UK: Higher education must learn from good tech practice around the world
The UK's Higher Education Policy Institute has published a new report, Rebooting Learning for the Digital Age.
The report has reviewed best practice in HE around the world to show how adopting digital tech can benefit universities and their students. It concludes that the benefits of adopting tech in this way is a rare example of a policymaking win/win/win. Universities can simultaneously improve their education offerings, cut their costs and help students.
7 recommendations
- Institutions should ensure that the effective use of technology for learning and teaching is built into curriculum design processes.
- The UK higher education sector must develop an evidence and knowledge base on what works in technology-enhanced learning to help universities, faculties and course teams make informed decisions.
- Institutions that do not currently have learning analytics in place should plan to adopt them at the earliest opportunity.
- Researchers should consider how the learning analytics big dataset can be harnessed to provide new insights into teaching and learning.
- Digital technology should be recognised as a key tool for HE.
- HE institutions should ensure the digital agenda is being led at senior levels – and should embed digital capabilities into recruitment, staff development, appraisal, reward and recognition.
- Academic leads for learning and teaching should embrace technology-enhanced learning and the digital environment.
(This is an edited version of an article originally published on Information Today Europe.)
The full report can be downloaded here.