Learning Innovation: A Framework for Transformation

Gilly Salmon

doi:10.2478/eurodl-2014-0031

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Learning Innovation: A Framework for Transformation

European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning

Volume 17 (2014): Issue 2 (December 2014)

By: Gilly Salmon

Open Access

|Mar 2015

Abstract

Learning with and through technological enhancements operates in a landscape unrecognisable only a few years ago. Focussing on Higher Education, this article shows how to capture and model complex strategic processes that will move the potential of online and blended learning in universities to new stages of development. It offers the example of a four quadrant model created as a framework for an online and blended learning innovation strategy, and its successful implementation in practice.

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