 Ond oedd dweud am meddwl. Rwy'n fwyaf, nad eich damwys ddweud o'i'r lle Gaunt. Phaid i weld, mae'r lle yn ymgyrch o'r sreddod. Mae'n meddwl a'r lle ei weld bywyd a chweithio opod ku'n ein bod nhw wedi'i hefyd, mae eu bod yn dweud sefydlu i'r mwrdd. Yna, oedd yn ddefnyddio'r ei sreddlu sydd wedi wneud yn gwybod yn ei hyffordd yng Nghymru, yn y cynghwil, ein lle'r clywed yw meddwl a'r ddweud. Dyna chi'n cael ei angen bod chi wedi'u gweld i ddechrau Ion. Poed wedi'u gael o'ch cwmuned iawn, ond byddwn ni'n bwrto yn ei ddechrau yma'r gwnaeth a'i eisiau chyrofi ar gyfer o'i cael syniadau ac mae'n cael ei wneud i gyhoeddiol chwarae i gyfreidio y gallwn ni i fod yn hawl i'r iawn, oherwydd i'r unig i'w rhoi'r ffordd. Mae'r beithio ar mawr, Miran. Yn gweithio gyda ni'n mynd i ni gyd wedi bod ni'n ffawr o'r grun fyddion, ac ydw i'r rhan o'i gwrsiaeth yma oherwydd fel gweithio ar gyfer tyde yma o gwbl. Yr hyn y bod, Scott. Cane, mae'r fwy gweithio'r cyfan. Mae'r maesio eich gweithredu hwn oedd ma'n gwirio'r ffordd, felly os ymddych chi'n defnyddio fy mwyn, a'r gweithio'r ei ffordd. Rwy'n cael ei chwyn i hefyd, os ywón y llon i na'r cyfionol ffyng constitutional. Mae dda'r zeshwn eich ddaeth o'n ddefnyddio arwod sy'n gyflawni'r bwysigol iawn i fynd i'ch gael ddefnyddio'r cwmhreifftol ystod o'r rhaid. Ac mae angen i'n cael ei wneud oedd eich cwmhreifftol yn dda'i. Felly mae angen i'r cyfrifiad neu'r cyfrifiadau ar y cwmhreifftol, ond mae'n gweithio'r cwmhreifftol yn amlwgol ar y cwmhreifftol. Mae'n amlwgol gyda'r cyfrifiad cwmhreifftol o'r cyfrifiadau ar y cwrwmhreifftol a'u cyfrifiadau yn y Ddygiadol. Onw'r prysgwys ydych chi wedi'u cael ei gwasanaeth y gofynion yw ti'r ddyrgeithio'r ysgol. Onw'r ddweud o'r gweithio'r ddutyn ni newid i fathod gydacyn invitedh a'r barwod ar hynny. Rwy'n ddu yn gwneud o'r gofynion ar y gofynion, gallw'n gwerthio'r ddutyn i'w'r ddutyn, y gallwn i wneud i'r cyfnod y byddwch yn gwrthod, byddwn i'n ei tîm ni'n mynd i'r byd. Yn y rhwng o'r ysgrifennu i ysgol yng Nghymru, a yw'r ffordd o'r cyfnod yma, a'r cyfnod ar y bydd yma yw'r Unedd? Felly, sut y gallai eistedd y gweithio'r griffwch ar yr ysgrifennu, os ydych chi'n nhw'n ymweld i'r hwn o'r gwirioneddol i ddweud yma'r ysgrifennu? Felly, rwy'n credu bod ein prydysgau that has had such a has had an impact on me and she's just taken a picture, she's going to be shocked now, is Gabby, so Gabby Witthouse your talk, so Gabby had did presented a discourse analysis on the recent government white paper success as a knowledge economy teaching excellence, social mobility and student choice which is the famous white yng Nghymru. First of all, she showed that those words in the title, things like social mobility, student choice didn't feature at all in the bill, which I thought was really funny, but the real take-home message for me was that this paper had a discourse of astud dros yion o'r ysgolach sy'n'i'ch gwybodaeth a hunigirio. Mae'n ddefnyddio'n mynd i dwi'n grate homesen o'r rhan o'r ymlaen o'r lleoedraeth i'r bethau i'r ysgolach a hunigirio. Rydych chi'n ddatblygu bobl sicrhau mai i'r ysgolach, yn ystod ll Beanol yn yr ysgolach sy'n cynnig fel y language sydd. Mae'r language is just at best people are indifferent to that practitioners and people are actually delivering the teaching. At best people are indifferent to that, at worst people are really antagonistic to that. So my take home message, if you like, from this conference is to thinking really carefully about language. Actually Peter Goodyear was talking a little bit about that at the start of his talk this morning. Thinking really carefully about the language that we use in policies and in strategies that will help to actually use the shared language and convey a language with people who are teaching and delivering learning technology on the ground. So that's what I'm going to take and my colleagues from Liverpool can hold me to that and feel free to email me and point out when I've failed to live up to that promise. That's on camera by the way Helen, just saying that. Right. Okay, so the next person then is Jig. My perspective was I've just returned to the UK having been in Australia for six and a half years and I'm now working in the management school here in Liverpool since last Friday. So I've spent longer at the old conference since I've been here than I've spent in my office so far. So it was a great start and thank you very much. I've had a wonderful time meeting up with people and catch up so it's been great. So I've sort of followed some of my interest threads through which were particularly learning design. I was looking for things like systems and futures thinking because that's how I saw bringing the islands of innovation together and particularly ways of using data. So I listened to the keynotes and followed the parallel sessions through with those things in mind. So I've got some of them and I didn't really get others I guess. So in the islands of innovation, nearly everyone who spoke about whatever their topic recognised that we are operating a huge multi-layered complex environments and that you know you can't just do a quick fix from anything and there was all different ways of thinking of that involving stakeholders or trying to get people to collaborate and so on. So I saw that as really people being away even if you didn't label it as such as understanding what