Terry’s Blog

The ESRC’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) has just released details of a forthcoming call for bids for research on technology enhanced learning. Reading through the announcement underlines just how the Elgg community here has anticipated what is gradually becoming mainstream thinking.

Here are some quotes:

To achieve the highest ambitions for education and lifelong learning we need to exploit fully what new technology offers – for personalising learning and improving outcomes, for including more learners in education and lifelong learning, for creating more flexible learning opportunities and for improving the productivity of learning and knowledge building processes. But to do this, we need a more explicit understanding of the nature of learning itself, both formal and informal, and the way it is responding to changes in society and the opportunities created by new technologies. (my emphasis).

The reference to personalising here is quite new and George Siemens has been telling us for a long time now that the nature or learning is changing in response to profound changes in society.

The challenge for the new research community this funding is helping to create

..will be to develop innovative applications of digital technologies that will contribute to making education and lifelong learning more personalised, inclusive, flexible, and productive.

Quite so.

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