altc23: ALT Annual Conference 2023 The Oculus, University of Warwick Warwick, UK, September 5-7, 2023 |
Conference website | https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=798 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=altc23 |
Submission deadline | May 1, 2023 |
Looking through the digital lens: 30 years of Leading People, Digital and Culture
5th - 7th September 2023, The Oculus, University of Warwick, UK.
The ALT Annual Conference is the UK’s foremost conference for Learning Technologists and one of the largest conferences of its kind, attracting around 500 participants each year. In 2023, we are celebrating three decades since ALT was established in 1993 with our 30th annual conference.
The conference will critically examine the organisations and practices we work in through a digital lens, fostering a community of future leaders and innovators in the digital space, who come together to exchange ideas, collaborate, and drive change.
Community in this context also means thinking about what expertise is needed - well beyond the educational technology and technical expertise: organisational change leadership and management, business analysis, and the student voice.
Submission deadline(s)
The deadline for submissions is 23 April 2023 (midnight, anywhere on Earth Time).
Due to high numbers of requests for submission deadline extensions, the submission system will remain open to accept late submissions for another week, closing on 1 May (midnight, anywhere on Earth Time).
Meet our Co-Chairs
Santanu Vasant is an Educational Developer at the University of the Arts London with over 16 years of experience in higher education including 4 years in senior management roles. He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a trained Agile Project Management Practitioner. Santanu is also the driving force behind the “Talking HE podcast” providing insights from a range of roles across the higher education sector.
Lawrie Phipps is the Senior Research Lead at Jisc and a Professor of Digital Education and Leadership at Keele university. His portfolio includes research into institutional digital practices, digital leadership, and issues impacting digital experiences in education and digital transformation. Lawrie is a qualified executive coach who has worked with various individuals and teams to support change initiatives in universities for over 25 years.
Join the Conference Committee
The ALT Annual Conference Committee plays a vital role and our volunteers contribute their time and expertise including undertaking peer review, chairing sessions and organising local and social activities during the conference. The Committee meets every month from April to August and is chaired by the Conference Co-Chairs.
Conference Themes
Submissions should focus on the following themes:
- Leading People in a time of complexity: How have individuals and teams driven change to solve complex and difficult problems? How have individuals and teams been rewarded and recognised in their institutions for being experts and leaders in digital learning?
- Diversity and Inclusion: How are the most precarious and disadvantaged people being supported and empowered through technology? What future exclusions must we fight?
- Sustainability and Social Justice: How green is your educational technology? How will we model green and sustainable practices in the field of educational technology and what does it mean for institutions? How do you make decisions about tech that proactively care for the most vulnerable people among us? How should we model practices that account more for the health and well-being of people than that of businesses trying to sell technology to the education sector?
- Emerging technologies and behaviours: How are emerging technologies, or new uses for existing technologies changing behaviours and practices? What do emerging technologies mean for learning, teaching and assessment? How do we prepare students and staff to critically face the hype cycles around tools such as Machine Learning, and teach them to sift through what companies are claiming, to find the truth?
- Wildcard submissions: submissions that address the wider conference theme, covering practice, research or policy in Learning Technology.
Session Types
30 min Reflective practice or Research presentations |
Reflective practice presentations offer a contribution towards the practice of open education, e.g. case studies, descriptive accounts, etc., but with a reflective and critical component. Research presentations offer a theoretical and/or empirical contribution towards open education; located clearly in the field through, for example, a literature review. |
60 min Workshops |
Workshops may follow a variety of formats, but all are hands-on, engaging and interactive. Priority will be given to workshops that clearly demonstrate how participants will engage and what the outcomes of the workshop are. |
15 min short sessions |
Short sessions are designed to share work in progress, to have an informal get together and to explore recent work. This is an ideal format if you are a first time speaker. |
30 min online sessions |
The majority of conference sessions will take place on site. Choose this format if you wish to present wholly online. |
Submission, reviewing, and acceptance process
All submitted proposals will be peer-reviewed by members of the Conference Committee. After review and one cycle of revision and resubmission, the Conference Committee will select proposals for inclusion in the conference.
Submission criteria
- The maximum word count is 500 words and you need to state the word count. Submissions under 350 words or over 525 words will not be accepted or reviewed.
- Your submission should include two or three references, and six at most. References should follow the Harvard System (parenthetical referencing – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthetical_referencing).
- Submissions should not include the names or affiliations of the authors within the text.
- Contributions should not have appeared elsewhere in their entirety, although it is understood that earlier versions or portions of the contributions may have been openly published prior to the conference.
- To ensure a suitably diverse programme, no individual can be named as the main author or presenter of more than one proposal, though they may be named as co-authors.
- LLM tools such as ChatGPT will not be accepted as the main author for a proposal, because any attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, and AI tools cannot take such responsibility. Authors using LLM tools such as ChatGPT should acknowledge this use in the proposal or the reference section. (Adopted from Nature editorial policies).
Note for proposals with a commercial focus
We do not accept proposals with a primary focus on demonstrating services or products offered by a commercial provider and which do not explicitly address the conference theme(s) in a learning context.
Review criteria
Proposals will be reviewed according to the following criteria:
- Relevance to one or more of the conference key themes
- Usefulness to conference participants globally, and from across all sectors of education
- Contribution to the provision of reliable evidence for scholarship and research into Learning Technology
- Demonstrated evidence of reflection, evaluation, and criticality
- Engagement of participants
- Creativity and innovation
- Clarity, coherence and conformance to guidelines.
Education is considered broadly, incl. formal and informal learning settings in schools, colleges, universities, the workplace, homes and communities, at any stage in learners’