Look back impact components in digital learning fields

Recently I read the JISC Digital Transformation materials and unintentionally started to recap when and what components were noticed by me. What their maturity levels are at present in my practice. Hence I make a snapshot of my thoughts. The maturity levels are offerred as three levels from the Famework for digital transoformation in higher education:

  • Emerging to established
  • Established to enhanced, and
  • Enhanced to mature.

These components are my personal takens and they can be from the key themes of Technology, Teaching and Learning development, Digital and physical infrastructure, Organisational culture, and Operation and execution. A sense of their maturity levels at present is highly related to my work environment and my cognition.

YearAttention-grabbing components in my fieldMaturity Levels at present (2024)
2024Digital transformation
Employability
Education 4.0
Digital transformation – Emerging to established
Employability – Established to enhanced
Education 4.0 – Emerging to established
2023Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Digital leadership
Learning Analytics to improve retention
AI – Emerging to established
Digital leadership – Emerging to established
Learning Analytics – Established to enhanced
2022Reducing Digital Shock
Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Cyber security
Digital shock – Emerging to established
MFA – Enhanced to mature
Cyber security – Established to enhanced
2021Closing Digital Poverty & Digital Divide (DP&DD)
Hybrid Working
Hybrid Learning
DP&DD – Established to enhanced
Hybrid Working – Enhanced to enhanced
Hybrid Learning – Established to enhanced
2020Digital Wellbeing
Gamification
Microlearning
Digital Wellbeing – Established to enhanced
Gamification – Established to enhanced
Microlearning – Established to enhanced
2019Digital Citizenship & Digital Etiqutte (DC&DE)
Student Voice & Students as Partners (SV&SaP)
Software as a service & Cloud services (SaaS&CS)
DC&DE – Established to enhanced
SV&SaP – Established to enhanced
SaaS&CS – Enhanced to mature
2018Digital Capability
Big Data
Blockchain
Collaboration & Collabrotive Learning
Digital Capability – Established to enhanced
Big Data – Established to enhanced
Blockchain – Established to enhanced
Collaboration & Collabrotive Learning – Established to enhanced
2017Digital Accessbility
Digital learning spaces & Inclusive environment
Blended Learning
Business Intelligence & Data Analytics (BI&DI)
Universal design & Inclusive Design (UX&ID)
Digital Accessibility – Established to enhanced
Digital learning spaces – Established to enhanced
Blended Learning – Established to mature
BI&DI – Established to enhanced
UX&ID – Established to enhanced
2016Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI)
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
EDI – Established to enhanced
GDPR – Enhanced to mature
2015E-learning benchmarking
Digital Security
E-learning banchmarking – Established to enhanced
Digital Security – Established to enhanced
2014Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality (VR&AR) 
e-Assessment
Bring your own device (BYOD)
Personalised Learning
Agile methologogy & change management
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
VR&AR – Established to enhanced
e-Assessment – Established to mature
BYOD – Established to mature
Personalised Learning – Established to enhanced
Agile – Established to enhanced
MOOCs – Established to mature
2013Open Education Resources (OER)
Flipped Learning
Virtual Classroom
3D printing
OER – Enhanced to mature
Flipped Learning – Enhanced to mature
Virtual Classroom – Enhanced to mature
3D printing – Enhanced to mature
2012Creative Commons (CC)CC – Enhanced to mature
2011Mobile Learning (M-Learning)
Digital Literacy
Digital Natives
M-Learning – Enhanced to mature
Digital Literacy – Established to enhanced
2010QR Code
Various content creation tools
Web 3.0 / Semantic Web
QR Code – Enhanced to mature
Content creation tools – Enhanced to mature
Web 3.0 – Established to enhanced
2009Social NetworkingSocial Networking – Enhanced to mature
2008Learning management system (LMS)/ E-learning system / Virtual learning environment (VLE)
Community of Practice (CoP)
VLE – Enhanced to mature
CoP – Enhanced to mature
2007Information Storage and Retrieval (IS&R)
Information Literacy
IS&R – Enhanced to mature
Information Literacy – Enhanced to mature
2006Web 2.0
Open Source
Content Management Systems (CRM)
Web 2.0 – Enhanced to mature
Open Source – Enhanced to mature
CRM – Established to mature
2005Social Media
Social Learning
Social Media – Enhanced to mature
Social Learning – Enhanced to mature
2004Knowledge Management (KM)
Organisational Learning (OL)
Competitive Intelligence (CI)
Intellectual Property (IP)
KM – Enhanced to mature
OL – Enhanced to mature
CI – Enhanced to mature
IP – Enhanced to mature
2003E-Publishing
Web-based systems
E-Publishing- Enhanced to mature
Web-based systems – Enhanced to mature

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