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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 interdisciplinary fields such as learning technology are properly judged in the REF.
In its response to the HEFCE consultation, ALT warns that many of its members - as with many others in interdisciplinary areas - are located in departments, u… Continue

The RAF will headline the speaker line-up at HowToMoodle’s February seminar. The specialist training and consultancy firm is running the inaugural seminar to focus on what Version 2.0 of the popular open source course management system Moodle will bring to users plus an update on Moodle’s development path. Andy Perkins, RAF Squadron Leader will present a case study demonstrating how the RAF is using Moodle with 30,000 personnel.
HowToMoodle’s seminar takes place on 23 February 2010 in Farringdon… Continue

The Association for Learning Technology’s Open Access Repository was formally launched at ALT’s annual conference ALT-C in September and is now available. The repository represents a long-awaited development in ALT’s work and services as it allows users to contribute assets and make them available via the repository. Since it went online the repository has had about 10,000 visitors, browsing, searching for and downloading journal articles, conference presentations, links to webinar recordings… Continue

Pebble Learning is to demonstrate the latest release of the PebblePad online Personal Learning System at ascilite’s 2009 conference in Auckland City, New Zealand as a bronze sponsor. This is the first time that Pebble Learning has exhibited in New Zealand and follows the success of the team’s attendance at ascilite 2008 in Melbourne. Ascili… Continue