What is technology-enhanced learning?

What is technology-enhanced learning?

1. Using technology in appropriate ways:

   • That make learning more engaging
     • That upskill learners by its adoption
       • That increases knowledge retention
         • That makes learning more accessibility-friendly

2. Utilising new and improved methods of delivering material

3. Making learning available in a range of formats

   • e-Learning
     • Videos
       • Digital workbooks
         • Blended
           • Flipped classrooms
             • Virtual / augmented / mixed realities
               • Simulation

4. Enabling learning to be asynchronous

   • Step away from traditional 'chalk and talk'
     • 'Moving with the times' - increasingly digital world

5. Using digital assessment methods

   • Reduces / removes human error

6. A challenge to traditional pedagogies / andragogies / heutagogies

7. Building in the ability for learners to go at their own pace

8. "any online facility or system that directly supports learning and teaching. This may include a formal VLE, an institutional intranet that has a learning and teaching component, a system that has been developed in-house or a particular suite of specific individual tools."

   • (UCISA 2008UCISA (Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association). 2008. “2008 Survey of Technology Enhanced Learning for Higher Education in the UK.” http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/~/media/Files/publications/surveys/TEL%20survey%202008%20pdf [Google Scholar] )

9. ‘TEL’, has become a widely accepted term in the UK and Europe for describing the interface between digital technology and higher education teaching, to a large extent taking the place of other recently popular terminologies such as ‘e-learning’, ‘learning technology’ and ‘computer-based learning’.

   • Sian Bayne (2015) What's the matter with ‘technology-enhanced learning’?, Learning, Media and Technology, 40:1, 5-20, DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2014.915851