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This blog will no longer be updated. Instead we will use the update features of our new web site at http://www.alt.ac.uk/ to provide updates about the ALT conference. To stay in touch with ALT and with the ALT conference, please...
At the closing deadline around 250 submissions for inclusion in the ALT-C 2011 conference programme had been received. This number will increase somewhat as the stragglers (including a small number of people who'd agreed small extensions before the deadline) submit....
Final call for proposals and deadline extension Here is the call for proposals for full proceedings papers, demonstrations, symposia, workshops, short papers, and short presentations (ePosters) at the conference. The abstract submission system is live and will close on 2...
Karen Cator will be a keynote speaker at the 2011 ALT Conference. Karen is Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to this she was head of Apple's leadership and advocacy efforts in...
Here is the 10 December 2010 call for proposals for full proceedings papers, demonstrations, symposia, workshops, short papers, and short presentations (ePosters) at the conference. The call closes on 21 February 2011.
Here are the results of the ALT-C 2010 Best Paper Award the Best Poster Awards, and of the 2010 ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Award. Winner of the Award for the ALT-C 2010 Best Proceedings Paper 0188 "An analysis...
There are links to PDFs of the main conference documents (Introduction and Abstracts, Proceedings, Programme Guide, and New to ALT and attending ALT-C?) on the ALT Open Access Repository.
Below is the almost full text of the final delegate email sent earlier today. - Seb Schmoller Dear ALT-C 2010 participant, This is the third and hopefully final communication to you in advance of ALT-C 2010 to help you get...
Here are the sessions where changes have been made, in case you need to alter the sessions for which you've signed up. 1. Briefing for session chairs (new - 18.45 Monday) http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/talks/15350 2. Development through change (11.30 Tuesday - short...
Later today (25/8/2010) we will publish some timetable changes. Invited Speaker Sudhir Giri will now speak at 17.10 on Tuesday 7 September, rather than at 10.30 on Thursday 9 September. A couple of errors in the allocation of short papers...
We have published the interactive timetable for the conference. Conference delegates, once logged into the site, can create a personal schedule for the whole event, as well as seeing who else has chosen to attend which sessions.
The ALT-C 2010 CrowdVine networking site at http://altc2010.alt.ac.uk/ is now available. Conference delegates who create an account using the email address they provided when they booked to attend the conference should be able to use the account without approval by...
Thursday, 12 August 2010 Today we extended the final booking deadline for ALT-C 2010 to Thursday, 19 August. From Monday 16 August credit/debit card payments will be preferred with conference handbooks to be collected on arrival at the conference, if...
Here is a list of all eight invited speakers and the topics and timings of their talks. Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor, University of Salford will speak about "How universities can incorporate the collision between informal education and social networking, and the...
We've made some small adjustments to the programme and updated the PDF timetable accessible from http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2010/timetable.html. Specifically: David White, Senior Manager: Development with Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning (TALL) at the University of Oxford, will speak on "How online distance learning could...
Updated 23/10/2009 with link to video of Jonathan Drori's "Being mighty: how mortals can make learning technology projects that cause real impact" Below you will find links to each of the three keynote speeches and to eight of the nine invited speaker sessions. All of them are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales license. As other assets become available we will link to them. Jonathan Drori - Direct... [read more]
The Videos and Elluminate Live! Session for the Keynote and Invited Speakers at ALT-C 2009 can now be accessed from http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2009/keynotes.html.
