The themes for this year's conference are:

• Connecting data and analytics to enhance learning and teaching: exploring possibilities and making links.
• Collaboration and innovation in the open: taking risks, sharing lessons and the importance of open practice.
• Creating new learning, teaching and assessment opportunities: play, experiment, discover, embed to enhance learner experiences.

Also, the:

• Wildcard: Learning Technology is everywhere… you are free to contribute any aspect of your research, practice or policy work.

The conference will be chaired by Professor Nicola Whitton, who leads the Professional Learning Research Group at the Education and Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University and Alex Moseley, a National Teaching Fellow based in the Leicester Learning Institute, University of Leicester.

Confirmed speakers:

• Josie Fraser, Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Programme, Leicester City Council;
• Ian Livingstone CBE, Chairman of Playdemic, Chairman of Midoki and Chairman of Sumo-Digital;
• Lia Commissar, Wellcome Trust;
• Jane Secker, London School of Economics;
• David White, University of the Arts, London and Donna Lanclos, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Registration:
The 'Early Bird' deadline for the 23rd Annual Conference of the Association for Learning Technology has been extended to 14 July 2016. Early bird registration offers a significant discount across all conference fees. ALT members are also entitled to a further 20% discount on attendance.

Booking: http://go.alt.ac.uk/2016altcReg

Draft programme:
The first draft of the conference programme has been published at https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2016/programme/.

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