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<\/a>Enhancing the quality of learning and teaching remains the top most important factor for developing TEL in institutions in the UK (UCISA TEL Survey 2014) and the direction of travel for Vision4Learning as underpinned by CEL is to develop a stimulating environment for consistent enhancement in student learning experience.<\/p>\nAcademics are increasingly engaging with a wider range of technologies to promote their activities and support their own, and student engagement with a discipline.\u00a0 Building capacity through shared staff\/student ownership and use of such technologies will enable the creation of enhanced learning opportunities, and staff and students will be supported and more empowered to create enhanced learning opportunities (see Fig. 2).<\/p>\n
Fig. 2 \u2013 BU TEL Direction of Travel and Strategic Roadmap 2013-2018<\/u><\/p>\n Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)<\/strong><\/p>\n As you will be aware, the TEL Toolkit launched week commencing 1 February 2016.\u00a0 The TEL Toolkit brings together all the tools currently in use across BU and links them to the pedagogies for which they may be most usefully applied, in addition there are links to research articles and talking head videos of academics sharing how they have successfully used them.\u00a0 See here<\/a> for more information.\u00a0 As part of the launch a video was created to share BU\u2019s vision for TEL which is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Late in 2015 the Government published a white paper making clear its intentions for the Teaching Excellence Framework and providing guidance for what it will mean for the HE landscape in the future.\u00a0 At BU we are slightly ahead of the curve with the work that has already been initiated both from the TEL Strategy Forum and the Centre for Excellence in Learning (CEL).\u00a0 The TEL Toolkit will support these initiatives and continue our advancement ahead of the Government\u2019s plans being finalised.<\/p>\n Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)<\/strong><\/p>\n Over recent months many people have provided their input to shaping the VLE tender documents, including academics, IT, Procurement, Learning Technologists and SUBU to name but a few.\u00a0 Due to the potential value of the contract procurement regulations necessitate an EU tender process.\u00a0 Compliance with the EU tender requirements mean this will take until early 2016\/17 academic year to agree what BU\u2019s future VLE will be and at this point implementation plans will be defined.\u00a0 To ensure a smooth integration with BU\u2019s other systems, it is anticipated that this will complete late in 2017\/2018 academic year.<\/p>\n In the interim, the V4L project team will be working with other stakeholders to exploit Blackboard to the fullest extent as the system has much greater capability than BU currently use and the intention is to fully explore additional functionality.<\/p>\n Sharing Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n Watch out for opportunities to share good practice in pedagogical approaches.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Details will be available on the TEL Toolkit, CEL Blog and Staff Intranet.<\/p>\n Engaging with TEL<\/strong><\/p>\n Why would you want to engage with your TEL Toolkit?\u00a0 There are 7 strong reasons below (and see Fig. 3):<\/p>\n What can we do for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n If there is anything else you believe the V4L project team should be considering in addition to or an extension of what is already mentioned here, please email v4l@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a> with your suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The V4L project is driven by BU academics for BU academics to enable and share pedagogical innovation.\u00a0 There are a number of elements to the project such as the tender for the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Toolkit and the Service Design review of the Learning Technologists.\u00a0 To deliver against these… Read more » about Vision4Learning (V4L) Project 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students is at the top of the \u2018Why?\u2019 list.\u00a0 Engaging students through TEL is a great way to offer a varied approach to teaching and learning and make the experience enjoyable for and beneficial to students.<\/p>\n\n