The changing face of technology enhanced learning

Abstract

The digital ecologies we employ are changing because the way we are teaching is changing. As we have seen the role of students become far more central and a greater emphasis being placed on active, authentic and collaborative modes of teaching and assessment, we have found new tools and techniques to help us with these tasks; performed predominantly online. Notwithstanding, the reasons for engaging with these new tools is based on sound pedagogical foundations, not on the affordances of the tools perse.