CMALT

For approx 18 months now I’ve been aware of the Certified Membership of the Association of Learning Technologists (CMALT) programme that the Association for Learning Technologies (ALT) offers but have never had the desire to undertake it until recently.

Several months ago during the early (unsuccessful) stages of applying for a new job I was asked to provide evidence as to my progression within my field. Regular readers will know that I was/am unable to provide evidence based upon my day-to-day work due to access and security issues, so instead I directed my recruiter to my blog as I believed (and still do) that it offers an insight into my not only my underpinning knowledge of general L&D but also my ability to use technology to provide additional value and to enhance and enrich the experience for any learners that my work may impact upon.

The recruiter responded by saying that whilst very useful, neither he nor the organisation he was recruiting for had the time to read through all of the blog posts and asked if I could cherry pick 1/2 a dozen those that I thought would be most relevant which I of course did, however this took some time and inevitably I had to omit some posts as I was limited to selecting 6.

It was at this point that I remembered back to the CMALT programme which is defined on the ALT site as:

CMALT is a peer-based professional accreditation scheme developed by ALT to enable people whose work involves learning technology to:

• have their experience and capabilities certified by peers;
• demonstrate that they are taking a committed and serious approach to their professional development.

CMALT holders or Certified Members of ALT are learning technology practitioners, teachers and researchers from across the educational and commercial sectors.

Maybe, just maybe, this could be the accreditation that I need to stand a better chance of landing that next job, so it was as recently as last week that I became a paid-up member of ALT, enrolled on the CMALT programme and undertook their CMALT candidates webinar.

During that webinar it was confirmed to me that submissions did not have to be ‘text’ based, but could take the form of any type of multi-media (other programmes take note!), so needless to say I shall be trying to make my submissions as engaging as I possibly can and of course will be sharing them here on my blog, should any of you be interested.

I’ll keep you posted….

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