Technology and curriculum redesign helps meet big challenges
Learning providers across the country face big challenges – from cutbacks and policy changes to increasing demands by employers, government and learners. They must overcome…
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ALT and AoC join forces to run a one day conference about large scale curriculum redesign
From the demand for new models of curriculum delivery to better methods of management and coping with organisational change – no college is immune from…
Unlocking knowledge for anyone to use and re-use – ALT does its bit
Technology brings change to educational practice. Every college in the UK is or ought to be grappling with this, using the results of research to…
How can technology enhance and improve learning in schools, and why does this matter for FE?
The government seems to be coming round to the point of view that we must break out of our educational silos when it comes to…
Filling an important gap in next year’s Common Inspection Framework
The absence of any mention of technology-supported learning in relation to the quality of teaching, learning and assessment is a major omission from the Ofsted…
What can we learn from Stanford University’s free online computer science courses?
At the end of July 2011, Stanford University announced that three introductory one-term undergraduate courses would be available free as online distance learning courses during…
What did the ALT conference have to say for FE and Skills?
This year’s annual technology conference for researchers, practitioners and policy-makers saw a step-change in the level of activity from FE delegates – and next year…
What you can read should not depend on where you work – why ALT is making its peer-reviewed journal Open Access
The Association for Learning Technology functions partly as a learned society. As such we have a peer-reviewed journal Research in Learning Technology which is currently…
Urgent need to equip teachers with 21st Century technology skills
Most newly qualifying teachers complete an in-service training programme in the use of technology to enhance learning and teaching but research by the Association for…
Is Alison Wolf blind to the importance of technology and learning?
By Kirstie Donnelly of learndirect and Seb Schmoller of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Professor Alison Wolf has long recognised the enormous importance of…