ALT-C 98, the Association's fifth annual conference and largest to date, with over 400 delegates, consisted of poster and paper sessions covering the very latest in research into and development of learning technologies. The main body of the conference contained some 35 posters and approximately 80 paper sessions, including discussion workshops. Further subjects included design issues, evaluation and assessment. The HLT have been created for advanced learners of Spanish, catering for a range of very varied learning needs.
Students can work through the tutorials sequentially or dip in to fill gaps in their knowledge.
The HLT are being integrated into the language curriculum through links to oral presentation and essay work, and feedback from students on the pilot tutorial has been positive. Students are attracted by the flexibility of the tutorials, allowing them to learn in a way that suits their individual needs, both by choosing how they work through the tutorials and by the content of the tutorials which can be tailored to their own particular needs. Feedback from teachers has also been positive - the simple template design allows teachers with minimal computer knowledge to create tutorials. Observations on an evolving intranet Another poster session was given by Patrick James from the University of Adelaide. Patrick came to the University of Bristol at the beginning of October to talk about the work going on at Adelaide University as part of LTSS's lunchbyte programme.