UCISA, UK\u2019s\nUniversities and Colleges Information\nSystems Association, published\na few months ago its report on the ninth Survey of Technology Enhanced Learning\n(TEL) for higher education. In this report it offers a longitudinal perspective\nof TEL developments over a 17-year period within UK institutions. According to Rob\nHowe, Head of Learning Technology at the University of Northampton \u201c\u2026the TEL\nsurvey provides a comprehensive sector view of the current state of play that\nimpacts staff and student experiences. It allows us to importantly benchmark\nour current activity against our peers\nand also inform future planning decisions. It is an essential read for all\nthose working and supporting technologies at their institutions.\u201d A common set\nof institutional TEL services supporting course delivery has been established\nacross the sector. The top five services\ninclude the virtual learning environment (VLE), text matching tools, provision\nfor the electronic management of assignments (EMA), reading list software and lecture\ncapture provision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The report focuses on the current provision within universities and other higher education providers, and the emerging and planned patterns of learning technology usage across the UK HE sectors. The agenda for this year\u2019s Survey also addressed developments in services related to the student learning experience such as lecture capture. Interesting trends are the fact that over half of responding institutions have chosen an external hosting model for their VLE service, and just under half have done so for their lecture capture provision. Cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) provision is the most common way of supporting digital repositories and media streaming services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n