“How do we encourage even greater use of e-learning?”

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This is not my big question, but one that has been asked many times before.  Each time we reach an e-learning milestone, e.g., all departments making use of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), or presiding over 65% annual increases in the use of E-Assessment, Senior Management ask it once more.

I have answers to that question, but these in turn ask further questions.  So my big question is in fact threefold:

• How do we facilitate active staff and student ownership of institutional services?
• How can staff and students move beyond the basic use of the VLE?
• How can research intensive Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) encourage and recognise e-learning activity among the staff?

My selective TEL experiences.I’ve been a victim and/or a perpetrator of TEL for about 23 years now.  Sorry, let me begin again. I’ve a wealth of experience – in what I now find myself referring to as Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) – as a learn…