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What is Technology Enhanced Learning?
Technology enhanced learning (TEL) is the application of analogue and digital technologies to enhance learning experiences. This TEL research collaborative investigates concepts such as technology integration, blended learning, online learning and eLearning. TEL has the capacity to improve education, training and mentoring in regional, rural and remote communities.
Effectively applying TEL requires educators, trainers and mentors to have knowledge of a broad range of digital and robotics’ technologies and an understanding of how teaching and learning can change when technologies are used in particular ways. This includes knowing the pedagogical affordances, implications and constraints of a range of technological tools as they relate to disciplinary and developmentally appropriate pedagogical designs and strategies.
TEL is conceived as a combination of an educator’s practices and understandings around learning and teaching, paired with the appropriate use of technological tools to achieve pedagogical aims and maximise learner outcomes and experiences. Pedagogical aims include learners as co-creators, and educators as connectors and collaborators. Leadership and implementation of technology enhanced learning potentially positively impacts first year experience (FYE), workplace integrated learning (WIL) and employability.
What is the Technology Enhanced Learning Collaborative (TELC)?
TELC is a research program team (RPT) based at the University of Southern Queensland that will examine how technology can be made integral to learning and to enhance different forms of formal and informal education. It will also explore ways that technology can assist learners to be connected to their families, friends, peers, and educators. Topics might include:
- Workplace TEL
- Online mentoring
- Early childhood TEL for learners and parents
- K – 12 (Primary and high school) TEL
- Online makerspaces
- Boarding schools and community connections through technology
- Higher Ed TEL
- VOC TEL access to electronic information
- Supporting interactions among learners outside of formal teaching
- Educator learning and capacity building TEL
- E-safety, digital citizenship, cyberbullying
- Access to learning resources
- Access to educational support
- Maintaining contact with off-campus learners
- Supporting interactions between learners and informal learning opportunities
- Supporting interactions between learners and their families when studying away from home.
- Simulation and immersive experiences
- Virtual labs
