The ALT Annual Conference is the UK’s main conference for Learning Technologists and one of the largest conferences of its kind. It is held over three days every September, providing a valuable and practical forum for practitioners, researchers, managers and policy-makers from education and industry to solve problems, explore, reflect, influence and learn.

This year’s Annual Conference of the Association for Learning Technology will take place online 7-9 September 2021. As the leading professional body for Learning Technology in the UK, ALT brings together professionals to disseminate research, share practice and develop policy since 1993.

Conference themes

This year’s conference focuses on Shared Experience, Different Perspectives overarching theme and our ability to respond to the complexity of our changing environment. The ALT Annual Conference invites you to submit proposals in response to one of the conference themes: 

• Leadership in learning technology
• Inclusive practice
• Digital well-being
• Digital and physical spaces
• Wildcard

The conference Co-Chairs would particularly welcome collaborative submissions from different perspectives, including students’. 

Key dates

19 May 2021: Deadline for submissions. (All deadlines at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth time.)
21 June 2021: Deadline for the first round of reviews to be completed
23 June 2021: Initial decisions to authors will be sent out
09 July 2021: Deadline for authors to revise or update their proposals
14 July 2021: Final decisions to authors will be sent out
28 July 2021: Programme launch

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Individuals are limited to making ONE submission.

The ALT Conference welcomes submissions for:

• Research or reflective practice sessions (30 min)
• Video poster with synchronous discussion (5 min, pre-recorded)
• Discussion session, conversation space for synchronous (voice only) conversation (30 min)

The ALT Conference also accepts proposals for a small number of:

• Pre/post conference workshop, for hands on sessions which require tech demo or breakout rooms, which will run on 6 September (1 hour)

Each proposal will be reviewed by two members of the conference committee. The ALT Conference asks that you remove any information from your proposal that will identify you as the author, so that the review is conducted impartially.

All submissions are made via the EasyChair Submission System.