Priority investment area - Aim three
Aim Three: Help institutions to improve the quality of learning and teaching and the student experience
| Theme |
Here and now |
Coming soon |
On the horizon |
| For immediate use by the majority of institutions |
Work that will be of most interest to innovators and early adopters with more general take up in 2-5 years |
Longer term investment that may have impact in 3-10 years |
Learning resources |
Examples of effective practice with open educational resources |
Open design and open approaches: guidance on design, re-use and re-purposing of open educational resources in an effective pedagogical context |
Availability of a very much wider range of open educational resources, easily discovered and routinely re-used |
Curriculum enhancement |
Investigating technology in curriculum design and delivery, and the role new technologies can play in enhancing teaching and learning, including Web 2.0, mobile learning, immersive environments and semantic web |
Embedding use of technology and tools in course design and delivery to enhance teaching and learning |
Effective exploitation of the available technology in all aspects of course design, development and delivery; institutional adoption of new business models and strategic processes |
Learning and teaching practice |
Evidence-based guidance on meeting the changing needs, possibilities and practices of learners, teachers and all other stakeholders, including good practice in institutional processes |
Improved understanding of the relationship between different pedagogical approaches and different learning environments, both formal and informal, using different technological tools |
Design and provision of technology-rich physical and online learning spaces, which are accessible and flexible, to reflect the evolving needs and diversity of their users |
Digital literacies |
Investigating learning literacy in the digital world |
Improved delivery and integration of digital learning skills to learners and teachers |
Confident, sustainable and effective use of a mixture of institutionally provided and user-owned technologies by institutions, learners and teachers |
Interoperability and standards |
Informing and consulting with others on the development of technology-enhanced learning systems, standards and policies and piloting new specifications to enable exchange of information between systems (eg XCRI, LEAP2A) |
Network services to support exchange of data between technology-enhanced learning systems |
Widespread deployment by institutions of flexible technical infrastructures that take advantage of service-oriented approaches and shared services |
Openness |
Support and guidance regarding open standards and open-source development processes |
Further guidance on and advocacy of open standards |
Publicly owned data is released openly; major software used by institutions complies with appropriate interoperability standards and is released under an open source licence to allow customisation and improvement |
Lifelong learning |
Exploring the learning and teaching needs of work-based learners and lifelong learners |
Information, advice and guidance to the sector on this and other business and community engagement-related issues |
Support for an education system that helps to meet the needs of Digital Britain and UK plc |