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Learning Technologist of the Year Awards 1997–2016

The Association for Learning Technology Learning Technologist of the Year Awards celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field. The Awards are open to individuals and teams based anywhere in the world. They celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field and promote intelligent use of Learning Technology on a national scale. The Awards were supported by CoSector – University of London and were presented at the 2016 ALT Annual conference in Warwick on the evening of 7 September 2016. This year, we also celebrate 10 years of the Award. Turn over for details of the winners not only of this year’s Award but also for an overview of the last 10 years. Individual Awards

Winner Daniel Scott, Barnsley College Daniel’s submission describes his journey as he extended his role as a Learning Technologist and the milestones he achieved. Daniel dedicated himself to training and developing a new Instructional Designer and Learning Technologist workforce, through the Digital Learning Design qualification suite. Daniel went above and beyond his role, and he designed, delivered, assessed and managed the Level 4 Certificate in Technology in Learning Delivery to staff. He is highly proactive, reflective and evaluative of his experiences and professionalism through his personal and professional blog, which enables him to inform his and the organisation’s development.

Runner-up Chrissi Nerantzi, Manchester Metropolitan University Chrissi works as an academic developer in the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has initiated many successful practitioner-driven collaborative open initiatives, which have become co-owned informal cross-institutional collaborations, modelling a democratic approach to openness.

Highly commended entries David Watson, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Fiona MacNeill, University of Brighton Iain Griffin, University of Northampton

Team Awards

Winner Learning Technology and Innovation team, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Students as Producers at LSE (SAP@LSE) is a large-scale, institution- wide learning and teaching initiative led by the Learning Technology and Innovation (LTI) team at the London School of Economics and Political Science. LTI are the School’s central team leading the enhancement of teaching and learning through technology, staffed by learning technologists, system specialists, research staff and technology experts. SAP@LSE is a series of linked projects that transform the learning, teaching and assessment experience at the LSE through supporting, embedding and scaling the role of students as co-producers and co- constructers of content and knowledge. The projects were aiming to develop and enhance the wide variety of student capabilities to make and share content and knowledge and put the voice of the student at the forefront of assessment and teaching practice.

Runner-up Health E-learning and Media (HELM) team, School of Health Sciences, HELM is a team of academic research, e-learning development, delivery and customer service, which supports all aspects of digital learning as well as undertaking externally funded projects and research with a focus on health-related e-learning. They work with the School’s 3000 students, 300 staff and 9000 clinical mentors in collaborative design and implementation of e-learning.

Third place The Open Education Team, University of Edinburgh The Open Education Team at the University of Edinburgh support staff and students to engage with OER, and help the institution to mainstream digital education across the curriculum.

Highly commended entries The eLearning Team, University of Brighton Educational Design and Engagement (EDE) part of Learning, Teaching and Web Services (LTW), University of Edinburgh (UoE) Digital Education Team, ILT Team, Heart of Worcestershire College

Community Choice Awards The individual and team awards were chosen by a panel of judges. Everybody had the opportunity to Community Choice vote for the Community Choice Award from the judges ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Awards shortlisted finalists. The Community Choice Award was 2016 given to Health E-learning and Media (HELM) team, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham. They were also the runner-up for the team award. The previous 10 years This is a special year as the awards are now in their 10th year! Each year since 2007 we have come together to recognise outstanding achievements in the learning technology field and the promotion of intelligent use of Learning Technology on a national scale. Selected by a panel of judges from across sectors and chaired by the President of the Association, the finalists compete to be awarded one of the prestigious Learning Technologist of the Year Awards. The following quotes give you a flavour of the impact the awards had on the winners:

Sheila MacNeil – Individual Winner 2013 I was thrilled to win the individual Learning Technologist of the Year award in 2013. The award was very timely for me. It was a lovely bookend to my time with Jisc Cetis which had just ended. It was a huge validation of my work there and with the wider UK learning technology community and for Cetis and all my friends and colleagues there. The award was also a great introduction and calling card when I started my current position at GCU. It’s a fantastic thing to have on your CV and on any kind of bio. It has also allowed me to put something meaningful in the awards section in my LinkedIn profile! Since winning the award my relationship with ALT has gone from strength to strength. In 2014 I was elected a Trustee and this year I am delighted to be taking up the position of Vice- Chair of the Association. Being involved in the strategic direction of ALT, as well as the wider member community, is a continuing professional privilege and pleasure.

