ALT Northern Ireland Members Group
NJBC Review – Session 1 Synthetic Governance: How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence are Shaping Education Link to Video https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_354myr8m Kalervo N. Gulson (University of Sydney, Australia), Sam Sellar (University of South Australia, Australia) Science fiction tales about Artificial General Intelligence eclipsing humanity are still, for now, fantasies. However, many AI experts are “spooked” by the…
We are on the final countdown to Friday’s ALTNI Event, 10th June, bringing together colleagues from across the country who are interested in learning technology. We have both in person and virtual as options for attendance but please do register at our Eventbrite page, so we can get catering numbers right and know who to…
We are excited to reveal our fabulous guest speakers for the upcoming event in June: Tom Farrelly, Sharon Flynn and Bryan Mathers, read all about them and their work below. After the difficulties of the couple of years we are looking forward to a day of reunions, sharing and celebration of all our achievements. Registration…
This month’s Postbag question comes in from Aideen Gibson, a learning designer at Falmouth University. What is your preferred option for managing projects/tasks which are quite large and have a lot of people involved? Do you use Basecamp, Asana, Trello or any such tools? If so, would you recommend this approach? To help answer this,…
Do you need suggestions on how to approach a learning activity design, or some help to resolve an ethical ed-tech dilemma? Do you have a super-project in mind but don’t know how to get the buy-in from your department? Do you want career advice on how to make your next move? We’re trying out a…
Are you still staring at a blank page where your CMALT portfolio should be? If you need motivation to write, space to think about your projects, feedback on your reflection, and you want to move through the portfolio process as part of a supportive group, then the ALTNI CMALT Support Group is for you. Building…
We invite you to join us for a not-just-book-club discussion. Books, papers, blogs, podcasts, video – as long as it is accessible by everyone and is learning technology-related then it is welcome! The Not-Just-Book Club will run every other month, starting in February. The discussion will take place on the ALTNI blog and be facilitated…
It’s been another busy year for everyone involved in learning technology. It has been great to share the success stories from the ALTNI community recently, and we hope to continue this in the new year. Unfortunately, we were unable to reschedule our postponed Annual Event, but fingers crossed that we have a safe environment to…
Our next celebration is a community member who not only achieved a Masters in Educational Leadership in December of 2020 from Queen’s University Belfast but also featured on national television as part of the 2020 Pearson Teaching Awards. Stefanie Campbell, Deputy Head of the Learning Academy at South Eastern Regional College (SERC) won a Pearson…
ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Finalist: Richard Beggs Next in our end of year series to celebrate the achievements of some of our members we have Richard Beggs from Ulster University. Richard is a lecturer in the Centre for Higher Education Research & Practice and had his work on active learning spaces recognised at…
