ABOUT TECHNOLOGY-ENABLED LEARNING
NEW FORMS OF LEARNING FOR THE 21st CENTURY
Technology-enabled learning (TEL) has the power to transform both teaching and learning in classroom-based, online, and blended education by introducing the digital tools and resources 21st-century learners will need in order to explore, understand, and express themselves.
These technologies, including computers, the internet, social media, mobile and tablet devices, and open educational resources, can bring fundamental structural changes. They can transform teaching by creating new, connected relationships between teachers, students, and content to improve instruction and create a more personalized form of learning. Applied well, TEL has the potential to expand learning opportunities, enrich experiences, and support greater equality of access around the world.
In particular, TEL can be used to develop six main digital skills: communication, information search, collaboration, creation, assessment, and personal or professional development. It may also include learning about the technology itself as a subject, but its primary focus is on increasing learner engagement and access across all these essential skills for our new century.
Building upon the Community of Inquiry framework as a theoretical foundation, TEL incorporates additional frameworks, such as TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge) and TIM (Technology Integration Matrix), to bring pedagogy and technology together and to address the highly complex process of knowledge creation in diverse and unique contexts. It also draws strongly upon the open education movement, involving open educational resources (OER) and open licenses; the collaborative process of creating, sharing, and revising OER promises not only higher quality but also more locally-appropriate learning materials open to all.
These technologies, including computers, the internet, social media, mobile and tablet devices, and open educational resources, can bring fundamental structural changes. They can transform teaching by creating new, connected relationships between teachers, students, and content to improve instruction and create a more personalized form of learning. Applied well, TEL has the potential to expand learning opportunities, enrich experiences, and support greater equality of access around the world.
In particular, TEL can be used to develop six main digital skills: communication, information search, collaboration, creation, assessment, and personal or professional development. It may also include learning about the technology itself as a subject, but its primary focus is on increasing learner engagement and access across all these essential skills for our new century.
Building upon the Community of Inquiry framework as a theoretical foundation, TEL incorporates additional frameworks, such as TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge) and TIM (Technology Integration Matrix), to bring pedagogy and technology together and to address the highly complex process of knowledge creation in diverse and unique contexts. It also draws strongly upon the open education movement, involving open educational resources (OER) and open licenses; the collaborative process of creating, sharing, and revising OER promises not only higher quality but also more locally-appropriate learning materials open to all.
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TPACK
The framework and TPACK Academy repository
Technology Integration Matrix
Florida Center for Instructional Technology
Teaching in a Digital Age
A.W. (Tony) Bates
Open Textbook Project