James Clay – Individual Winner 2009 I was really honoured to win the award in 2009... I did think at the time, “That was nice.” What I didn’t realise was the impact the award would have on my work and my profile. During the first year I was invited to deliver keynotes at major national and international conferences including ones in Ireland and New Zealand. As a result What I didn’t of the award I was one of a few members of the college to be invited realise was the to have lunch with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. It also enabled me to build a larger network of contacts and fellow learning impact the award technologists with whom I could share, collaborate and work. would have on As a result of winning the award I began to become more involved my work and my in the Association of Learning Technology, initially joining the FE Committee and eventually becoming a Trustee. I have joined, profile participated and formed SIGs, and have continued to attend and present at ALT events and conferences. My award from Vivien Rolfe – Individual Winner 2009 I jointly received the individual award with James Clay in 2009. ALT meant the As a lecturer in physiology at the University of Nottingham, I world to me as it became interested in technology through creating Flash animations for students. I then joined and became endorsed my work technology coordinator for the Faculty of Health and Life Science, helping staff to develop their own digital interests and skills. My award from ALT meant the world to me as it endorsed my work in supporting both the “student and staff experience”. ALT were a tremendous help when I set up the blog for the Association of National Teaching Fellow. I work with ALT where I can through webinars, the Open Education Special Interest Group and other activities to try and promote open education, and I currently feel with the student debt crisis and inequalities in higher education access and success, our open community has a vital role to play.

Individual Winners of the past 10 years

2015 Winner – Joel Mills, acting Head of TEL, University of Hull, then Technology Enhanced Learning Advisor, University of Hull Runner-up – John Kerr, Learning Innovation Officer, College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow Highly Commended – Luke Burns, Teaching Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds

2014 Winner – James Pickering, Lecturer in Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of Leeds @accessanatomy Joint runners up – Jade Kelsall, e-Learning Technologist, University of Manchester Library @jadekelsall and James Kieft, Group Learning and Development Manager, Activate Learning, then eLearning and Resources Manager, Reading College @james_kieft Highly commended – Tom Andrew, ILT Development Coordinator, Aylesbury College @tomandrewuk; David Hopkins, eLearning Consultant, Warwick Business School @hopkinsdavid and Matthew Homewood, Principal Lecturer in European Union Law and Learning and Teaching Coordinator, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University @mjhomewood

2013 Winner – Sheila MacNeill, now Senior Lecturer in Digital Learning at Glasgow Caledonian University, then Jisc Cetis Runner-up – Gloria Visintini, University of Bristol 2012 Winners – Steph Ladbrooke, Pedmore CofE Primary School and Philip Tubman, Learning Technology Group, Information Systems Services, Lancaster University Highly Commended – David Renton, Extended Lecturer in Computing at Reid Kerr College; James Pickering, University of Leeds and Andy Smith, Blackpool & The Fylde College

2011 Winners – Oliver Quinlan, Senior Research Manager at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, then Robin Hood Primary School, South Birmingham, UK and John Rutherford, Marlborough School Science College, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK Runner-up – Neil Morris, Faculty of Biological Sciences at the Learning Technologist University of Leeds, UK of the Year Awards Highly commended – Michael Thrussell, Henshaws College, Harrogate, Yorkshire, UK

The Association for Learning Technology Learning Technologist of the Year Awards celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field. Now in their eighth year, the Awards are open to individuals and teams based anywhere in the UK. The Awards are supported by ULCC and were presented in Manchester at the 2015 ALT Annual 2010 Conference on the evening of 9 September 2015. This year in addition to the formal Awards the community also voted for their favourite. See alt.ac.uk/LTAwards. Winners – Cristina Costa, Research and Graduate College at the University of Salford, and Kevin McLaughlin, St Peter’s Church of England Primary School, Whetstone, Leicestershire Runner-up – Mike Wald, School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton

Learning Technologist Highly Commended – Terese Bird, Beyond Distance Research of the Year Award Alliance at the

2009 Joint Winners – James Clay, Gloucestershire College and Dr Vivien

The Association for Learning Technology’s Learning Technologist Rolfe, De Montfort University’s School of Allied Health Sciences of the Year Award celebrates and rewards excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field. Now in its seventh year, this award is open to individuals and teams. The awards were presented in Warwick at the 2014 ALT Highly Commended – David Payne, Middlesbrough College Conference on the evening of 2 September 2014.

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LEARNING TECHNOLOGIST Winner – Josie Fraser LT A OF THE YEAR AWARD 2013

alt.ac.uk Registered charity number: 1063519 Highly Commended – Stuart Hepplestone, Sheffield Hallam The Association for Learning Technology’s Learning Technologist of the Year Award University celebrates and rewards excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field.

