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My name is Mark Russell and I'm the director of Technology Enhanced Learning and the Head
of the Center for Technology Enhanced Learning at King's College London. The Center for Technology
Enhanced Learning was created in spring 2012 and our main mission is a simple one actually.
It's to move the College forward and help it respond to its aspirations around Technology
Enhanced Learning. And it's got specific aspirations around innovation and building capacity and
the culture of Technology Enhanced Learning. We've got a number of partners that we interact
with across the College and I guess the two most important ones are the King's Learning
Institute. The King's Learning Institute as you know have responsibility for teaching,
learning and assessment across the College. And we also have significant partnership with
colleagues in IT. And it's colleagues in IT that look after the technology that we are
seeking to promote. But beyond those two partners of course its our colleagues in academic schools
that we need to be working with, and indeed we are working with, to help them engage their
students through Technology Enhanced Learning. Technology Enhanced Learning has the potential
to bring real and significant benefits to our students. And it does this when we understand
what good curriculum design looks like, and when we bring our understanding of the subject
matter, when we bring some pedagogic expertise and an awareness of what the technology can
do for us. So thinking about the affordances of technology. And when we bring those together:
pedagogic, technical and subject matter expertise, that's when we are likely to get good student
learning outcomes. I always advise academics to think about the particular challenge that
they are facing or indeed the aspirations they have in relation to their curriculum
and the ways in which they engage students. And so we can then start having conversations
around how might technology help them with their challenges or their aspirations. So
it's not just using technology just because we can but it's using technology to respond to
the needs of the busy academic. KEATS is the college's virtual learning environment and
it's used to add additional engagement opportunities with our students. And we can use it in a
number of different ways. We can engage our students with formative assessment, provide
opportunities for them to collaborate with each other, we can provide it as a space for
them to keep resources and of course we can use it to extend and enhance the more traditional
interactions that we have with our students in the classrooms. As the Center for Technology
Enhanced Learning it would be no surprise that we've got a number of resources and activities
that we can provide to help colleagues think about Technology Enhanced Learning. We've
got a team of eLearning content developers, that can create content for colleagues. We
can co-create content for colleagues and create it with people in academic schools, we've
got a number of resources on our website, help people, showing them what good eLearning
looks like. And of course we're running a number of workshops relating to Technology
Enhanced Learning and using particular tools. Importantly also we are running curriculum
design workshops were we can work with module and program teams to help them think about
good and thoughtful use of technology with their curriculum endeavors. I sense a growing
interest and enthusiasm for Technology Enhanced Learning across the college and actually I
think the greatest challenge that the center faces is knowing where to prioritize its efforts.Now,
clearly we can't work with all initiatives in all areas of interest around Technology
Enhanced Learning, we have to focus our efforts on work that is strategically important and
likely to bring the biggest impact for students and their learning. It's a really exciting
time to be working at King's College London and particularly because of the plans around
Technology Enhanced Learning. We've got a brilliant team in the Center for Technology
Enhanced Learning and we're waiting to work with colleagues on their academic practice.