The document discusses the relationship between technology-enhanced learning (TEL) and teaching excellence, emphasizing that human involvement is essential for effective learning enhancement. It highlights various strategies for fostering digitally capable educators, such as integrating digital literacy into the curriculum and hands-on staff development. Additionally, it critiques the misconception that technology alone drives educational improvement, advocating for a balanced approach that values pedagogical methods alongside technological adoption.

1. How does technology-enhanced learning
contribute to teaching excellence?

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How does technology-enhanced learning
contribute to teaching excellence?
Sarah Davies,
Head of higher eduaction and student experience, Jisc
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3. How do staff engage with institutional
infrastructure designed to promote excellent
teaching with learning technologies?
Professor Rhona Sharpe
Oxford Brookes University
Digifest
March 2017@rjsharpe elesig.net

4. My interests
#LERMOOC53 ways to
support online
learning
Developing
digital leaders

5. Finding out what learners actually do . . .

6. . . . means understanding the context in
which learning takes place

7. ‘Literacy’ implies socially and
culturally situated practices,
often highly dependent on
the context in which they are
carried out.
(Beetham & Oliver, 2010)
Developing digital literacies

8. unconnected
vulnerable
access-led
assessment of
skills is ongoing
mainstream
pragmatists
Tutor / pedagogy
/institution-led
Technology used to
develop criticality,
self-management
intensive and
specialist
enthusiasts
Learner-led
Technology-led
Social digital literacy
practices are valued
and new practices
made explicit
Learners
who are
Experience
the digital
environment
as:
Best
supported
where:
https://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org/wp/fe-and-skills-digital-student-study/fe-digital-students-key-
outputs/
The Learner and their Context, Becta
Chris Davies and Rebecca Eynon
FE Digital Student Study

9. unconnected
vulnerable
access-led
assessment of
skills is ongoing
mainstream
pragmatists
Tutor / pedagogy
/institution-led
Technology used to
develop criticality,
self-management
intensive and
specialist
enthusiasts
Learner-led
Technology-led
Social digital literacy
practices are valued
and new practices
made explicit
Learners
who are
Experience
the digital
environment
Best
supported
FE Digital Student Study
https://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org/wp/fe-and-skills-digital-student-study/fe-digital-students-key-
outputs/

10. Conceptions of individual
teaching excellence
“being dynamically engaged
in teaching practice and
inspiring and practically
scaffolding the potential
dynamic engagement of
one’s student”
Gunn & Fisk (2013) p.23

11. Relationships between digital
capability and teaching excellence
Austen et al (2016)
“Digital capability can promote
teaching excellence by avoiding
technological determinism while
putting pedagogy first.”
“… resisting the notion that
technology is the principal
motivation for change rests with
both teacher and institution.”

12. What strategies can educational leaders use
to facilitate the development of digitally
capable excellent teachers?
Which:
Recognise the role of context in shaping digital practices
Convince colleagues of the pedagogic value of TEL and
support them to develop new pedagogies
Build confidence in using technology
Encourage exploration and experimentation
Scaffold dynamic engagement with CPD and learners

13. Some ideas from Oxford Brookes
1. Defining and developing
digital literacy through the
curriculum.
2. Technology enhanced CPD
3. Course Design Intensives
4. Digital Choices Matrix
Neil Currant George Roberts
Mark Childs Richard Francis

14. A. Plan for the inclusion of ICT resources within the
teaching of classes of primary-aged children
B. Application of IT skills within a technical or
commercial environment, particularly CAD systems
and data transfer between such systems.
C. Gather, organise and deploy a variety of digital
sources pertaining to the subject.
D. Present to an audience using appropriate media.
Evaluation Part 1
Staff Engagement
Defining digital literacy within the disciplines
With your neighbour, can you identify the disciplines?

15. A. Primary Teacher Education
B. Computer aided Mechanical Engineering
C. International Relations
D. Philosophy
Evaluation Part 1
Staff Engagement
Defining digital literacy within the disciplines

16. Developing the digital practitioner
Liz Bennett, University of Huddersfield
Bennett (2014) based on Sharpe & Beetham (2010) and Ecclesfield, Rebbeck, & Garnett (2012)
Experimentation
and appropriation
- Confident
- Prepared to take
risks
- Willing to explore
Belief in the
pedagogic
value of TEL
- Convinced by
the potential of
technology to
transform
learning