Special Award for Learners Lizzie May and Ryan Morton, Physiotherapy students at Sheffield Hallam University Tek5 team, students at New College Nottingham 2007

Individual Award Winner Runner up Sheila MacNeill, Jisc CETIS Gloria Visintini, University of Joint Winners – Philip Cosson, School of Health and Social Care at Bristol Team Award the University of Teesside and Hannah Whaley, The Learning Centre Winner Highly Commended The Film Buffs, Hull College Promoting Academic Resources in Sustainability Runners Up (PARiS) Team, The University of at the University of Dundee Talk Aloud – Michael Faraday Nottingham School, Next Generation Learning Team Tek5 team, New College Nottingham Keele Active Virtual Environment (KAVE) Team, Runner-up – PebblePad Development Team from Pebble Learning Keele University Ltd, Wolverhampton Team Winners of the past 10 years LEARNING TECHNOLOGIST LT A OF THE YEAR AWARD 2012

alt.ac.uk Registered charity number: 1063519 2015 The Association for Learning Technology’s Winner – Digital Learning Team, University of Leeds Learning Technologist of the Year Award celebrates and rewards Runner-up – Academic Support, Technology and Innovation (ASTI), excellent practice and University of Plymouth outstanding achievement in the learning technology field.

Highly commended – Ebola in Context: Understanding Transmission, This year’s entries again represent a wide range of practitioners from across educational sectors. Their examples of overcoming the challenges Response and Control MOOC Team, London School of Hygiene and posed by economic, social and technological change demonstrate an inspiring commitment to learners, to colleagues and to their own professional Tropical Medicine development that this award honours. The Award was presented at the ALT conference in Manchester in September 2012. Highly Commended – Technology Enhanced Learning for Medicine and Dentistry (TELMeD), Peninsula Schools of Medicine and back Dentistry, Plymouth University Community Choice Award Jointly awarded to (as voted for by The judging panel for 2011

■ Carol Higgison – President of ALT. the community): Academic Support, Technology and■ Dave White, representing Innovation, 2010’s team winner – the TALL team from the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford. ■ Kevin McLaughlin, one of the 2010 individual winners – St Peter’s LEARNING TECHNOLOGIST Church of England Primary School, Whetstone, Leicestershire. LT ■ Jane Hart – Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance A OF THE YEAR AWARD 2011 University of Plymouth and Technology Enhanced Technologies.Learning for ■ Peter Twining – Director of Vital, and Senior Lecturer in Education at the Open University. alt.ac.uk Registered charity number: 1063519 ■ Christine Lewis – UK&EU Justice ICT Advisor, Ministry of Justice. Medicine and Dentistry (TELMeD), Peninsula Schools of Medicine The Association for Learning Technology’s Learning Technologist of the Year Award celebrates and rewards excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the and Dentistry, Plymouth University A note about the 2012 Learning learning technology field. Technologist of the Year Award The Award was presented at the ALT conference in Leeds in Details of the 2012 Award will be published September 2011. in early 2012. Organisations interested in sponsoring the 2012 Award should contact Seb Schmoller, Chief Executive of ALT – [email protected]. Individual award Team award

Winners Winner 2014 Oliver Quinlan from Robin Hood Primary School, South In-Folio Implementation Team based on JISC Techdis, Birmingham, UK, but now Lecturer in Education at The Rix Centre, The National College for Young People ALT Plymouth University. with Epilepsy, Portland College and National Star Gipsy Lane College, UK. John Rutherford from Marlborough School Science Headington Oxford OX3 0BP, UK College, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK. Registered charity number 1063519 www.alt.ac.uk Winner – The LearnTech Team, University of NorthamptonThe Trustees of ALT gratefully acknowledge Runner up Joint second prize the generous sponsorship of the 2011 Neil Morris from the Faculty of Biological Sciences at Learning Teaching and Technology Centre (LTTC) Team This document is available online at: the University of Leeds, UK. from the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Ireland Learning Technologist of the Year Award by http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2161 Adobe. For more information about Adobe, The Open Nottingham Team from the University of V3_20110725_SS/AD Nottingham, UK. go to www.adobe.com. Highly commended Runners up – The DigiLit Leicester Project Team, Leicester City Michael Thrussell from Henshaws College, Harrogate, Yorkshire, UK. Council and De Montfort University, and The eTargets project team, ARK Bentworth Primary Academy

