The Association of Learning Technologists Conference 2025 (ALTC) was held in Glasgow on the 23rd and 24th of October, and a contingent of us EDE team members went along to deliver papers on some of the work we’ve been doing these past years. Keynotes, paper sessions, workshops, and posters about all aspects of learning technology […]

The annual conference for the Association of Learning Technologists (ALT) took place in Glasgow on the 23rd and 24th October. Myself and several colleagues from the Educational Design and Engagement section were presenting and we also attended a number of sessions on various topics, GenAI seemed to be the “ghost at the feast” in most […]

This year’s annual ALT Conference was a bit of a different experience for me as it’s the first time in years that I wasn’t speaking or doing social media coverage, I was “just” a delegate among over 300 others, and honestly it was a welcome experience just to be part of that community and to […]

  After a couple of false starts, and a few interruptions, I am now at the point of applying for CMALT (Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology). For those who don’t know this is a professional accreditation route for those working with learning technology, achieved through evidencing a history of engagement across a […]

Today is my last day of work before I switch on my out of office notification and take a complete break from work for the next fortnight.  It’s been a long, hard year for many or us, and for some more so than most, so its been wonderful to see the year out on a […]

This is a belated transcript of the talk I gave at the ALT Summer Summit 2020. Slides from this presentation are available here: For the Common Good – Responding to the global pandemic with OER. At the height of the global COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO estimated that 1.57 billion learners in 191 countries worldwide had had […]

On the 20th of June we held a Celebration Event to celebrate our first year of supporting a cohort of staff from across the University to put together their CMALT portfolios. As I wrote my speech for this event I realised that this project has been such a pleasure to work on thanks to to […]

I’m writing a couple of weeks after I had the pleasure of attending the OER16: Open Culture conference. This particular conference has been on my mind a great deal longer than most as I volunteered to take part on the conference committee back in August 2015. When I found out that this was to be […]