Too much choice - better informed choices - just seeing yet another tool delivering personalised recommendations! And another tool, e-advisor, which helps to identify the correct pathway.
Future: increased commoditisation, third party sourcing, improvement of online learning"
This year, I attended 'Jisc Digifest 2017'. I used my time mostly for discoveries - here's a list of 'Useful Tools cited at the DigiFest 2017' assembled by my colleague, Simon Parr.
This is the 'side of the fests'. The other side is our daily job routine as learning technologists, which is mostly concerned with our VLE (Moodle), which has lots of tools to offer, most of which are - more or less - ignored. So, do we need lots of additional tools as discovered during the recent fest? Maybe, if they are easier to use, more appealing?
I'm currently asking myself: What is all this 'being digital' about? According to the TEL framework students and staff at Brookes University should be 'enabled to use information and communication technologies innovatively and creatively'. At the core are: Lecture capture, digital competencies, online assessment and feedback ... To me it seems that 'being digital' has become an integral part of all our lives, and while we become more 'digital' there seems to be increasingly less clarity what 'good digital practice' actually is, and how we can best achieve it. No recipes. It's all a very fast moving target. Can we pretend to plan 'the digital future'?