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ALT’s Learning Technologist of the Year Award celebrates and rewards excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field. In 2010, the Award included an additional stream open to those employed in Department for Education funded schools in England. This stream was supported by Vital, a professional 2013 development programme that aims to revitalise the teaching of IT and the use of ICT across the broader curriculum. The Award was presented at the ALT conference in Nottingham in September 2010 by Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Newcastle. Winner – The Film Buffs, Hull College 2010 winners Runners up – Talk Aloud, Michael Faraday School and Keele Active LEARNING TECHNOLOGIST Virtual Environment (KAVE) Team, Keele University OF THE YEAR AWARD

Individual award Team Highly Commended – Promoting Academic Resources in Winners Winner Cristina Costa from the Research and Graduate The TALL team from the Department for Continuing College at the University of Salford Education at the University of Oxford Kevin McLaughlin from St Peter’s Church of England Sustainability (PARiS) Team, University of Nottingham and Tek5 Primary School, Whetstone, Leicestershire Runner up Runner up Mike Wald from the School of Electronics and The Digital Learning Team at the National Institute Computer Science at the University of Southampton of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) Team, New College Nottingham Highly commended Highly commended Terese Bird from the Beyond Distance Research The Bloomsbury Learning Environment Technical Alliance at the University of Leicester Team from Birkbeck, the Institute of Education, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Royal Veterinary College, and the School of Special Award for Learners – Lizzie May and Ryan Morton, Students Oriental and African Studies. at Sheffield Hallam University and Tek5 Team, Students at New

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2012 Learning Technologist Winner – Lambeth City Learning Centre of the About the Year Award Award ALT’s Learning Technologist of 2009 Winners Runners up – Team SCARLET, University of Manchester and Skills @ the Year Award is now in its third year of operation. The Award is open to individual The winning and short-listed entrants Library, University of Leeds members of ALT, and to individuals Four team entries and three individual entries were short-listed and invited to and teams based make presentations to the judging panel. The awards are as follows. in ALT member organisations. Individual award Nuno Jorge, John Horton, Patrick There is a team Lockley, and Julian Tenney. and an individual Joint Winners award. The Beyond Distance Research Alliance James Clay from Gloucestershire from the University of Leicester. Team The aim of the College Award is to members are Dr Alejandro Armellini, Dr celebrate and Dr Vivien Rolfe from De Montfort Palitha Edirisingha, Jaideep Mukherjee, reward excellent University’s School of Allied Health Dr Ming Nie, Dr Sahm Nikoi, Professor practice and Sciences Gilly Salmon, and Matthew Wheeler. 2011 outstanding achievement Highly Commended in the learning Highly Commended David Payne from Middlesbrough technology field. College The LSN MoLeNET Mentoring Team. The Award was Team members are James Clay, Elaine presented at the Team award Coates, Di Dawson, Ron Mitchell, Mick Winner – In-Folio Implementation Team based on JISC Techdis, The ALT conference Mullane, Lilian Soon, David Sugden, in Manchester on Joint Winners and John Whalley. 9 September 2009 by Martin Bean, The Xerte Project Team from the The other short-listed entrant (for the Vice-Chancellor University of Nottingham. Team team award) was the JISC Regional Rix Centre, The National College for Young People with Epilepsy, designate of the members are Andy Beggan, Fay Cross, Support Centre Scotland North & East. Open University. Portland College and National Star College, UK back - page 4 front - page 1 2008 LEARNING TECHNOLOGIST OF THE YEAR AWARD Joint second prize – Learning Teaching and Technology Centre (LTTC) TEAM AwArd, conTinuEd

