18th October 2001

Life begins - mailing List

The M25-LT-Group jiscmail created by Jan Smith from the University of London External Programme. The Impetus came from EFFECTS Project (1998-2001) which had included a commitment to "try and develop local networks" as part of its continuation work.

18th October 2001

Group Organisers

The original M25 organisers responsible for setting up the mailing list, scheduling & running the early meetings were Jan Smith, Dave Riley & David Andrew.

3rd December 2001

Inaugural Meeting

The first ever M25 Meeting was held at Senate House, University of London. 18 people attended from 10 institutions: Queen Mary, Imperial College, LSHTM, Royal Holloway, University of London, Bristol, UCL, UNL, Kingston & Goldsmiths. Organised by Jan Smith.

13th June 2002

2nd Meeting

Imperial College London, organised by Dave Riley. Attended by 14 people from 7 institutions.

30th June 2003

NO MEETINGS

Despite a couple of attempts there were no face-to-face meetings held in 2003. The Mailing List was active with posts every month.

19th March 2004

Third Meeting

Held at QMUL, Charterhouse Square. No record of attendance; approx 20.

10th January 2005

Fourth Meeting

Again held at Charterhouse Square, QMUL. Originally due to be hosted at London Met but moved due to academic boycott in place there.

21st July 2005

Diana Laurillard Presentation

Less of a meeting; an M25 presentation at LSE by Diana Laurillard. Event interrupted by July 21st terrorist bombings.

20th October 2005

Educational Simulations

M25 Event at Imperial College focused on DART Anthropology Project & issues of realism in medical simulations.

14th July 2006

VLE-focused Meeting

Held at London Metropolitan University. AM - VLEs; PM - more varied.

26th July 2006

M25 Moodle

A Moodle for M25 was introduced to complement the use of the jiscmail list.

30th June 2007

NO Meetings 2007

No records of any meetings in 2007. Can this be true?

4th February 2008

M25 Facilitators

An slightly more formal role of M25 Facilitator emerged around this time to re-ignite M25-LTG & ensure regular face-to-face meetings took place

9th May 2008

Meeting at Goldsmiths

M25 ventured to south London for the first time...

27th November 2008

First meeting at City

A meeting focused on institutional support for e-learning.

27th March 2009

Meeting on Staff Development

Several presentations & discussions around staff development & engaging staff, held at LSE.

10th July 2009

Beyond VLEs Meeting

At QMUL, theme: "So we have VLEs, what else can we do?" Looking at alternatives and expansions to institutional VLEs.

20th November 2009

M25 heads east

First meeting at UEL, held at Stratford Campus, very well attended (40+?).

23rd November 2009

M25 Ning

Ning replaces Moodle as M25 LTG's online platform, alonside the ever present jiscmail list.

10th February 2010

Wednesday Night Club

First & so far only 'Wednesday Night Club' An M25 meeting that skipped the technology & headed straight to the pub.

19th March 2010

OERs Meeting

City University hosted a meeting focused on open education & OERs.

8th July 2010

Classroom Technologies

Presentations & a hands-on Exhibition at Imperial College.

8th September 2010

M25 ALT-C Dinner

An alternative ALT-C 2010 conference dinner in London for those who stayed home.

29th November 2010

LSE Meeting

A mixed bag of topics at LSE.

30th November 2010

Another facilitator

Colin Loughlin (Kingston) joins the M25 Facilitators / Steering Group.

8th March 2011

VLE review processes

VLE-focused event at UCL. Featured the now infamous Moodle "squirrel of death"

1st July 2011

Resource Locator launched

An M25 resource to highlight free or low cost solutions for educational technologists

7th July 2011

Free Tools Meeting

Regent's College - free tools & OERs.

23rd November 2011

City Mixed Bag meeting

Meeting at City University covering a variety of topics. Sell-out! Attended by 50-participants

23rd January 2012

New Facilitator

Sonja Grussendorf, LSE replaces Matt Lingard.

31st March 2012

(4th) QMUL-hosted Meeting

QMUL edges ahead in the most meetings hosted stakes...

1st July 2012

M25-LT-Group > ALT Regional SIG

M25-LT-Group becomes an Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Regional SiG

11th July 2012

M25 Goes South West

First meeting at Kingston University, drinks by the river.

21st November 2012

First Greenwich Meeting

M25 south-of-the-river again!

1st December 2012

New Facilitator

Leo Havemann from University of London replaces Eoin McDonnell

21st March 2013

First time at RVC

Included Lecture Capture, WebPA & CMALT

11th July 2013

New Facilitator

Antony Coombs (Greenwich) replaced Rose Heaney (UEL) as one of the 5 Facilitators

11th July 2013

Back East

M25 returns to sunny UEL

19th November 2013

First Time at Kings

A well-attended (50+) meeting which shared the day with a MUGGL meeting in the morning.

26th March 2014

Students As Producers

LSE hosted for the (record equalling) 4th time.

2nd July 2014

Learning Design / Barcamp

Mix of long and short presentations at Imperial (4th visit here)

2nd Sep 2014 - 24th Jul 2015

M25LTG meets EMLTG

Joint meeting at Warwick. EM brought sweets. M25 brought themselves.

10th December 2014

Go West

UWL hosts for the first time

24th March 2015

Learning Analytics focus

Senate House hosts biggest meeting yet

24th July 2015

M25 meets at #ALTC

Catch-up at ALT's annual conference in Manchester

11th November 2015

Back at UCL

16th March 2016

Digital Capabilities

Back to QMUL for record 5th time

20th July 2016

Westminster

A cool lecture theatre in a heatwave

29th November 2016

Let's all go down the Strand

In the Council Room at King's

28th February 2017

New Facilitators

Pete Roberts (St George's) and Geraldine Foley (LSE) join the M25 Steering Committee.