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The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) is a United Kingdom professional body and scholarly association. ALT brings together people and organizations with an interest in the use of learning technology. ALT was founded in 1993 and is a registered charity (Charity Number 1063519).

Contents 1 Aims 2 Membership 3 Publications 4 Activities 5 External links

ALT aims to:

• represent and support its members, and provide services for them;
• facilitate collaboration between practitioners, researchers, and policy makers;
• spread good practice in the use of learning technology;
• raise the profile of research in learning technology;
• support the professionalisation of learning technologists;
• contribute to the development of policy.

ALT has over 200 organisational and sponsoring members, and over 500 individual members. Organisational members include the majority of the UK's universities. Sponsoring members include most of the UK's funding councils, for example the Learning and Skills Council, public sector agencies such as JISC and the Higher Education Academy, and companies such as Blackboard and Toshiba. Individual members are mainly based in UK public sector education. There are two categories of individual member: Member, and Certified Member (CMALT), under a scheme which has operated since 2005.

• ALT-J - Research in Learning Technology an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to research and good practice in the use of learning technologies;
• regular responses to consultations relating to learning technology and e-learning – most of these are available on the ALT web site at http://www.alt.ac.uk/documents.html;
• a fortnightly members' email digest;
• a quarterly printed Newsletter, ALT-N, available also in web format at http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/.

ALT's activities include:

• ALT-C, which is the UK's main conference for learning technologists, see http://www.alt.ac.uk/past_alt-c.html;
• workshops and occasional smaller conferences;
• certification of members under the CMALT scheme, see http://www.alt.ac.uk/cmalt/;
• working in partnership with other organisations, such as JISC, see http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=partner_alt.

• The Association for Learning Technology
• CMALT