Utilising new and improved methods of delivering material
Making learning available in a range of formats
e-Learning
Videos
Digital
workbooks
Blended
Flipped
classrooms
Virtual / augmented / mixed
realities
Simulation
m-learning
Enabling learning to be
asynchronous
Step away from traditional 'chalk and
talk'
'Moving with the times' - increasingly digital
world
Using digital assessment methods
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."
(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’.
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