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*Please disseminate to your networks* *With apologies for cross-posting* altc2014 Riding Giants: How to innovate and educate ahead of the wave, 1-3 September 2014, University of Warwick, UK. The 21st annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology will bring together evidence, theory, success stories and critical thinking from across education around five key themes: - Predicting Giants: What are our now and forthcoming big questions, big challenges, and big changes? - Learning to ride: We do not learn on giants but are looking for examples from schools, colleges, universities and other education providers where collaboration and knowledge exchange are successfully used to innovate and educate. In some cases the learning may involve falling off and getting wet. - Evidence on board: How do we move on from being a (virtually) lone rider? Collaborating and collecting evidence at scale (within or between institutions), analysing it and critically assessing the analysis are needed in order to fill the largely missing middle between (research) experiments and full scale deployment. - Staying up, mobile and personal: Learning and Learner Technology have the potential to engage, enable and disrupt. How is digital technology changing the journey and what coping strategies do we have? - All agog: Results that show that we can ride large waves and possibly giants: emerging technology and teaching practice in significant action. Conference co-chairs: Sarah Cornelius, Linda Creanor and Joe Wilson ALT has recently issued 3 calls for the 2014 conference, these are summarised below and available in full at the links. *Joint call to join the altc2014 Programme Committee and Online Conference Coordinators group* If you are a member of ALT, or affiliated with an institutional member or sister body of ALT, we would like to encourage you to apply to become a member of the Programme Committee for this conference. We are also looking to recruit up to 6 online conference coordinators who will help to deliver the conference online and support social media channels. View the full call at http://go.alt.ac.uk/1gK3ak8 Express an interest at http://go.alt.ac.uk/1ct8KpC Deadline for expressions of interest: 24 March 2014 *Call and guidelines for submission of abstracts to altc2014* We invite the submission of abstracts for sessions of the following types: - Standard presentations (15 minutes). These will normally take the form of a 10 minute presentation followed by 5 minutes for questions. - Extended presentations (30 minutes). These will normally involve some audience participation such as in a traditional demonstration session. - Long presentations (60 minutes). These may follow a variety of formats. We are especially interested in innovative and creative sessions. View the full call and guidelines at http://go.alt.ac.uk/1na0fBf Submit an abstract via http://go.alt.ac.uk/1b1IZyn Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2014 *Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Research in Learning Technology* All accepted papers will be published as a Special Issue of Research in Learning Technology, “Riding giants: how to innovate and educate ahead of the wave: Research Proceedings of altc2014”. Research from across education sectors, industry and other disciplines will be welcome, including research focusing on work-based and community learning. We are particularly seeking to encourage submissions from early career researchers and doctoral students from across all related disciplines. View the full call at http://go.alt.ac.uk/1hi8Ikz Submit a proposal via http://go.alt.ac.uk/1jLbos0 Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2014 More information about the 2014 Conference is at https://www.alt.ac.uk/alt-conference/altc2014 @A_L_T #altc