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Educational Technology Strategy

Dan Peters

Senior Manager of Solutions Engineering

@danspeters

A Declaration: The value proposition of educational technology should be better education

Better education is inextricably tied to better experience

Norman & Schmidt, “The psychological basis of problem-based learning: a review of the evidence”Rogoff, “Developing understanding of the idea of communities of learners”Barron et al, " Doing with understanding: Lessons from research on problem- and project-based learning”)

“...if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our childrenof tomorrow.”John Dewey

UK HE Survey of Digital Capabilities

Challenges:

• Definition

• Only 11 of 63 responding institutions have a senior member of staff with responsibility for defining digital strategies

Solutions:

• “Institutions should adopt a whole-institutional approach and embed digital capabilities into all strategies, including Estates, HR, Finance, as well as Library, IT, Academic Development etc.”

• “Institutions must obtain active senior management sponsorship to drive the successful embedding of digital capabilities throughout the organisation.”

http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/digcap

So What?

There are pockets of great practice everywhere – many challenges in how to reward great practice when it comes to teaching

October 2014 report to the European Commission on New Modes of teaching in higher education – 15 recommendations

http://ec.europa.eu/education/library/reports/modernisation-universities_en.pdf

Thank You

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