There’s no such thing as digital learning.
Learning has always responded to the affordances offered by new technologies – and ever since the widespread adoption of personal computers and networks in the 1990s these have included digital resources and online collaboration.
Since then tools and materials have improved incrementally – roughly in line with the improvements we’ve seen in digital tools in other areas of our lives.
In higher education we have tended, in the past, to “other” these technologies. “Digital learning” (or “online learning”, “e-learning”, “technology enhanced learning”, or whatever the next buzzword will be) has been seen as a specialist endeavour – something outside of what would generally be expected of staff who teach in higher education. We still tend to see lectures, seminars, and labs as the main job – with everything else over to one side.
