Shift: Tectonic and granular

Heather Watson, The Learning Federation

Globally, technologies have transformed our shopping, banking and information processes. Assumptions about learning for many, are only just being challenged by the expansion and ubiquity of technologies available. Students are already shifting their expectations about where and how they learn.

For practitioners and education authorities this context provides opportunities to use technologies to make learning more rewarding and engaging. Particularly for professionals with a great record of teaching success, engaging with such shift can be confronting. How do we focus on the big issues to ensure effective learning and transformation, when in professional practice, the details can seem so challenging?