we're doing in huge complex adaptive systems in which we are one of the agencies making the change. What I didn't see in that is that complex adaptive systems are constantly moving daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and that we do need to include in our thinking the sort of both short, medium and long term futures and visions because otherwise if you don't have the pathway or some idea of where you're going you go somewhere else that may not be your preferred way. I was absolutely delighted to see the emphasis on design thinking because that is one of the key ways of imagining the future and taking everybody with you and there's nothing to do with being senior, junior, PhD student, whatever your role design thinking helps you to do that and didn't Peter give us a wonderful way of looking and understanding that better this morning but there's been lots and lots of other sessions about design thinking too so I was so happy about that, tools, all sorts of things. I also thought everyone in one way or another was looking to pave the way forward and most addressed a way of reducing complexity through the lens of the learner's experience which is why we're all here actually. So for me there was a fair bit of homesite and insight but I was perhaps looking for a little bit more foresight and a little bit more bringing together oversight so that would be my suggestion that we actually make sure that we return our insight into foresight would be one way. Anyway, some of the insights I especially liked were the people who reported on the unsuccessful and surprising outcomes as well as those that worked because I think as a community we must do that. I'm completely committed to finding ways of failing but you do need to fail fast and learn from them. Quick pilots to create positive spirals. I also like those exploring outside the VLE because the VLE is so normal now. We do need some new normal so I like particularly the VR for example and ways of using that in teaching. There was perhaps rather less on AI than I expected. Perhaps I just didn't choose the right sessions, I don't know. So in summary I did see a bit of a map of the new normal so thank you everyone for that. And a few ways of pointing out our preferred new normal but I am really still looking for those islands to come together to create something new and wonderful and then be normalised. Thank you. Next up we're going to have Jo. Hi, so my name is Jo and I'm going to be talking about what I've seen at this conference from a student's perspective. So firstly I'm really glad to have had the opportunity to listen to some of the talks. They're very interesting and inspiring and as a student it was very comforting to know that there's this tremendous amount of research going on to make our learning experience more enjoyable and accessible. So as a student we really saw technology being incorporated into our studies quite recently. We have lecture capture screens, we've got webcams built into our lecture theatres, we started to use blogs, blogs, forums and a lot of other different platforms that were presented. But again this was quite a recent change so the first thing that surprised me was a lot of this technology was available earlier. So as a student what do I think and this is a very common statement is oh my god I have been playing this much tuition fees and I don't have access to some of the resources that we're presenting. It's almost like a staple comment now isn't it where everything is suddenly related to tuition fees whenever there's a problem with students. So but it's really good to see that this technology is being used more widely across institutions and I suppose it's just like submitting assignments right better late than never. So I had the chance to speak to one of the lovely exhibitors yesterday and we were sort of casually discussing the slow implementation of the technology across institutions and this was a feeling that I noticed came across quite strongly in some of the talks by some of the presenters. So this exhibitor mentioned that the solution to this problem is actually to utilise the student voice which I thought was quite interesting, it's not something that anybody mentioned or that I saw from the presentations that I saw. But for the students to raise their voice and support projects they need to be aware of it. A lot of students aren't really aware of the technology available, they just adapt to whatever their institution provides to them, they will moan about it and say how rubbish it is maybe or they will just get on with it and use it but they don't think of anything that could be available past that so they can't make a suggestion and often there isn't much scope for feedback with regards to technology. But I think this conference has been a fantastic eye-opener from a student's perspective because we really don't have that much involvement with technologies, we see the other side of what everybody's been presenting here. I noticed there was a lot of student participation presented in the development of these technologies but there wasn't much on students advertising these technologies or promoting these technologies. Which is really the best way to get to the students voices. I think this is really important to help overcome this barrier that several institutions seem to have put up that they are