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Since we launched the Open Covid Pledge for Education, more than 100 open educators and more than 40 organisations have pledged to share their knowledge to support the educational response to COVID-19.
It’s a wonderful expression of solidarity in...
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Associate Professor Thomas Cochrane, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Cochrane.t@unimelb.edu.au
Associate Professor James Birt, Faculty of Society and Design, Bond...
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...
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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...
‘President’ is a loaded term, but my Tweets are of a higher standard than that American one, so I think it’s ok. My first ALT conference was in 2004. I remember it was at Exeter University and that I didn’t know what I was doing. Since then I’ve...
This is a statement by the Information Literacy Group, a special interest group of the CILIP, the library and information association. Our members come from a range of backgrounds, including significant numbers of librarians and knowledge...
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...
Closing date: 15 September 2020
Research in Learning Technology (RLT) is the peer reviewed, Open Access journal published by the Association for Learning Technology. RLT aims to raise the profile of research in learning technology, encouraging...
We are delighted to announce that a number of free scholarship places are still available for the Online Summer Summit this year, thanks to our first Scholarship Sponsor, Vevox. The deadline for applications has now been extended to 14 August 2020...
The Communities of Practice project is led by the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) and funded by Ufi - the VocTech Trust. The project goal is to establish a successful ‘community of practice’ (CoP) where vocational teaching staff are able...