Recommendation(s): 9

Recommendation 9: We recommend that all institutions should, over the medium term, review the changing role of staff as a result of Communications and Information Technology, and ensure that staff and students receive appropriate training and support to enable them to realise its full potential.

7.9 If the potential of C&IT to enhance learning is to be fully realised, staff and students need to receive appropriate training and support, as the Dearing Committee recommended. The Government welcomes the intention of the HE funding bodies to build on their experience with the Computers in Teaching Initiative and the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme and to consider with the institutional representative bodies how such initiatives can have maximum impact. 7.10 The proposed Institute for Learning and Teaching will also have an important role to play in kitemarking and developing good computer-based learning and teaching materials for higher education (Recommendation 15, see Chapter 3). 7.11 As already indicated (Chapter 3, para 3.4), an important way of improving the quality of teaching is to make available more widely the teaching of outstanding teachers, for example on film, video or via broadcasting. The Government intends to invite the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, when established, to review the possibilities and consider organising a national scheme.

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