What is technology-enhanced learning?

Using technology in appropriate ways:
1. That make learning more engaging
  1. That upskill learners by its adoption
    1. That increases knowledge retention
      1. That makes learning more accessibility-friendly
Utilising new and improved methods of delivering material
Making learning available in a range of formats
1. e-Learning
  1. Videos
    1. Digital workbooks
      1. Blended
        Flipped classrooms
        Virtual / augmented / mixed realities
        Simulation
Enabling learning to be asynchronous
1. Step away from traditional 'chalk and talk'
  1. 'Moving with the times' - increasingly digital world
Using digital assessment methods
1. Reduces / removes human error
A challenge to traditional pedagogies / andragogies / heutagogies
Building in the ability for learners to go at their own pace
"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."
1. (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] )
‘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’.
1. 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

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