September ALT Conference. Keynote and Invited Speakers.

The ALT conference "Into something rich and strange" - making sense of the sea-change is approaching fast. (I work for ALT half-time.) Today we published summaries of the sessions of our keynote speakers and invited speakers, whose pictures are shown above.  Keynote speakers will be Donald Clark, Barbara Wasson, and Sugata Mitra, with a welcome from Saul Tendler.  Invited speakers will be:

1. Hans-Peter Baumeister, Co-Director of the European School of Business's Research Institute at Reutlingen University, Germany;
2. Heather Fry, Director of Education and Participation, HEFCE;
3. Sudhir Giri, Head of Google Learning Labs;
4. Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor, University of Salford;
5. Frank McLoughlin, Principal, City and Islington College;
6. Aaron Porter, President, National Union of Students;
7. Josie Taylor, Director, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University;
8. David White, Senior Manager: Development, Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford.

The conference will take place in Nottingham. You can book to attend (day-passes are available) until 19 August, and there is also a three page PDF with a summary of the conference timetable.