Transforming Higher Education Through Technology Enhanced Learning

The book is structured into three sections, with six chapters in each. In the first section the focus is on national policy in technology-enhanced learning, the second is on institutional approaches, and the third looks at how technology is serving new thinking in pedagogy.

Editors - Terry Mayes, Derek Morrison, Harvey Mellar, Peter Bullen, Martin Oliver

Publisher - UK Higher Education Academy

Date - December 2009

Link - www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/ourwork/learningandtech/transforming_he_through_technology_enhanced_learning

You can download the entire book or individual chapters.

Contents

• Introduction
• Section 1 - National policy in the technology-enhancement of higher education
  • Chapter 1 - The policy landscape of transformation (Jane Plenderleith and Veronica Adamson)
  • Chapter 2 - Quality assurance, enhancement and e-learning (Harvey Mellar and Magdalena Jara)
  • Chapter 3 - The Benchmarking and Pathfinder Programme and its role in institutional transformation (Derek Morrison)
  • Chapter 4 - All in the mind: programmes of the development of technology-enhanced learning in higher education (Terry Mayes)
  • Chapter 5 - Transformation through technology-enhanced learning in Australian higher education (Shirley Reushle, Jacquie MacDonald and Glen Postle)
  • Chapter 6 - An exploration into key issues in the adoption of good practices in virtual campus and e-learning related initiatives (Mark Stansfield and Thomas Connolly)
• Section 2 Institutional transformation of learning and teaching through technology
  • Chapter 7 - Benchmarking e-learning in UK universities: the methodologies (Paul Bacsich)
  • Chapter 8 - Intermediaries and infrastructure as agents: the mediation of e-learning policy and use by institutional culture (Laura Czerniewicz and Cheryl Brown)
  • Chapter 9 - Mind the gap: staff empowerment through digital literacy (Susan Westerman and Wayne Barry)
  • Chapter 10 - The Carpe Diem journey: designing for learning transformation (Alejandro Armellini, Gilly Salmon and David Hawkridge)
  • Chapter 11 - The Change Academy and institutional transformation (Irene Anderson and Peter Bullen)
  • Chapter 12 - The role of research in institutional transformation (Harvey Mellar, Martin Oliver and Christina Hadjithoma-Garstka)
• Section 3 Transformation through technology-enhanced pedagogy
  • Chapter 13 - The impact of learner experience research on transforming institutional practices (Rhona Sharpe)
  • Chapter 14 - A blueprint for transformational organisational change in higher education: REAP as a case study (David Nicol and Steve Draper)
  • Chapter 15 - Learners in control: the TESEP approach (Andrew Comrie, Keith Smyth and Terry Mayes)
  • Chapter 16 - Scoping the connections between emergent technologies and pedagogies for learner empowerment (Richard Hall and Heather Conboy)
  • Chapter 17 - Podcasting for pedagogical purposes: the journey so far and some lessons learned (Jethro Newton and Andrew Middleton)
  • Chapter 18 - Digital storytelling and its pedagogical impact (Phil Gravestock and Martin Jenkins)