reluctant to moving away from traditional teaching and learning methods. So I do feel that it's fantastic what everybody's doing and there is some really amazing stuff and useful stuff out there that students would really benefit from but as well as thinking for the students it'd be really good to make the students aware so that they can help you from their side to promote your technologies and raise awareness about it. But yeah, that's it from me. Thank you. Thanks, Jo. Next up is Hannah. I was quite blessed I think with my option that I was given which was open and considering I worked for the Open University I thought I had it made. Turns out not so much. I actually found the keynotes very interesting. When Bon was talking about what is normal, a we now average is what we now do, the new average and it made me think about in many ways when we talk about open we concentrate a lot on content and it's technology that delivers the open content but in Sean, her keynote, she talked about Yik Yak and she talked about discussions and voting up and anonymity is a different way of open which was a debate that together was keynotes I found quite interesting and then I was in a session yesterday and Becky Dresden said something and we worked together at the Open University and she said no matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you can't make anything absolutely open and that struck me and we thought yes we do everything we can to make it open but even in the languages we present it in, the technologies we present them on the availability of it, it's not always fully open and is that now where we need to go to and I thought I had that again set made and then Leo Huffman gave a really interesting presentation and what I noticed in his presentation and Peter's presentation was the questioning of definitions and I saw it again and again where in this post fake news world that we live in that we question definitions probably twice as much as we did previously and then question them again which is a good thing but Leo's presentation he talked about openness and he talked about open and closed and we went yeah yeah got it open closed and he said okay that's your horizontal what's the vertical on the axis and I've never seen a room go so quiet so quickly and everybody sit there and go I don't know and they all then had to do it as an exercise we all had to draw it out as a set of axes and none of them put pen to paper for a good five minutes out of we don't know and then when we went round the room afterwards every single table gave a different answer there was barely any overlap between one table to another what that axis could be so I'm kind of excited if Leo continues on with this with his PhD work because that's a thesis I want to read I want to know what that axis could be and if that's going to become the new normal so moving forward from that and understanding where open is going to go is something I worry about in the advent of changes of fees and rising fees I've noticed in recent years that VCEs and heads of department when you're looking at open content go how can I monetise that and there's an introduction of capitalism alongside open that I'm not entirely comfortable with and we've seen it with MIX and it happened a few years ago and it started with Corsera and we've seen it move and that's become a new normal with open that we can give you a course for open free but then you could be charged for it at some point and I think we have to think about that moving forward when we're making content and are we really fighting to make sure like Becky said to keep it open as much as we can or will capitalisation take over Thank you very much Hannah Julie Okay so I've been asked to reflect on the institutional perspective in my role of head of educational technology and one of the themes from the conference was about empowerment in learning technology and I felt this came through really strongly in a number of presentations slightly in contrast to Jo's experience as a student so I was really interested in the work that Fiona Handley had done on student technology ambassadors the OU's curriculum design student panel the RISE project from Southampton Solent which focused on empowering students through learning analytics and also notting empowering students by getting them involved in the development of an open resource focusing on the NMC professional coder practice so my take home is about how can we better engage students and empower them to be involved in some of the things Jo was talking about so student panels student ambassadors, student feedback and empowering them through the services we provide such as the learning analytics tools thinking more from an institutional perspective the session that maybe was most closely associated with my particular role was about evidence bases and business cases so Don Passie from Lancaster called for us to consider the evidence that we're presenting and move away from just the affordances of technology and the use cases to looking more at the impact studies and focusing on longitudinal studies rather than single point cases Amber Thomas from Warwick also encouraged us to learn the language of business cases similar to Helen was saying it's about the language that we use and looking at things like cost benefit analysis and return on investment the things that