What's Going On With Technology
'Increasingly, all our learning environments are beginning to coalesce via the ubiquitous computer. It provides visual stimulus, audio provision, read-write materials and increasingly a virtual world, which means that a student can appear to be umbilically connected to life via a screen. Access to technology is at the centre of much of our planning.'
Helen Gale, University of Wolverhampton10
Helen Gale, University of Wolverhampton10
'With the appropriate use of technology, learning can be made more active, social and learner-centred - but the uses of IT are driven by pedagogy, not technology'
Diana and James Oblinger, Is It Age Or IT14
Diana and James Oblinger, Is It Age Or IT14
Elsewhere in this infoKit we have stressed the importance of co-ordinated strategies that link the efforts (and capabilities) of our staff with the buildings that we build and the technologies that we deploy. These three threads of activity are deeply intertwined and the effect of each is amplified by co-ordinating its development with the other two. However, there is no argument that the fastest moving of these three is technology. And in the context of building technology-rich learning spaces it is technology, due to its greater rate of development and change, that stands to lose if its trends and directions are not considered in new build and refurbishment projects. Hence the need to look at some trends here.
