policy

We are currently collating evidence from ALT Members to respond to the Department for Education's Call for Evidence on Generative artificial intelligence in education. The Call is open now until 23 August 2023 and we encourage our Members and Member Institutions across all sectors of education and training to respond. Collectively, our voices are stronger, and we are seeking to include references to your responses and evidence in ALT's submission to show just how important an area for policy, research and practice this is. 

Following the publication of revised conditions of registration relating to the quality of courses which came into force on 1 May 2022, the Office for Students (OfS) announced a review of blended learning in higher education.

The past two years have highlighted the urgent need to level up learning, especially in Further and Vocational Education and Training. How can we help a workforce that is already stretched and coping with much uncertainty? 

For the return of the Annual Conference to Manchester, UK, from 6-8 September 2022, we will bring together different critical perspectives from across our community that will examine the challenges ahead and question the shape of things to come. 

In October a joint statement on access to e-book and e-textbook content was published by SCONUL in conjunction with the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), the #ebooksSOS campaign, Jisc, the National Acquisitions Group (NAG), Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and the UK purchasing consortia APUC and SUPC.

We are seeking experienced Co-Chairs for the 2022 Conference Committee of the 13th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy. The Co-Chairs will play a major role in planning and delivery of the conference in 2022.

We are making good progress with the work to develop an ethical framework for professional pratice in Learning Technology.

Our working group now has 60+ members including learners and representation from industry and continues to be led by ALT's Trustees Bella Abrams, Sharon Flynn and Natalie Lafferty.

OERxDomains Conference

Online - 21-22 April 2021

Organised by the Association for Learning Technology and partnership with Reclaim Hosting’s Domains Conference, this special edition of the much loved event is the 12th annual conference for Open Education research, practice and policy. We are proud to incorporate a special strand hosted by the Domains Conference - bringing our two communities closer together in 2021.