Sustainable Higher Education and Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL)

Linda Daniela, Anna Visvizi, Calixto Gutiérrez-Braojos and Miltiadis D. Lytras
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Linda Daniela: Scientific Institute of Pedagogy, University of Latvia, Imantas 7th line, 1, LV 1083 Riga, Latvia
Anna Visvizi: School of Business & Economics, Deree College—The American College of Greece, 6 Gravias Str., 153-42 Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece
Calixto Gutiérrez-Braojos: Departamento de Métodos de Investigación y Diagnóstico en Educación, University of Granada, Campus Universitario de Cartuja, C.P. 18071 Granada, Spain
Miltiadis D. Lytras: School of Business & Economics, Deree College—The American College of Greece, 6 Gravias Str., 153-42 Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-22

Abstract: The field of education is not immune to advances in sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT). Going beyond the ICT-hype, the objective of this paper is to examine to what extent and how technology-enhanced teaching and learning (TEL) can enhance teaching and learning and, hence, turn them into levers of sustainable socio-economic growth and development. To address these questions, a multidimensional survey was developed and distributed internationally to lecturers/professors active in the field of higher education. The initial point of departure for this study was consistent with the well-referenced in the literature thesis that TEL has profound value added in view of enhancing the teaching and learning process. Yet, as the outcomes of the survey underpinning the discussion in this paper suggest, there is much more is at stake than that. Indeed, it is argued that several conditions need to be fulfilled if technology is to serve as a benefit, and not an obstacle to teaching and learning, and thus boost the delivery of quality education. This paper outlines them.

Keywords: technology-enhanced learning; ICT; higher education; SDGs; sustainable growth and development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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