the people with the money actually are going to pay attention to so how can we make a compelling case for the people another thing I really want to look at is a toolkit for strategic change that Neil Morris mentioned so that's definitely something I want to look at when we get back but I think my take home point here is about linking the work we do to some of the strategies and putting it into a language that the powers that we will understand but also we need to look at how we empower our teams so that they understand things like how financing works within an institution and that they're involved in the business cases that we write and look at the projects that are coming up and maybe look at how we focus on projects with impact and not necessarily the niche projects which maybe will have limited impact tell strategies was something that also came up and Michael Flavin from Kings looked at three types of innovation but we need to think about how we use that term innovation so he talked about that a lot of the strategies sort of set out this grand plan for disruption but actually what the meat of it is about enhancing and providing efficiencies now that's not necessarily a bad thing but let's be honest about what we're trying to achieve so for me it's about looking at what strategies we have and how we're going to implement them and how we use that term innovation I was also here presenting my own PhD research and it was great to see so many other people also presenting their PhD research and I think it's a great opportunity for those of us doing research to engage with the community I use it as a way of sort of validating my own findings and I got some excellent feedback from people I'm really excited about the old research award that Maron mentioned last night so it would be great to see how that develops as a way to recognise people who are working through PhDs or master's thesis and encourage people to come to the conference to test things out and finally for me it's about community Maron said we have a very vibrant and collaborative community here and it's been great to see that at the conference both in the sessions and at the break times but also outside there were several presentations about how we maintain that community outside so for example Cardiff's Learning Technologists group bringing together the learning technologists that perhaps slightly disparate across their institution also supporting people to achieve things like the Seamolch support group mentioned by Edinburgh and the Bloomsbury learning environment and of course member groups and SIGs who all met yesterday afternoon finally a plug for my own member group I'm one of the steering committee for the M25 group and it's amazing what we can achieve as a community back in May we started a hackathon to develop a career toolkit so for learning technologists who are thinking well what is my next step we're trying to put together this toolkit and we would love anyone who wants to get involved to help us develop this further with video case studies hopefully it'll be a nice online resource looking at how you can progress but also how we can get people into the community and the steps you might need to take to become a learning technologist so that's my reflection Thanks Julie I didn't get round to as many sessions as I wanted to do over the past three days particularly today I was kind of filling in for some colleagues who unfortunately couldn't be here but I've just got a couple of reflections and I don't want to spend too long because a lot of the points I was going to make have already been covered but I think back to 18 months ago I had to come up with a title for the conference and we come up with this Beyond Islands of Innovation and I had islands in the stream by Dollypartner and Kenny Rogers in my head over and over that we're all kind of separated and I kind of, my hope at that time was thinking surely the work that we were doing at Liverpool at the time surely we're not the only one kind of experiencing these problems and in a nice way it's good to know that we're not it is evidence as we've seen over the past three days lots of other people having that issue so that's a good thing to see in this sense because we're recognising that there is really a problem here and kind of linking to what Julie said we need to do something about it now so kind of looking then if the second part of the title was learning technology how learning technology became the new norm or normal and maybe part of this conference was we're kind of trying to recognise okay well what is this normal stuff now and how are we then going to kind of push forward were we going to go in these new directions and there's lots of stuff I've seen over the past three days to kind of suggest that we're on we're going to be okay I think we're going along some interesting directions I think for me learning space is one of the themes and we put that in because I knew it was quite topical but I didn't realise just how big a part it's actually playing and I've seen that through the three key notes over the past three days my mind has gone completely blank now Bonnie sorry Bonnie if you're watching Bonnie, Sean and Peter today about the kind of learning space and how really important it is and how the VLE and how that is kind of shaping up and I was just in a really interesting