Digital Trends in Higher Education
Channel: Technology Enhanced Learning MTU
Date: 02/03/2023

New technology trends and practices can often present both challenges and opportunities for higher education. Recent developments around AI and chatbots, big data analytics, digital credentialing and the sharing of openly-licenced educational resources, to name just a few, all suggest new ways in which teaching, learning and assessment can or should be organised. The recent global experience of emergency remote teaching and the continuing massification of online learning continue also to provoke discussion and concern with respect to the changing needs and expectations of our students and the increased globalisation and marketisation of higher education itself.
How are higher education institutes navigating these challenges and opportunities and how can we distinguish the hyperbole from the reality? On March 2nd the Department of Technology Enhanced Learning held a short Q&A-style seminar to talk about all this with our guests Professor Frank Rennie and Dr Leigh Graves Wolf.

Welcome/Introductions 00:00 
Barriers that online learning tackles 03:11
Sustainability and digital learning 07:00
Opportunities and challenges of scaling up digital learning 09:22
Chat GPT 17:37
Virtual and augmented reality for education 29:21
Universal Design for Learning 34:15 
Learning analytics 40:52
Are higher education institutions fit for 21st-century teaching and learning needs? 46:38
How can universities and small towns survive reduced footfall? 50:10
Are we privatising education bit by bit? 54:10
Top skills for online teaching 57:52