Technology - Enhanced Learning - Foundations and Futures

With the Technology – Enhanced Learning – Foundations and Futures module at The Open University you will use a range of social media and tools – including the innovative FutureLearn platform – learn collaboratively and undertake individual study. You’ll examine the use of technologies in different contexts and develop your skills in using evidence to recommend specific technologies. By the end of your studies, you will have developed your skills, knowledge and practice in relation to digital learning, teaching and training.

Vocational relevance

This module is highly relevant if you work in, or wish to move into, elearning within higher education, further education, non-formal education or training.

When you have successfully completed the four eight-week study programs that make up H880, you’ll have developed your ability to act as an effective professional within the broad field of technology-enhanced teaching and training.

The module is aligned with the Professional Standards Framework developed by the UK’s Higher Education Academy (HEA), a framework used for benchmarking success within higher education teaching and support. Students working towards HEA Fellowship will be able to use their work on the module to help them build a fellowship case.

Some of our postgraduate students are sponsored by their employers, and we expect this to be the case on this module. Employers have demonstrated that they value its vocational relevance and the professional benefits that it brings to their staff.