 Learning technology is 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 Maryn Deepwell and I'm the Chief Executive of the Association for Learning Technology. ALT is an independent charity and a leading learning technology organisation in the UK. We are a membership organisation and we have about 1200 members across the UK and internationally. We work to improve practice, promote research and influence policy on behalf of our members. If you're a teacher, a manager or a technologist and you work in education, we can help you network with your peers, find out about new technology, what works and what doesn't. ALT offers openness, new ideas, credit and recognition, a really powerful seeding ground for the sorts of ideas and developments that we've achieved with our MOOC. 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. In 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, if I have questions. It's a very cooperative community, part of a very lively, alert, intelligent community that mixes learning technologists with teachers and researchers. I think it's great 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. Enjoyable is human and is 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.