LKL's Tim Neumann and Kit Logan are members of the Bloomsbury Learning Environment Technical Team, which was highly commended in the 2010 Learning Technologist of the Year Award at ALT-C in Nottingham.
(photograph above by Mark Gregory, published under Creative Commons licence)
Winners of the awards were†Cristina Costa from the Research and Graduate School at the University of Salford and Kevin McLaughlin from St Peter's Church of England Primary School, Whetstone, Leicestershire in the individual category, and the TALL team from the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford in the team category, but other individuals and teams were recognised for their work and impact as well.
Highly commended
The Bloomsbury Learning Environment (BLE) Technical Team comprises the e-learning teams from five institutions of the University of London (Birkbeck, the Institute of Education, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Royal Veterinary College, and the School of Oriental and African Studies). The teams collaborate as a group to provide services across all five organisations.
Learning Technology Fellows Tim Neumann and Kit Logan, both from the LKL-based Learning Technologies Unit, are representing the Institute of Education, University of London, on the BLE Technical Team.
Judges' comments on the BLE Technical Team
"The way in which the services collaborate, negotiate together and share services and their support is exemplary. It is likely to be a model that will occur more in the future. The saving on acquisition maintenance and support costs for products is substantial. The flexibility of those within the team and the technological approach taken make for a quality of service across the five institutions that would not otherwise be achieved."
The judges were impressed by:
- the way in which five somewhat disparate organisations had been able to work together and agree on products to be acquired and their ongoing support arrangements;
- the programme of joint events and workshops;
- the balance between development and involvement with the community.†
About the Learning Technologist of the Year Award
ALT's Learning Technologist of the Year Award celebrates and rewards excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field. The Award was presented at the ALT conference in Nottingham in September 2010 by
Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Newcastle.
For more information, see the ALT Website at:
http://www.alt.ac.uk