Today, more than ever, innovations in university teaching are supporting universities to prepare students for their future careers, equipping them with the skills and experience they will need to succeed.
Innovation in university teaching is nothing new. Today’s best practice represents centuries of incremental changes, each improving students’ learning, and each making use of the most up-to-date teaching research and developments in technology.
During the twentieth century, lecturers moved from using blackboards to using overhead projectors to using Microsoft PowerPoint. Students have gone from completing assignments using pens, then typewriters, then computers. Adopting new technologies in educational settings is not unusual.
The past decade especially has seen education providers expanding the use of digital enhancements to teaching. As well as the fully online courses delivered by some universities, there has been a growth of blended learning (a mix of in-person and online content within a course), hybrid learning (providing both online and in-person provision for individual lectures or other course content), and increased use of digital tools and resources within the physical lecture theatre, seminar room, or laboratory.
