5 Technological innovations which will support your online learning

Developments in technology have transformed both face-to-face and online learning.
In the past, distance learners received weighty workbooks via post.
The Open University for example, often supplemented books with radio and television
programmes or video/audio tapes. But now, ‘distance learning’ is primarily delivered
as online learning.
Specialist learning technologies such as virtual learning environments (VLEs) or e-
portfolios have changed how institutions manage learning materials and resources.
However, staff don’t always take advantage of their potential to change curriculum
design or delivery.
Presenting lectures by video, much as it might seem a technological advance in
teaching and learning, is still a traditional way to teach. It’s didactic and uses new
technology to simply ‘deliver’ content.
New technologies offer exciting opportunities to reconsider how we teach, engage
with or involve students in online activities.