Network, learning, connections and ideas... The top results from what has brought delegates to #altc25 this year @altuk.bsky.social @vevox.bsky.social

Good morning #altc25 delegates. For your breakfast reading, I share a chance encounter on a train that will no doubt reflect the next two days of learning... mattcornock.co.uk/opinion/look... @altuk.bsky.social #altc #learning #cpd

Learning Engineering - what is it and how can it help both better teaching and institutional strategy in #onlineeducation ? Find out here www.linkedin.com/posts/mattco...

"We have to own this uncertain time and we have to use all our skill and knowledge to navigate it." - my takeaway reflection from #OLS25 mattcornock.co.uk/online-learn...

Day 2 of #RIDE2025 This post covers examples of excellent practices in accessibility, assessment and holistic views of online and digital education - mattcornock.co.uk/online-learn... #onlineeducation #digitalcapabilities

Context and culture - why these two words have resonated with me at #RIDE2025 - mattcornock.co.uk/online-learn... #onlineeducation #digitaleducation #highereducation

What did I learn about my perspective of joyful online learning through a Lego Serious Play session? mattcornock.co.uk/online-learn... #onlinelearning #onlineeducation #legoseriousplay

PUBLICATION! Peer-reviewed paper from Research in Distance Education 2024 on #systemsthinking #accessibility and #onlineeducation now available: www.linkedin.com/posts/mattco...

Final reminder #LTHEchat is happening TODAY at 8pm GMT. The chat will be led by Dr. Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social, Dr. Richard Harris @richharrisleeds.bsky.social and Dr. Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social. Read the blog post at: wp.me/p4QBCl-1O7

JOBS in #onlinelearning #onlineeducation - Apply your digital skills in the education sector with our DEO roles. Work in a team committed to inclusive education and support learners from all around the world to achieve their goals. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... | jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

JOB: Project Manager (9 months secondment cover) - I'm looking for a new colleague to join our Online Learning team. If you love working on projects that reach students all over the world, enjoy adapting to different contexts and learning new things: apply by 13 Feb jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Strategy, marketing, student insights... Building online education success - mattcornock.co.uk/online-learn... #onlineeducation #highereeducation

Obligatory #snow photo #RivelinValley #Sheffield @paultheweatherman.bsky.social @sheffieldstar.bsky.social

"We must make our own future and enable the futures of others." My new year message for 2025 #HappyNewYear #OnlineEducation bit.ly/4hfdeUP

Phew... 584m miles later. Happy New Year to all. What will 2025 bring? Whilst we will inevitably still be going round in circles (or rather an ellipse), in other ways I hope we make a lot of progress! #2025 #happynewyear #obscuremetaphor

Some musings for the end of the year... What have I learned this year and what might we need to do in 2025 to rethink #highereducarion ... bit.ly/4hfdeUP #onlineeducation #professionallearning

I will be presenting at this year's Social Media in Higher Education conference in Sheffield. A great conference in a fantastic city. The title of the talk is: '16 Years of Tweeting: Evolution, Impact, and the Future in Bluesky' #SocMedHE24

"Formal and informal learning can work in tandem and when designing professional learning, it often needs to. For professional development, educational goals require an alignment of individual, organisational and educational outcomes." mattcornock.co.uk/online-learn... #ProfessionalLearning

The long read: Why recognition of learning matters. Why microcredentials have potential. National agendas and MC contexts. The implementation gap. Change through digital transformation. Marketplaces and learner agency. Change inhibited by competing agendas #epic2024 mattcornock.co.uk/online-learn...

New article: Recognition and microcredentials - have competing agendas limited adoption? mattcornock.co.uk/online-learn... Further reflections from #openepic #epic2024 and the excellent discussion by the community

The challenge of educational recognition... How do learners a) find the right learning pathway and b) articulate their learning to enter and progress? - Reflections from #openepic #epic2024 mattcornock.co.uk/online-learn... #digitaleducation #onlinelearning

Reflections from #epic2024 #openepic - Doorways to learning journeys - www.linkedin.com/posts/mattco...

I've been at #epic2024 #openepic this week, which I believe to be my first international conference and certainly the first I've presented at in person outside the UK. It's been a insightful event with competing philosophies on recognition, microcredentials and educational systems.

New collection in the open access Journal of Interactive Media in Education on the legacy of MOOCs - jime.open.ac.uk/collections/... #openeducation #research #onlinelearning - some great papers

If you missed my @altuk.bsky.social conference write-ups, here's the omnibus #altc24 #edtech Day 1 - Visions of the future mattcornock.co.uk/edtech/visio... Day 2 - Connected conversations mattcornock.co.uk/edtech/conne... Day 3 - Humanising digital #education mattcornock.co.uk/edtech/human...

