ALT Online Newsletter

It was in the spring of 2006 that I first encountered Terry Anderson’s Getting the Mix Right Again: An Updated and Theoretical Rationale for Interaction (2003), ― I could not get the ideas presented out of my mind. At that time, I was working in Tokyo, Japan, while enrolled in the online Master of Distance [...]

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Valentine’s Day this year was the tenth anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative. It’s amazing how far the academic community has come in unlocking access to scholarly works. JISC has led significant development to bring this vision to life (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/openaccess ) and the launch of ALT-J as an open journal is timely evidence than [...]

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Systems record how students are using them in their log files. We can use this data to understand their behaviour and to help students to perform better by using it to help them to understand what they are doing. Work in this area is already improving student success rates.

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There are many sophisticated ways to provide interactive content on the web; why would you consider publishing resources in MS Word 2003 or OpenOffice? The answer to this question depends on your intended audience.

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David Jennings outlines how educators can use the riches of the ‘online commons’ to make learning more agile and resilient despite the shortage of funds.

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Harnessing technology to boost productivity in most areas of the economy has relied on dynamic, profit-driven companies to create change. Teachable’s market for educational content is an example of how this kind of entrepreneurialism can transform education, boosting educational outcomes even while budgets are limited.

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