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Is technology-enhanced learning more than a good idea? | University of Birmingham

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Technology Enhanced Learning: More Than Just a Good Idea?
Professor Richard Noss, London Knowledge Lab, University of London

'Much of our time as educationalists is spent in considering how to enhance the teaching and learning of knowledge that has been subject only to minor change over the last century. The development of these curricula was formed by the needs of a pre-computational era, with inert technologies, and forms of representing knowledge that are largely anachronistic. Meanwhile, our students walk around with powerful computers in their pockets, computers that we routinely confiscate or deem inappropriate. Surely the time has come for learning really to be transformed: now that we no longer have to worry about access to hardware, we have other concerns -- design, activities, new relationships between learners and with teachers. I will use examples from the work of the Technology Enhanced Learning programme, a five-year national research effort funded by an interdisciplinary collaboration between two of the UK research councils, to illustrate the point that real educational change is now more than just a good idea.' 

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2013 marked the 10th anniversary of the annual Teaching and Learning Conference at the University of Birmingham which was held over two days, Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 June 2013. It was primarily located in the newly refurbished Learning Centre, with keynote addresses occurring in Haworth 101 and Mechanical Engineering G31.

The event explored tangible outputs from the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) theme and the implementation of a new Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

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