17. 1. How much has your coursework emphasised
the following mental activities?
2. How often have you done each of the
following?
3. How much has your experience at this
institution contributed to your knowledge, skills
and personal development in these areas?
Engagement questions

18. Developing digital literacy (Student Engagement)
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Critically evaluating
digital sources of
information
Used technology to
collaborate with
others or engage
with online
communities
Used technology to
reflect on and
record your
learning? ]
Using technology in
innovative or
creative ways
2014
2016

19. Graduate Attributes as a measure of learning gain
Learning gain in Active
Citizenship Strategic
Excellence project
ABC Learning Gains
project with OU and
Surrey
abclearninggains.com/openbrookes.net/cci/

20. Online, blended, open, flipped CPD
“For me, the experience has
shown what collaborative
learning is really about
because I have experienced
it properly for myself for the
first time.”
"I enjoyed participating on this course and being part of the
internationalising of a curriculum as it happened - by this I
mean I experienced what many of our international students
do through enrolling in an online course.”

21. Course Design Intensives
Working in extended
teams
Visualising the
learner journey
Challenging designs
through peer review

22. Characteristics
of Course
Design
Intensives
Evidence based
design principles Chickering & Gamson
REAP Assessment Principles
Salmon's FIve Steps
Laurillard Conversational Framework
Community of inquiry
Transformative
Blended learning
Graduate Attributes
Curriculum reform
Assessment Compact
Team based
Professional services
Students
Teaching Fellows
Module leaders
and teachers
Outcome focused
Storyboards
Syllabus
Assessment designs
Online course site
Engaging
Tools
Toolkits
Card sorts
Iterative pre-meeting
eventfollow-up
Shared
critical friends
peer review
Evaluated

23. Digital Choices

24. What next at Brookes?
1. Doing the basics better:
essential digital capabilities
for a range of roles.
2. Transformative goals:
inclusivity, employability
3. Dynamic engagement with
students e.g. devising
expectations for VLE use.

25. Resources
53 Interesting Ways to Support Online Learning available to order
from https://www.brookes.ac.uk/OCSLD/Publications/
Learner Experience Research MOOC (#LERMOOC) Feb – April 2017 at
http://platform.europeanmoocs.eu b
ABC Learning Gains project https://abclearninggains.com
Jisc FE Digital Student projecthttps://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org/wp/fe-
and-skills-digital-student-study/
Developing Leaders for a Digital Age
www.moodle.openbrookes.net
Graduate Attributes in Action.
https://wiki.brookes.ac.uk/display/GAA/Home

26. References
Austen, L., Parkin, H.J., Jones-Devitt, S., McDonald, K. & Irwin B. (2016) Digital
Capability and Teaching Excellence. QAA Subscriber Research Series 2016-17.
Beetham, H. & Oliver, M. (2010) The changing practices of knowledge and learning, in R.
Sharpe, H. Beetham & S. de Freitas, Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age, Routledge.
London & New York.
Bennett, L. (2014) Learning from the early adopter: developing the digital practitioner,
Research in Learning Technology, 22: 21453
Davies C. & Eynon, R. (2010) The learner and their context. Final Report for Becta. University
of Oxford.
Ecclesfield, N., Rebbeck, G. & Garnett, F. (2012) ‘The case of the curious and the
confident the untold story of changing teacher attitudes to e-learning and
‘‘technology in action’’ in the FE sector’, Compass: The Journal of Learning and
Teaching at the University of Greenwich, no. 5, pp. 45 56.
Gunn, V. & Fisk A. (2013) Considering teaching excellence in higher education 2007-2013.
The Higher Education Academy Research Series.
Sharpe, R. & Beetham, H. (2010) Understanding students’ uses of technology for learning:
towards creative appropriation, in R. Sharpe, H. Beetham & S. de Freitas, Rethinking
Learning for a Digital Age, Routledge. London & New York. Available to download from
http://bit.ly/1RhiRNP

27. Learner Experience Research MOOC
started 27 February 2017, #LERMOOC
platform.europeanmoocs.eu

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How does technology-enhanced learning contribute to teaching
excellence?
Paul Bartholomew, Pro vice-chancellor student experience, Ulster University
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29. How does technology-enhanced learning
contribute to teaching excellence?
Paul Bartholomew
PVC Education
Ulster University

