Association for Learning Technology
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The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) is a United Kingdom professional body and scholarly association. ALT brings together people and organizations with an interest in the use of learning technology. ALT was founded in 1993 and is Registered Charity Number 1063519 [1].
Aims
ALT's aims are as follows[2]:
- be an authoritative voice on the place that learning technologists and learning technology have “at the heart of modern learning”;
- support member organisations to achieve their missions more efficiently and cost effectively;
- recognise and acknowledge excellence in professional achievement, research and practice;
- bring together those with shared problems across sectors, technologies, pedagogies, job roles and countries to help to provide research-informed solutions;
- be an agile and transparent organisation, responding quickly and effectively to developments, and espousing open standards and processes;
- remain an independent membership organisation thereby achieving extra reach and leverage.
Membership
ALT has over 200 organisational and sponsoring members, and over 900 individual members[3]. Organisational members include the majority of the UK's universities[4]. Sponsoring members include public sector agencies such as Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Higher Education Academy, and companies such as Blackboard, Google, Microsoft and Toshiba. Individual members are mainly based in UK public sector education. There are three categories of individual member: Associate Member, Ordinary Member, and, under a scheme which has operated since 2005, Certified Member (CMALT).
Publications
- Research in Learning Technology, an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal[5] which aims to raise the profile of research in learning technology, encouraging research that informs good practice and contributes to the development of policy[6];
- a members' digest, which is sent fortnightly to nearly 2000 subscribers [7];
- a quarterly printed and web-based Newsletter available at http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/.
Activities
ALT's activities include the following:
- ALT-C, which is the UK's main conference for learning technologists, see http://www.alt.ac.uk/past_alt-c.html.
- Responding to consultations relating to learning technology and e-learning [8]. Some of these responses are referenced in Government publications [9].
- Workshops and occasional smaller conferences.
- Certification of members under the CMALT scheme, see http://www.alt.ac.uk/cmalt/.
- Working in partnership with other organisations, such as the Association of Colleges[10], JISC, NIACE[11], LSIS, and the TEL Programme [12].
External links
References
- ^ "ALT's details on the Charity Commission website". Retrieved 2012-03-03.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ "ALT 2011-2014 Strategy". Retrieved 2012-03-03.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ "See page 11 of 2010/2011 Annual Report and Accounts for membership numbers" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-03.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ "November 2011 List of Organisational and Sponsoring Members". Retrieved 2012-03-03.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ "Switching to open access for the new year". Retrieved 2012-03-03.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help); Unknown parameter|second=ignored (help) - ^ "Aims and Scope of Research in Learning Technology". Retrieved 2012-03-03.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ "JISCMAIL Announcements List, used to distribute the ALT Fortnightly Digest". Retrieved 2012-03-03.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ "Consultation Responses on the ALT website". Retrieved 2012-03-03.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ "Review of research and evaluation on improving adult literacy and numeracy skills". Retrieved 2012-03-03.
{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help);|first=missing|last=(help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Details of joint AoC/ALT event held on 12 October 2011". Retrieved 2012-03-03.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ "NIACE signs MOUs with digital learning partners". Retrieved 2012-03-03.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ "WebCite version of partnership page on the TEL website". Retrieved 2012-03-03.
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