Bob Harrison finds assessment stirring feelings at the ALT-C conference
“Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate” could have been the title of a letter from Sugata Mitra, last year’s Association for Learning Technology (ALT) conference keynote speaker, following his move to Newcastle University from his home in India.

However, it was the title of this year’s gathering of more than 500 further and higher education learning technologists for the ALT-C 2011 event at Leeds University. And the challenging climate is economic rather than the approaching winter.