ALT Online Newsletter

This edition of ALT News includes: The Self Organised Learning Environment (SOLE) School Support Pack by Sugata Mitra, David Leat, Paul Dolan and Emma Crawley Getting the Mix Right Once Again: A Peek into the Interaction Equivalency Theorem and Interaction Design, by Terumi Miyazoe Mobile Publishing with Jutoh by Scott Hennessy A Story of (O)pen, by Amber Thomas [...]

This document is designed to support the implementation of Sugata Mitra’s Self Organised Learning Environment (SOLE) into multiple school contexts. It contains ‘whole school’ related information for Head Teachers and senior staff in addition to teaching and learning support for teachers and support staff.

The ebook medium is gradually evolving from its text based roots into a multimedia format, as can be seen by the emergence of the International Digital Publishing Forum’s EPUB 3 standard and Apple’s announcement that its iBooks reader supports rich media content.  In particular the adoption of interactive HTML5 technologies into the EPUB standard makes [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]