My pictures are up here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/josiefraser/sets/72157622339065464/ Haven't had time to title or tag then yet - please do feel free to help out by adding tags of names, events etc :) Also - if you spot a photo I've put up of you that you'd rather I took down, don't hesitate to let me know. Best, J
by Derek Morrison, 13 September 2009 Here is the second of the recordings of my interviews with contributors and some delegates at ALT-C 2009; this time a discussion with Seb Schmoller about ALT and his thoughts for its future (MP3,11.7MB, ~25 minutes). My apologies for the delay in posting this one but I wanted Seb to have a chance to listen to it first and, as we know, he has been a busy busy man :)
Dear colleagues who have agreed to 'report' ALT-C: Thanks for agreeing to write your impressions of the conference. I won't be there until Wednesday lunch-time but it would be great to meet up some time to discuss our approaches to this enjoyable (I hope) task, which I have agreed to coordinate. Can we meet at the ALT desk at 17:15 on Wednesday? Sorry this is impersonal - your details are somewhere in profoundest France... All the best - and enjo... [read more]
I was only at parts of ALT-C but enjoyed it enormously. The event was extremely well-organised and ran very smoothly in excellent venues. Once again a triumph for the hard-working and cheerful ALT staff and volunteers. Well done! PS I can't wait for the Liverpool ALT-C.. in two thousand and...?
If anyone cannot find our presentation please look for; http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/posts/edit/6302701 Thanks
as promised here is the slideset for the paper given today. thanks for the interest and Asher and I would love to hear your thoughts on our attempts to map the sociocultural profile of academic staff in relation to TEL. Tread softly in the mainstream faculty - value their fears and concerns, it will repay you - don't think they will go away...
Wednesday 9 September. Heres a link to the Agile Curriculum interactive poster. http://www.spicynodes.org/a/4504088a939a7514fbd782efb432a2db We would be very interested to receive further ideas about the challenges outlined here and good ways to make the outcomes of the projects usable for you. You can respond here or via Twitter using the tags #dcb09 and #cdd.
by Derek Morrison, 9 September 2009 Here is the fourth of my podcast offerings based on my interview with people attending ALT-C 2009. In this 17 minute podcast I've interviewed Heather Fry, Head of Learning and Teaching for HEFCE about the contrasting emphases of the 2005 and 2009 editions of the 'e' strategy and tried to glean some insights about current H'e' thinking from someone situated at the national policy level (7.8MB, MP3). Did I succee... [read more]
by Derek Morrison, 9 September 2009 Here is the third of my podcast offerings based on my interview with people attending ALT-C 2009. In this podcast we hear the perspectives and, I think, some valuable insights offered by a group of colleagues from the FE, Work-based learning, and Adult and Community Learning sector. As before this is the rush of the podcast (12MB, MP3). When I get some more time I may edit it down into "information objects" for... [read more]
There are always some things I now take with me when I attend ALT-C which I find useful. 6 way gang - instead of fighting people for the power sockets, you can immediately make five friends! Also useful when you are back in your hotel room (halls) and need to charge the laptop, the phone, the iPod, use the hairdryer, etc... Make sure it has been PAT tested! Coffee - I can't stand instant coffee, so I take some of those Coffee Bags you can buy or ... [read more]
Hedtek is demoing the Manchester Personal Learning Environment, mPLE, alongside the ALT-C conference. Please see http://bit.ly/mPLE-demo for details of times, locations, and an introduction to mPLE. Briefly, the demos are on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, during the blue-row sessions in the conference timetable. Demos are in the Kilburn Building (NB not the Kilburn Room NB), next to the conference location. These are not official conference ev... [read more]
The following item can also be found on www.auricle.org. (by Derek Morrison, 8 September 2009) For ALT-C 2009, ALT's Seb Schmoller asked me and a few other long term 'e' commentators and bloggers attending or presenting at the conference if we would take part in a bit of an experiment by also assuming a 'journalistic' role (with editorial control remaining in our own hands). So to start the ball rolling, last night I interviewed the keynote speak... [read more]
Here are the slides for this paper, which looks at some of the tensions in object reuse. These may arise between the logical systems/hierarchical view/assumptions around the generic nature of content by resource managers, and the desire for creativity and personalisation of content by the individual delivering the course/module. Please come and listen or contact me after ALT-C if this research area interests you. Carmel
I'm interested in meeting up anyone using popular digital technologies such as Second Life, Facebook or Twitter (in fact any digital technologies, hardware or software, that have a widespread appeal) in teaching and learning - as opposed to those technologies that are just purely educational or institutional such as e-portfolios or VLEs. I'm interested because if people are using them for teaching and learning then there must also be people resea... [read more]
