TE7079 - Technology Enhanced Learning: Practice, Evidence and Debate

Teaching and learning in this module will include a wide variety of strategies to ensure that you have a wide variety of experience. A combination of lectures and seminars will provide you with the theoretical, anecdotal and case study material from which to build discussion and debate.
Opportunities to share and explore experiences and learning with fellow students will form an important part of the teaching and learning strategies in this module, small group learning, presentations, independent study and guided study. The use of online learning resources and group tutorials, together with a range of practical activities are introduced and used to reinforce the learning.

In addition to lectures and supporting resources, support will also include feedback from tutors during small-group seminars and tutorials. In addition, tutors will respond to questions via the module’s discussion board at the University’s eLearning Portal so that the whole group can benefit. You will also be supporting individually in one-to-one tutorials.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
1. Critical understanding of the breadth and complexity of the role of technology enhanced learning in educational contexts

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:

1. Identify an aspect of or a technology and reflect critically on its use in a teaching/learning context
2. Engage with and critically evaluate current research in relation to TEL
3. Critically analyse the impact of TEL on pedagogical practice
4. Critically Evaluate the effectiveness of TEL .
on the learners’ experience.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):

1. Enhanced your communication skills through discussion during teaching and learning activities and your written work for your summative assessment
2. Develop your team working skills through small group work during delivery of the module.

Formative Assessment
Small group tasks and discussion which will include tutor and peer verbal feedback.

Feedback
You will receive verbal tutor and peer feedback

Summative Assessment
You will discuss and critically evaluate technology enhanced learning opportunities and the extent to which they enhance or inhibit teaching and learning.
(4500 words) (KU 1 ) (IPSA 1- 4) (PVA 1)

Feedback
You will receive written feedback using the criteria and the elaborated marking scale.

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In this module you will have the opportunity to explore, in depth, what is meant by ‘technology enhanced learning’ (TEL) and how it impacts on learning and teaching in the 21st century. This includes consideration of the relationship between computer science and TEL; does technology the education process and what does research evidence say in relation to this? You will examine how technologies have impacted on pedagogies and critically evaluate whether TEL enhances or inhibits teaching and learning.