and radio archive Box of Broadcasts in discipline-specific teaching. At the present time BiologyOnTheBox is the best established site, with...

For the last couple of years we’ve had some wonderful artwork shared by delegates (see material from OER16 and OER17). Following a suggestion from one of our committee member’s, Anne-Marie Scott, we’ve setup a crowd-sourced photo repository for OER18 at https://oer18.oerconf.org/media/. Photos can be uploaded, tagged with appropriate usage license and description, and then added to a public image gallery. As well as...

We are pleased to announce that the full programme for #oer18 is now online!  It features all workshops and presentations and highlights the diverse and far reaching nature of this years conference. Visit the programme page to start exploring.

Registration for the conference is still open and single day tickets are an option if there is something in the programme you’d particularly like to participate in. To join us in Bristol for 18-19 April find out more about registration....

While open educational practices are slowly becoming an embedded part of the higher education landscape globally, there is still a long way to go before we can consider them as mainstream in Canada, or North America in general. Around the world, the open movement is growing, driven by the many dedicated individuals who truly, madly, deeply believe in the benefits of open access to knowledge and education. Yet, the majority of our colleagues (and senior administrators) still seem to have very little awareness of the potential, or even existence of, open educational resources. Those who are...