Digital Learning in Higher Education

Edited by Matt Smith, Interim Head of Primary Education,University of Wolverhampton and John Traxler, Professor of Digital Learning, Education Observatory, University of Wolverhampton, UK and UNESCO Chair

• Contents:Foreword xiiiDiana Laurillard1 Introduction: education’s liminal space 1Matt Smith and John Traxler2 Pandemics, policies and positionality: how COVID 19makes the case for postdigital policy making in higher education 11Sarah Hayes3 FELTAG in rearview: FE from the past to the futurethrough plague times 24Howard Scott, Alison Iredale and Bob Harrison4 Students’ agency in the emergency remote teaching landscape 37Caroline Kuhn5 Blended learning: impacts on the student experience 46Elliott A. Lancaster6 Covid-19 and UK higher education: library perspectives 57Lis Parcell7 Further non-teaching perspectives on aspects of the highereducation sector impacted by COVID-19 69Maren Deepwell, Rachel Crookes and Matt Smith8 Collaborative survival: the Bloomsbury LearningExchange’s response to the pandemic 77Sarah Sherman, Shoshi Ish-Horowicz, Nancy Weitz and Julian Bream9 To record or not to record? That was the question 86Rachel Maxwell and Rob Howe10 Initial teacher education during COVID-19: adopting,adapting and inventing 104Matt Smith, Rachel Morgan-Guthrie and Christy Caddick11 The use of technology in health professionals’ learning ina time of COVID-19 119Trudie Roberts, Suzanne Bickerdike, Nancy Davies,Gareth Frith, Jananisree Ganapathy, Richard Gatrell,Charlotte Pettersen and Joshua Rowe12 “Having your cake and eating it”: Arden University’sresponses to the COVID-19 lockdowns 131Helen Scott and Carmen Miles13 Digital learning after the crises: the new normal? 144John Traxler and Matt SmithIndex

‘This inspiring and reflective book documents how we have taught, lived and learnt in the pandemic, affirming the value of academic community at challenging times. I love that it explores the here and now and shares tentative perspectives on the future, as befits the fragile dawn of a new era.’