 That's important in our society because we face challenges in making education more accessible to a wider range of people on a more equitable basis at lower costs, wherever possible and technology can make that happen. My name is Rachel Beckett. I'm head of Special Collections and associate director of the John Lyons Library at the University of Manchester. Augmented reality is a really Fy enw yn dwy'r cyllid gweithio'r material o gweithio'r wrth i'w pethau i gyd ymddangos, ac yn ymgyrchu'r newydd a'r i-pad. Yn y ffrindig, yma, mae'r technologi wedi'u chyfeidio'r cyllid rhai a'r hynny'n ddweud bod yn ymgyrch o ddweud ymgyrchol yn ymgyrchol o'r material ar gyfer y gyrch. Mae hynny'n meddwl ymgyrchol ar yr ymgyrchol yma. Team Scala is a mixed team of academics, technologists and librarians in the University of Manchester. So my involvement was based around the fact that I'm an Italian medievalist who works with the special collections at the John Ryman's Library. There's lots of other information about that material in the form of video, academic articles, catalogue descriptions, digitised versions of that material. Augmented reality allows us to bring all of that together for the benefit of learning or simply understanding and enjoying the collections. By using the augmented reality app we're able to allow students to have a very direct, very visual encounter with the object but to do so in a virtual way. In 2012 we were awarded the joint runner-up prize for the Learning Technology of the Year team award and we won that prize for the work we've done on the Scala project. ALT's recognition of our work in the Scala team has just been absolutely tremendous for all of us. With this recognition we can take it further and tell the world about what we've done. It is very new. Not many people are working in this field and we're very excited to be at the forefront of it. But until we got the award from ALT we haven't really been taken if you like seriously and having that award enabled us to really springboard onto other opportunities and take the work further. ALT offers openness, new ideas, credit and recognition. It's a very powerful seeding ground for the sorts of ideas and developments that we've achieved with ALT. It's about having access to the conference and the network of people that attend that conference. They come from all over the world. Joining couldn't be easier. You can do it online. Membership fees start from £10 a year. If you don't join ALT you're missing out on a very important opportunity within your career to actually start connecting with a very useful community of people, a very knowledgeable community of people. A community that can actually really help you with what you're doing. You've got a network there that is personal to you that enables you to develop yourself and your contacts. I'd say it's completely changed the direction of my career. ALT is about people. It's about the network. It's about the community. You're now able to talk to them or even learn from them about what works and what doesn't work is really valuable and important. I can't even emphasise how important it is to feel part of the community because I know that if I run into any difficulty or if I have questions, it's a very cooperative community. It's part of a very lively, alert, intelligent community that mixes learning technologies with teachers and researchers. I think it's the greatest benefit is things like the ALT members' discussion list where I can get information when I need it really easy. I can pose a question there and I will get lots of really informative and helpful responses. It's enjoyable, it's human and it's unlimited. Accessibility and participation across different communities is a big part of what technology can achieve. Technology really has the potential to change education across the globe and it's incredibly exciting.