The Technology Directorate at creating, in house, the new system, Team from the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Ireland and The Ufi learndirect was commended and in seamlessly migrating all of in the team award for successfully Ufi/learndirect’s courses across in-sourcing the production of onto the new system; LEArninG TEcHnoLoGiST and transition to a new learning „ passion and commitment to platform that supports over two meeting the needs of learners; Open Nottingham Team from the University of Nottingham, UK million learners. oF THE YEAr AwArd Team members are Bazil Caygill, „ successful building of dialogue Bella Abrams, Cathy Tarbox, Dick between the IT development team Ufi Technology Directorate Moore, Katie Attwood, Paul Harris, and the rest of the organisation – 2008 winnErS team members Phil Harper, Richard Dickinson, particularly those concerned with Richard Joseph, Simon Mather, learners and learning; Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Learning Technologist and Simon Taylor. „ systematic use of formal project management methodologies. of the Year Award is now in its second year of operation. Judges’ comments „ The panel was also particularly “The panel was very impressed impressed with the new system’s The Award is open to individual members of ALT, and to individuals and teams based in ALT with the team’s: tutoring-interface, along with the underlying technology of the new member organisations. There is a team and an individual award. „ outstanding technical and system.” managerial achievement in The aim of the Award is to celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding 2010 achievement in the learning technology field. The Award was presented at the ALT conference in Leeds on 10 September 2008 by David Judges’ comments The other short-listed entrant was Barry Nicholls, Cavallo, Chief Learning Architect for OLPC (One Laptop per Child). from Liverpool John Moores University, for creating “Barry’s work in this area is a long-term commitment, and maintaining a timesaving and quality enhancing and his tenacity and professionalism in developing THE WINNING AND COMMENDED ENTRANTS software application to support laboratory experiments and improving the labs software, has made a real and Winner – The TALL team from the Department for Continuing in analytical chemistry. beneficial difference to students and staff at Liverpool John Moores University.” Three team entries and three individual entries were short-listed and invited to make presentations to the judging panel. The awards are as follows:

indiViduAL AwArd Education at the University of Oxford THE JUDGING PANEL FOR THE 2008 AWARD WInneR „ Angela Sanders, NIACE Josie Fraser „ Bob Banks, Tribal Group, and member of the ALT Research Committee „ Hannah Whaley, Dundee University, and joint winner of the 2007 Award commended „ Margaret Bennett, QIA Stuart Hepplestone from Sheffield Hallam University Runner-up – The Digital Learning Team at the National Institute of „ Stephen Heppell, CEO of Heppel.Net Ltd, and Professor of New Media Environments at Bournemouth University (Chair) TEAM AwArd „ Steve Ryan, London School of Economics, and incoming Chair of ALT WInneR The Learning Technology Group at Lancaster University Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) The Trustees of ALT gratefully acknowledge the ALT Tribal Group’s generous sponsorship of the 2008 Gipsy Lane commended Headington Learning Technologist of the Year Award. For Oxford OX3 0BP, UK The Learning Technology Team at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine more information about the Tribal Group go to ALT is registered charity number 1063519 The Technology Directorate at Ufi learndirect www.tribalgroup.co.uk. www.alt.ac.uk Highly Commended – The Bloomsbury Learning Environment 4 SS/LR; 9/2008; 2000 1 Technical Team from Birkbeck, the Institute of Education, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Royal Veterinary College, and the School of Oriental and African Studies

2009 Joint Winners – The Xerte Project Team, University of Nottingham 2007 and The Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester Learning Technologist of the Year Award Highly Commended – The LSN MoLeNET Mentoring Team This year, the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) organised the inaugural Learning Technologist of the Year Award.

The Award was open to individual members of ALT, and to individuals and teams based in ALT member organisations worldwide.

The aim of the Award is to celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field. 2008

The Award was presented at the ALT of Leicester. Panel members were: Dr Bob conference at Nottingham University on Banks, Senior Consultant with Tribal Group 5 September 2007 by Dr Peter Norvig, plc; Cathy Ellis, Vice Chair (and now Chair) of Director of Research at Google. ALT, and a Director at Becta; Lawrie Phipps, JISC Programme Manager for Users and Winner – The Learning Technology Group at Lancaster University The judging panel for the 2007 Award was Innovation; and George Roberts, Educational chaired by Gilly Salmon, Professor of e‑Learning Developer (e‑Learning) at the Oxford Centre & Learning Technologies at the University for Staff and Learning Development.

The winning and short-listed entrants The standard of entries was generally Joint winners: Philip Cosson, of the The other short‑listed entrants were: Highly Commended – The Learning Technology Team at London high. The judging panel shortlisted School of Health and Social Care at ● the English Online Team at The 6 entries: 3 from individuals; and 3 the University of Teesside; Hannah Sheffield College; from teams. Whaley, from the Learning Centre at the ● the Learning Team at Nottingham The panel interviewed the short‑listed University of Dundee. University; entrants and decided to make the Runner up: the PebblePad ● Cristina Isabel Mendes da Costa, award as follows. Development Team from Pebble University of Salford. School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Technology Directorate Learning Ltd, in Wolverhampton. On the next page are full details of this year’s winning and shortlisted entrants at Ufi learndirect

If you or your team have been inspired by the winners from previous years, we encourage you to consider entering for the Awards. Further information about the Awards and how to enter is available at www.alt.ac.uk/LTAwards.

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