Hawkridge, D., Verjans, S., & Wilson, G. (2012). Editorial for proceedings papers. Research In Learning Technology. ALT-C 2012 Conference Proceedings - A confrontation with reality, 20. doi:10.3402/rlt.v20i0.19205Here are the Proceedings Papers of the 2012 ALT Conference ‘‘A confrontation with reality’’, held in Manchester, England. Each paper reports on a piece of research, possibly in its early stages, states a point of view or summarises an area of work, perhaps giving new insights. This supplement contains 18 papers, an increase over previous years