Fawn - ChatGPT is more patient with me than a neurotypical person. #ALTc24

Thanks to @altuk.bsky.social Scott Farrow and Diane Bennett for a great #altc24 - My reflections and summary of Day 3 are here - mattcornock.co.uk/edtech/human... Enjoy on travels home. #altc #altc24

Sometimes it's the smallest changes that can make the most difference. Emma Dibb explaining the instructional wrapper applied to reading lists that respected the discipline pedagogy #altc24 Reading types: core, recommended, wider; Framing what and why; Branching and choice for learner interests

Emma Dibb, Matt Jevons and Tahiya Brewin presenting the design and development approach for online education with disabled user testing and inclusive pedagogy #altc24

New special interest groups: Digital Accessibility - www.alt.ac.uk/groups/speci... - bringing external groups and HEIs together #altc24

Formalising opportunities for gaining expertise from lived experience; informal mechanisms, chats, etc; quick feedback, surveys. - Three ways to bring disabled voices into practice from Piers Wilkinson #altc24 #a11y #inclusiveeducation

Excellent panel discussion of lived experience of disability, technology, responsibilities - accessibility at the design stage is the answer to the perpetual budget constraints. Address inclusion and access as part of project scope, never an add on #altc24 #a11y

Good morning. Your breakfast reading is here - summary of my experience of Day 2 of #altc24 @altuk.bsky.social - mattcornock.co.uk/edtech/conne... - purposefully connected digital education #edtech #digitaleducation

Incredibly proud of University of Leeds MSc Disability Studies, Rights and Inclusion programme team's achievement tonight winning the ALT Award for Case Studies in the use of Ethical Edtech. A human-centred approach to design, with strong collaboration across academic and specialist teams #altc24

Thank you. It's an honour to become a trustee of @altuk.bsky.social - an organisation that's shaped and accompanied by career. I look forward to working with everyone #altc

Congratulations to recent CMALT holders. As an assessor it's always a pleasure to review work of the ALT community and support the development of colleagues #altc24 Tomorrow @julievoce.bsky.social @puiyin.bsky.social and I are sharing our experiences of being an assessor with some top tips.

New special interest groups (SIG) launching supported by @altuk.bsky.social Digital accessibility. Digital assessment. Digital sustainability. Independent consultancy/careers. More info in the SIG session tomorrow. #altc24

#ALTC24 For those new to the Bluesky platform, here is a handy Learning Technology and Digital Education Starter Pack. 150 folks to follow. go.bsky.app/MLDmLaM @dompates.bsky.social

Series of Jisc blogs with authentic experiences on the positive impacts of AI for disabled students - nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/category/... #altc24

Student panel: A very clear answer to whether AI literacy should be discipline-based. Yes! Perhaps this may give rise to a new role of AI Subject Specialist (similar to Librarians) #altc24

Do lecture recordings impact attendance? Students sharing that in person has value, recordings are not a substitute; opportunity to ask questions easier in person; format of lecture not engaging in person; individual motivation; issue of marked absent when ill, even if using recordings(!) #altc24

Student panel: examples of giving ownership/trust for students to use technology (e.g. Leeds Helix makerspaces, media), balanced with need to guide students what technology is actually available... Quite simply "When students don't know what to look for, they won't find anything" - Weronica #altc24

Great example of purposeful and thoughtful use of AI from student Conor to support learning "Prompting AI to prompt me back... To further improve what I want to do" - this requires AI literacy #altc24

Some of the challenges of learning technology... Panel is highlighting the importance of UX design in the structure and instructional content of online spaces #altc24

Student panel for our opening session on day 2 #altc24 - students from Leeds and Edge Hill. Opening question on the benefits of technology to enhance learning... Great quote on the use of AI and prompt engineering in art and design from Josie "a way to stretch creativity"

For your breakfast reading... Day 1 reflections of @altuk.bsky.social #altc24 "The effectiveness of collaboration and discussion to make change... (and) the collective learning of us as a group of values-led professionals seeking to enable education for all." mattcornock.co.uk/edtech/visio...

Quote of the day - “If a dog wants to become a bee, we need to teach it how to do bee things.” (paraphrased) from Chris Friend's keynote on Day 1 #altc24 #altc

Takeaways from Day 1 of @altuk.bsky.social #altc24 #altc - mattcornock.co.uk/edtech/visio... - Humanising digital education; Iteration and learning design; Future thinking; The value of discussion

Learning design work tends towards solutions. LDs are structurally disadvantaged to have to focus on solutions. However, when granted the opportunity to act as experts, and treated as experts didn't look for solutions, but scenarios and can have conversations. - @donnalanclos.bsky.social #altc24

Really interesting talk by Lawrie Phipps, Donna Lanclos and Peter Bryant on how they have facilitated discussions about the education environment and discussions that come from when the parameters of that environment shift. Paradox that you can't have opportunity without threat. #altc24