It’s Elemental: Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) as scalable and sustainable student-centered practice in context

Abstract

Many educational institutions are facing the challenge of how to implement Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) in a meaningful, scalable and sustainable manner. This implementation is not a transition from change project to business as usual, but a fluid and continual narrative embraced by all that must be personalized for the diverse cohort it impacts. RMITs ongoing and evolving solution involves a combination of approaches that touch on strategic initiatives that operationalize standards (Elements) for consistency of student- centered teaching, capability building and training, resource development, technology implementations and organizational structures. This solution allows meaningful collaboration between professional and academic staff that values the interplay between learning design and discipline specific teaching practice. To operationalize this TEL solution with a focus on student-centred teaching, agile approaches have been used at RMIT. These approaches assist in placing value on people and the holistic relationship and interdependencies between the context of teaching and learning activities, and the methodologies used to enable change in practice.