session about kind of functional VLE requirements with a young man, I don't know if he's made it here I just kind of done a grounded theory research around looking at the kind of the issues around VLEs and we really need to do something about that for our kind of learning space I think for me my kind of take home is picking back up a supposed coming full circle to what Helen was saying is that for me it's always been this kind of issue of language and are we speaking the same language and being in an academic role formally in an academic role that bridged the kind of the academic and the professional services kind of domains is that there is often an assumption that we are all speaking the same language that we kind of know what we're talking about so I'm kind of coming up the step before we even get to policy can we nail down the definitions can we nail down these simple things that we all kind of take for granted before we then start getting to that policy stage where we're making these rules and regulations that we're expecting everyone to follow when actually people don't really know what we're kind of going from to begin with so they're kind of my kind of take home thoughts from the past three days we now want you to just have a little think so a little bit of audience to participate in before we finish so you will need some form of mobile device and we want you to think about what are you going to do now so you've been here either today two days, three days we've been going to a lot of sessions and we want you to use this hashtag I will and think about what are you going to do when you get back to your institutions what is your kind of next steps given everything you've kind of heard over the past three days you've been hopefully been excited by some of the things that you've seen what are you going to do kind of taking forward from here now and moving forward so we are with my sidekick on the side of Martin going to switch over and have a Twitter wall at some point so we can see these things coming at some point so we'll just leave this up for a second so just take a couple of minutes to think it doesn't necessarily have to be real so what is your one kind of take away thing from the conference I mean we've just shared our perspective from a range of different kind of areas but what's the one thing that's kind of been most pertinent to you that's going to affect your practice or are you going to do kind of going forward so hashtag I will and for those of you watching virtually as well you can join in this as well so hashtag I will and then obviously don't forget the hashtag alt C as well so we'll leave it up for another minute or two just to make sure everyone's got the hashtag and then or maybe not maybe to it Martin don't worry so Marron was first off I like to see that Marron on the ball I like that Marron's take a ways to make sure we continue to grow diverse as a community I completely agree and amplify our voice across the UK and beyond Sheila's going to think more about spaces not necessarily just learning spaces I'm assuming hopefully there's more than two involved Martin's telling me there are more yep so again if you are watching this online you can join in with this as well Martin is telling me there are some more treats that are just not displaying their technical problems but yeah anyone watching please do contribute whether you're in the room in bed, on the beach somewhere please do contribute I will be sure to be at alt C next year details are coming up soon for Marron at work where we'll be going next year I will watch Waterworld that's the one I wanted to go to the Kevin Costa session what factors affecting technology use complex, messy and difficult yeah we've been seeing that and I will listen more I will help write up how a really rich e-learning baseline outputs thanks to all the participants so hopefully Tim's taken something away from this Andrew I use the ABC curriculum designed to also think about resistance as a digital literacy Peter Reid are going to think more about anonymity online and the implications and the challenges and the opportunities in online education that they may bring Beth is going to revisit all the articles links, research, all learning spaces and I just missed the last part of that there and we'll be checking up on this next year by the way as well that's the first session isn't it Marron tells me that making sure people are falling through with their promises sorry yeah follow up on collaborations established I think that's a really good thing I know a lot of people have made some new connections particularly people who've come for the first time and don't let this just kind of be the end of it when you walk out of the room today in that relationship going forward now for me Seymol conversations yeah Alex Spears thinking more about the language in the different ways we need to communicate to get all messages across and push things forward yeah singing from the same hymn sheet as me thinking about the digital literacies needed by informal learners outside institutions I know we've had to kind of HE and FE represented today but another kind of environment facilitating more student active learning get some sleep I think isn't that the only one yeah write up my presentations as a case study again that's one of the themes moving from the practical to