What Can Nepal Learn from the Latest UK Technology-Enhanced Teaching & Learning?
Authors: Tee, S.
Conference: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUALITY EDUCATION IN FEDERAL NEPAL
Dates: 23-24 February 2018
Abstract:Technology is changing all aspects of our daily lives, perhaps nowhere more so than in education. The World Economic Forum suggests we are in the midst of a 4th revolution in which the boundaries dividing the physical and digital worlds are growing less defined. This creates in our students, who are exposed to increasingly advanced technology, high expectations. Technology Enhanced Learning refers to the support of any learning activity through technology, irrespective of the pedagogical approach. In the UK, five key development themes - flexibility, choice, synchronous/asynchronous learning, gamification and blended modes of delivery- are driving developments that are viable and scalable and fit well with a federal mode of organization.
At Bournemouth University we have a clear strategic approach to developing staff, transforming curriculum, innovating and raising awareness of the power and possibility of technology. With a focus on personalization, allowing students to build their own academic space, we are adopting a wide menu of new technologies that impact positively on all aspects of the student journey, allowing the student to engage and manage their own learning at a pace and location that suits them.
The different technologies employed can promote higher forms of thinking rather than just remembering facts and whatever the lecturers preferred teaching philosophy and whatever the situation demands, there is range of cheap technological solutions that can be applied to engage and motivate students. In particular Augmented and Virtual Reality, which integrates digital information with live video or the user’s environment in real time, is a powerful engagement technique for students.
However as with any major shift in custom or practice, there are institutional challenges – which require students to be prepared to take responsibility for their learning and staff helped to manage the wide array of technologies available that make Technology Enhanced Learning a reality.
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