Sustainable Higher Education and Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL)
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Materia
Technology-enhanced learning ICT Higher education SDGs Sustainable growth and development
Date
2018-10-23Referencia bibliográfica
Daniela, L. [et.al.]. Higher Education and Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL). Sustainability 2018, 10, 3883.
Résumé
The field of education is not immune to advances in sophisticated information and
communication technology (ICT). Going beyond the ICT-hype, the objective of this paper is to
examine to what extent and how technology-enhanced teaching and learning (TEL) can enhance
teaching and learning and, hence, turn them into levers of sustainable socio-economic growth and
development. To address these questions, a multidimensional survey was developed and distributed
internationally to lecturers/professors active in the field of higher education. The initial point of
departure for this study was consistent with the well-referenced in the literature thesis that TEL has
profound value added in view of enhancing the teaching and learning process. Yet, as the outcomes
of the survey underpinning the discussion in this paper suggest, there is much more is at stake than
that. Indeed, it is argued that several conditions need to be fulfilled if technology is to serve as a
benefit, and not an obstacle to teaching and learning, and thus boost the delivery of quality education.
This paper outlines them.