Innovative primary teaching and learning and a massively popular games-based learning website shared the honours for the Learning Technologist of the Year Award 2011 presented at the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) annual conference in Leeds this week.

Oliver Quinlan, formerly a teacher at Robin Hood Primary School, Birmingham, and now lecturer in education at Plymouth University, is recognised for effective work using collaboration technologies (including class blogs and Google docs). He shares the award with John Rutherford, of Marlborough School Science College, St Albans, who created the What2Learn website which features more than 70,000 learning games created by teachers from around the world (it gets up to 50,000 page views per day).