30. How does technology-enhanced
learning contribute to teaching
excellence?
It doesn’t.

31. How does technology-enhanced
learning contribute to teaching
excellence?
Thank you

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I think it’s important that I acknowledge that…
>Technology doesn’t enhance learning.
> People do.
> All enhancement activity in Higher
Education requires the deployment of
human labour.
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I think it’s important that I acknowledge that…
> Having a strategy isn’t enough.
> Having an action plan isn’t enough.
> Having a new institutional system isn’t enough.
>Having staff capability isn’t enough.
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In this book:
Chapter: Where’s the humanity?
Challenging the policy discourse
of ‘technology enhanced learning’
“Policy language surrounding technology
enhanced learning embodies a simple
economic calculation: in exchange for the
use of technology there will be enhanced
forms of learning.”
From critical discourse analysis of 2.5 million words ofTEL strategy text
(Dr Sarah Hayes – Aston University)
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• ConceivingTEL as a
commissioned
product leads to
institutional
technical capacity
but under-utilisation
• Conceiving TEL as a
social process is a
precursor to
enhancing learning
And we need policy that reflects that
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Now that I’ve got that out of the way…
How does technology-enhanced
learning contribute to teaching
excellence?
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Teaching Excellence
These are not unreasonable things to want to enhance
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Teaching Excellence
I’ve cherry-picked a few
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Student
Engagement
“Teaching provides effective stimulation,
challenge and contact time that encourages
students to engage and actively commit to their
studies”
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Student
Engagement
Virtual
labs
Simulated
environments
Ge0location
technologies
Augmented
reality
Flipped
classroom
Robotics
and drones
Classroom
clickers
CSCL
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Rigour and
Stretch
“Course design, development, standards and
assessment are effective in stretching students to
develop independence, knowledge, understanding
and skills that reflect their full potential”
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Rigour and
Stretch
Adaptive
VLEs
Flipped
Classroom
Simulation
Online
resources
CSCL
Peer
assessment
Learner
analytics
e-Portfolio
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Feedback
“Assessment and feedback are used effectively in
supporting students’ development, progression
and attainment”
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Feedback
Audio
Video
Digital
annotation
Authentic
assessment
(simulation)
Peer
assessment
Learner
analytics
e-submission
Computer
aided
assessment
e-Portfolio
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Resources
“Physical and digital resources are used
effectively to aid students’ learning and the
development of independent study and research
skills”
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Resources
e-Books Simulation
Virtual
worlds
Laptop
loans
Classroom
technologies
Mobile
devices
Accessibility
throughout
Specialist
software
provision
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Personalised
learning
“Students’ academic experiences are tailored to
the individual, maximising rates of retention,
attainment and progression”
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Personalised
learning
Adaptive
VLE
Flipped
classroom
Learner
analytics
e-Portfolios
Flexible
options
Lecture
capture
Accessibility
throughout
Negotiated
assessments
(e.g. video)
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Employability/
transferable skills
“Students acquire knowledge, skills and
attributes that are valued by employers and that
enhance their personal and/or professional lives”
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Employability/
transferable skills
Virtual
worlds
e-Portfolios
Simulated
interviewing
Simulation
Digital
literacy
Digital
badges
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Positive
outcomes for all
“Positive outcomes are achieved by its students
from all backgrounds, in particular those from
disadvantaged backgrounds
or those who are at greater risk of not achieving
positive outcomes”
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Positive
outcomes for all
Laptop
loans
Accessibility
throughout
Flipped
classroom
Negotiated
assessments
Lecture
capture
Learner
analytics
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Accessibility
throughout
Flipped
classroom
Negotiated
assessments
Learner
analytics
Virtual
worlds
e-Portfolios
Simulation
Peer
assessment
• Individual cases are not good
enough
• There is a need to move from
innovation to mainstream
• That requires evidence of
effectiveness
• How is the evaluation literacy
of our staff?
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At an institutional level, the job is to:
> Nurture an environment that supports and rewards
innovation
> Nurture an environment that is critical, evidence-seeking
and evidence creating
> Recognise the need to deploy human labour
> Develop institutional resilience through policy
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However…
> I do believe that institutional capacity to enhance learning
cascades from individuals’ capabilities
> I think innovation as a practice can be taught
> I think that sort of staff development is worth investing in
> It’s not just about digital capabilities, it’s about ‘change
literacy’
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Thank you
Questions?
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jisc.ac.uk
Except where otherwise noted, this work
is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND
> >
Sarah Davies,
head of higher eduaction and student
experience, Jisc
Dr Rhona Sharpe,
deputy HR director and head of OCSLD,
Oxford Brookes University
Prof Paul Bartholomew,
pro vice-chancellor student experience,
Ulster University
Contacts
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