Category: Educational Technology
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Make the magic happen: ALT Annual Conference 2025 – Day 1
Motivational and a celebration of our professional community. That’s my initial reaction to Day 1 of the Association for Learning Technology Annual Conference 2025 in Glasgow. With all the uncertainty in our sector, I am thankful that we have come together to acknowledge the value of our profession and our collective desire to be responsive…
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Humanising digital education: ALT Annual Conference 2024 – Day 3
Initial reflections and summary of sessions from Day 3 of the ALT Annual Conference, Manchester, 3-5 September 2024. Humanising the approach to learning technology has come through as a theme this year. Starting with Chris Friend’s keynote, followed by discussions about learners’ personalisation and spaces of learning in breakout sessions, and on the final day…
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Connected conversations: ALT Annual Conference 2024 – Day 2
Initial reflections and summary of sessions from Day 2 of the ALT Annual Conference, Manchester, 3-5 September 2024. The common theme I extracted from the day is about purposefully connected digital education. This is not just about connecting learners and connecting spaces, but also connecting the curriculum to professional skills through the use of technology. Student…
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Visions of the future: ALT Annual Conference 2024 – Day 1
Initial reflections and summary of sessions from Day 1 of the ALT Annual Conference, Manchester, 3-5 September 2024. Humanising digital education Opening keynote, Chris Friend’s three aspects of humane education (policies, places and platforms) offer lenses on the challenges and opportunities the arise from decision-making over how, when and why educational technology is used. For…
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AI and higher education: skills, humans and educational experiences
Opinion piece. When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on education, it’s fair to say we’re currently in the murky waters of the unknown, trying to make sense of change and any level of certainty is ill-founded. The current context and rapid pace of change doesn’t offer much in terms of evidence…
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Early-career learning technologists professional development: What is the role of a learning technologist?
This month, for the Early-Career Learning Technologist professional development group on LinkedIn, which I coordinate with Daniel Scott and Sandra Huskinson, our starter posts are on the theme of ‘the role of the learning technologist’. What is already apparent is that the role definition of a learning technologist can be very broad, and has been…
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Scaling up online learning during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic
As universities begin to mitigate against risks posed by coronavirus (Covid-19), with some such as Durham and LSE indicating a complete shut-down of face-to-face teaching, online learning is coming to the foreground as a route for continuing business as usual. In this post, I’ll look back briefly at a similar situation ten years ago with…
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BETT 2020 Review – A learning technologist’s perspective
I managed to get to #BETT2020 for the Friday afternoon. It’s only my second time going to BETT, the massive expo for educational technologies and the like, even though I’ve been a learning technologist for quite some time now. I go in knowing that BETT is geared up for schools, and FE/HE/professional education providers are…
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Learning harder, for longer
Opinion piece. Open online learning has a huge part to play in addressing the skills and education needs of a growing population, a workforce requiring re-skilling and economies shifting as a result of technological developments. It is no surprise then that one of the topics of discussion at the FutureLearn Partners’ Forum, kicked off by…