the publishable as well so people taking the really good work that they're presenting here and then moving it forward into Alts Journal or other vehicles as well follow up on ideas to enhance my research from friends and colleagues in informal networking chats that's where most of good ideas usually come from and we'll just take one or two more if there is any and then I'm going to ask Marin to come up on stage if she's ready I will be joined by more Wikimedians I think I'm going to have to look at this tweet I didn't get a chance to go to this session when it was on but I'm going to have a look and then the last one I'll take today's assimilating reflect on what I've learned over the past few days and how some of this might be applied to my institution completely agree and with that just like to say thank you very much everyone for coming along to Liverpool over the past three days on behalf of myself and Ellen we've really enjoyed it we hope you have too and as I said genuinely overwhelmed by some of the stuff that we've seen going on here I'm going to pass it over to Ellen so she can do a little bit of just say thank you really to the sponsors and the exhibitors and when you get involved in putting together a conference like this for the first time you probably realise the importance of having those people supporting you and supporting the activity and so our real grateful thanks goes out to them all the presenters all the session chairs the committee we had a local committee in Liverpool and we had a conference committee with people taking part from all over the country and all around the world all the helpers all the conference staff here in Liverpool and particularly to Alts and Maron and Marty especially to Maron I mean you know seriously Maron is so laid back and calm you'd think but very very very well organised so everything's been so well organised the whole 18 months has been fantastic so we're going to I'm going to miss you Maron I have missed to say thank you to the panel that we've just been on the session but it was very Oscar-esque wasn't it so thank you particularly to the panel we put them on the spot and asked them to reflect with relatively short notes I think they did a fantastic job and really helped us to bring this fabulous conference to a close so join me in thanking them as well well I think we can say thank you very much and before you all disappear of the set we'll just have a thank you for Pete and Helen 18 months of work culminating a green notebook in case you're thinking of applying in the future but before we go and leave you all to catch your trains we do want to give you a little preview of what's to come so with that we'll say thank you to you all and I'll invite one of our trustees of Gina McNeill who'll help us launch next year conference because next year everything will be different and next year as we celebrate 25 years we're going to approach things a little bit differently from the last 24 so Sheila and I will give you in a minute a little bit of a sneak preview as we announce the 2018 annual conference and Sheila do you want to tell us what we're going to be doing oh well yeah I'll try I may have let something slip earlier on but yeah really excited it's 25 years since Alt was started and it's going to be a big year for us next year we're going to have a bit do things a little bit differently so we're not going to be telling you everything today but it's going to be the 11th to 13th of September in Manchester and we're hoping that all of you will be part of it again and that you'll bring lots of other people as well and we can really build on what we've done so we're going to have some themes that I think are coming through all our conferences just now we're thinking about openness about participation about collaboration, independence about data and most of all about people but we really want lots of ideas so if you do have any ideas then please let us know because it's our 25th conference we're going to do it slightly differently and it's going to be the trustees are going to be more involved than they ever have been and Martin Weller who's now our president and myself will be leading that so I'm really looking forward to seeing another side of the AltZ conference as well but yeah it's going to be great indeed next year everyone gets to be a co-chair and we hope very much that you will be part of it as you might imagine you can already sign up to volunteer so if you are keen please do go on the website and we'll give you some flyers on the way out so if you are keen to get involved if this has inspired you and we hope very much it's been a valuable three days then please do come and help us make next year a conference that really reflects the practitioners the researchers and the policy makers and our ambitions as a community so that we can amplify our voice even louder than it has been this year and I think with that it just is to me to say thank you to all of you for coming we hope you had a good time with us and we wish you a safe and pleasant journey home okay and just before you go can I just once again on behalf of the trustees and all the members of all and everyone who's been here to just say a huge thank you to Marin and Martin and the whole very small team at all that have put this together and carried them so yeah I think can we just thank them