The document discusses a study on educational transformation and technology enhanced learning (TEL) at a university. It finds that while some lecturers are innovating with TEL, many others feel stuck operating the learning management system at a basic level and are frustrated by students' superficial use of online resources. The study recommends taking an ecological approach that views TEL as deeply embedded within teaching practices and organizational cultures, and promotes greater collaboration, professional development, and critical digital literacy throughout higher education.

1. Educational Transformation or
an Emerging Ecology?
Dr Emma Bond & Tim Goodchild
ICERI 2012

2. Our study
• Background to study.
• Key findings.
• Recommendations.

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10. VLE/LMS
Ramsden, A (2011), How are we using Blackboard in Teaching and Learning at UCS? [
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12497737/reports/report_how_using_bbd_at_ucs_may_2010.pdf]

11. Key Findings

16. Lecturer
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18. “…. I am not sure that they are absorbing it
too much as I find that they know the
internet and they know how to use it, and
they take the easy way out and take the first
website that comes up on Google, which is
usually Wikipedia and they still use that and
it frustrates me.”

20. “There is a drive for it, and I can see the
advantages of it, confidence is important, if
you are confident in your own practice and
want to do it …or because you hear someone
in your office who says I just made a
podcast... and you think isn’t that marvelous,
I just talked to 20 students, but there is no
kudos for that. I actually spoke to them
rather than put it on a podcast and stayed in
the office.”

22. "We are stuck in a blackboard rut operating
at a basic functional level. [Lecturers] do not
know what is happening. There are some
talented people …. and they are off on the
horizon, so no point speaking to them as
they are busy and speak in some kind of
futuristic language not for the wider
population.”

23. Recommendations
- changing cultures of learning
1. Understanding the wider ecological relationships
between technology and learning.
2. TEL deeply embedded within practice from initial
teacher training to ongoing professional
development.
3. Greater collaboration within the organisation
regarding teaching and learning spaces.
4. Encourage a critical awareness of digital literacies
throughout the H.E. ecology.

24. An ecological approach
“Diverse and complex relations
organised into different habitats.”

25. Dr Emma Bond & Tim Goodchild
Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer
e.bond@ucs.ac.uk t.goodchild@ucs.ac.uk