Technology Enhanced Learning

This module will introduce participants to a range of digital technologies for teaching & learning This module will allow for practical hands-on use of modern up-to-date technologies, reflection of best practices in various type of digital teaching environments (online, blended. flipped ) . This module will also give the participants the opportunity to review best practice and to consider how TEL tools / various technologies can enhance the students engagement and ability to achieve the learning outcomes more effectively.

1. Critically evaluate digital teaching best practice, theories and models concerning the relationship between technology and learning.

2. Compare and contrast a range of TEL tools and digital technologies to enhance teaching in the higher education sector.

3. Evaluate the effectiveness of various digital teaching strategies and technologies in the context of the lecturers teaching practice.

4. Develop reusable digital teaching resources for teaching purposes. These resources will be underpinned by the principles of universal design for learning.

5. Effectively select and use appropriate technologies in their own teaching.

6. Develop a comprehensive learning environment, which would incorporatate a range of resoucres, appropriate for a specific group of learners.

7. Design and deliver an online microteaching session, using suitable web-conferencing software.