The 25th annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology will be held at the University of Manchester (UK) between 11 and 13 September 2018. The keynote presentations and a number of other sessions from current and previous conferences are available through a live YouTube channel. The hashtag for the conference on social media is #altc.
For this anniversary edition, Welten staff member dr. Steven Verjans will participate as a member of the programme committee, as a chair for a number of conference sessions, and as presenter for work-in-progress about thesis circles together with former Welten-colleagues dr. Kamakshi Rajagopal and dr. Amy Hsiao.
More about ALT
The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) is a mainly UK-oriented member organisation bringing together practitioners, researchers and policy makers with an interest in Learning Technology with the aim 'to advance education through increasing, exploring and disseminating knowledge in the field of Learning Technology for the benefit of the general public'. The Open University of the Netherlands has been an organisational member for approximately 10 years, and has been active within the conference programme committee and the editorial board of 'Research in Learning Technology', amongst others.
Research in Learning Technology (RLT) is a peer-reviewed Open Access journal, published and funded by ALT and its members. It has been awarded a DOAJ seal, and adheres to the so-called platinum or diamond standard, which implies that it is a no-fee publication. Articles published in the RLT journal are accepted by the Dutch ICO research school, because it is part of ICO’s ISI-list.