TEL CoP – Digital Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: The Next Chapter (Professor Ale Armellini)

In this session, Professor Alejandro (Ale) Armellini discusses the changes in teaching and learning over the past 18 months, as well as possible post-COVID scenarios for digital teaching and learning in Higher Education. This talk addresses the principles we might use to ground our vision for digital teaching and learning, and what a lower synchronicity and lower proximity paradigm might look like for students and staff. It will argue and provide a rationale for why “going back to normal” is far from desirable.

This CoP will take place on Zoom. The Zoom meeting will open at 1pm and the talk will start promptly at 1pm

More about the speaker:
Alejandro (Ale) Armellini is Professor and Dean of Digital and Distributed Learning at the University of Portsmouth. His key role is to provide leadership in digital learning and teaching and learning innovation across all faculties and services. Ale is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Ale’s research and doctoral supervision focus on learning innovation, online pedagogy, course design in online environments, institutional capacity building and open practices. He holds visiting professorships at several UK and overseas universities.