ESRC and others are finally adopting a convention (which I like) that has been esatblished in the US for some time and moving from using e-learning to TEL. This refects our estabished Spoken Word dictum that “all contemporary learning is e-learning”.

I hope next on the agenda is the discovery that “the university is the learning environment”. We should always use these conventions?

A Google search demostrates how widely TEL is being used… Caledonian should adopt that convention.

…This Call uses the phrase technology enhanced learning≠ to refer to what has recently been termed e-learning≠. The European Commission is currently using the phrase ‘Technology Enhanced Learning’ for Framework VII, and will promote it as a ‘new’ research area. This Call uses the same phrase in order to support that vision, and to ensure alignment with European research groups working in the same field.