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"ALT comment on the Higher Education Funding Council for England's Strategy Statement "Opportunity, choice and excellence in higher education" Schmoller, Seb and Slater, John (2011) ALT comment on the Higher Education Funding Council for England's Strategy Statement "Opportunity, choice and excellence in higher education". ALT. (Unpublished)"

"The ALT News Blog is created by the membership for the membership. It includes short, topical entries from ALT members and invited pieces from experts in the field help keep us all up to date with developments in learning technology. Comments allow feedback and discussion from ALT members. Writing for the blog gives you the opportunity to disseminate your work, share something you are excited about, explore a common problem, or express an opinion. You can contribute as much or as little as you like."

The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) today published its response to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)'s proposals for the new Research Excellence Framework (REF), urging HEFCE to adopt clear guidelines to ensure that inter

Nine guides written on technology enhanced learning initially by the authors listed below. Nearly all are current or recent members of the ALT Research Committee.

ALT MOOC

Probably quite a lot!

Announcement - Research in Learning Technology - Open Access from 2012 From January 2012 our journal will be fully Open Access, produced in partnership with the Swedish publisher Co-Action Publishing. We are about to complete negotiations on the new publi

"Lecture Capture - Sometimes it's better to be heard…and not seen"

"At the ALT C conference I went to a few sessions where VLE discussion came up, most notably Lawrie Phipps and Donna Lanclos's session "Are learning technologies fit for purpose?". They asked us to reflect on the main question in groups and nearly all of the discussions came back to complaints about the VLE. Lawrie picked on me to give the first response and I mentioned that the problem was not so much the technology but the "institutional sediment" that builds up around it. "

"On 24 April 2015 forty educators from 19 institutions discussed key issues in MOOC design and implementation at a one-day workshop hosted and funded by the University of Reading, a leading member of the FutureLearn MOOC consortium. The workshop offered the opportunity to evaluate practical lessons from the design and delivery of MOOCs, particularly those encouraging skills development. The focus was on problem-based discussion of approaches to teaching and learning, and the extent to which MOOC learning outcomes can be defined, measured, or achieved."

The Mobile Learning infoKit is a developing resource from JISC infoNet launched at ALT-C 2011 alongside the new JISC publication Emerging Practice in a Digital Age (September 2011). Augmenting the Emerging Practice guide, this infoKit is a practical guide

"For the vast majority of us the smartphone is a benign device; a wireless tool not primarily used for voice communications any more but better suited as a multimedia device designed both as an entertainment device and for mobile productivity. Most would

Lots of e-learning related conference around the world over the next year or so. Get those papers in :-)

eReturn - using ePortfolios to support women returners to employment

"Since 2006, academics at the University of Surrey have been using a 'clicker' based Electronic Voting System (EVS) to engage students and promote interaction in their classrooms. Although the system has served the University well its reliance on proprietary hardware has limited wider adoption. An issue for students was the need to book clickers out from library services and carry additional electronic devices around (not to mention the prospect of incurring a fine if they lost them). For staff, getting the USB 'dongles' (receivers) to pick up the signal from the clickers at the beginning of the lecture was a concern. The time and resources required to manage and distribute clickers and dongles were a further consideration, as were long-term maintenance costs for the institution."