TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning)

Technology enhanced learning refers to the support of learning through technology. It is often used synonymously with E-learning. TEL support pedagogical approaches using technology. The interplay between the activities of learning and the technology being used is the focus of TEL. Technology used for TEL may include computer software programming environments (Galas, Kafai ), virtual worlds, OLPC XO project and Squeakland (Galas, Kay, Negroponte) learning management systems, content management systems, content animation and simulation systems (Mathematica, Biologica, Genscope (Galas)).

The EU supports a number of projects in the area of TEL.
There are several Networks of Excellences that contribute, or concontribued, to research around TEL:

PROLEARN: ended http://www.prolearn-project.org/
Kaleidoscope: ended http://www.noe-kaleidoscope.org/telearc/
STELLAR: running http://www.stellarnet.eu/

The Teaching and Learning Programme is a UK TEL project running from 2000-2011. It is a research and practioner collarboration project covering early years education to higher education and lifelong or workplace learning.

Seven projects were funded in the second phase of the project 2006-2011.
A Learning Design Support Environment (LDSE) for Teachers and Lecturers
Echoes 2: Improving Children’s Social Interaction through Exploratory Learning in a Multimodal Environment
Ensemble: Semantic Technologies for the Enhancement of Case-Based Learning
Inter-Life: Interoperability and Transition
MiGen: Intelligent Support for Mathematical Generalisation
hapTEL: Enhancing Learning through Haptics
Personal Inquiry (PI): Designing for Evidence-based Enquiry across Formal and Informal Settings of Learning
SynergyNet: Supporting Collaborative Learning in an Immersive Environment

Most college and university campus have a a TEL that is dedicated to helping faculty and students explore and implement technologies both in on-campus settings and in distance learning settings.

The third international conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, Quality of Teaching and Reforming Education is taking place this July 2012 in Barcelona. http://reform-education.org/

Journals specifically concerned with TEL:
•Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning (RPTEL) http://www.worldscinet.com/rptel/
•International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijtel
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References
"TLRP-TEL Current Projects". Teaching & Learning Research Programme Technology Enhanced Learning. 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
http://www.tlrp.org/aims/index.html
The TLRP Digital Repository http://www.tlrp.org/dspace/index.jsp
"Case study of TLRP". Teaching & Learning Research Programme. 2005. Retrieved 2007-06-27. (pdf)
"TLRP-TEL Development Projects". Teaching & Learning Research Programme. 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-15. http://www.tlrp.org/proj/teldev.html