ALT is preparing a response to the Digital teaching and learning during the coronavirus pandemic: Call for evidence. This call for evidence is seeking a wide breadth of sector input and experience to understand the challenges faced, and lessons learned from remote teaching and learning delivery since the start of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in March 2020.

The call for evidence runs from 3 September 2020 to 14 October 2020.

You can find the full information on the Office for Students website. 

We are now inviting Members to contribute evidence to be included in ALT's response by 10 October 2020, sharing the expertise and experiences from the Learning Technology community. We will publish our response so please ensure that you only submit evidence you wish us to share publicly. 

Please provide input via this online form or email your contribution to ceo@alt.ac.uk . 

More information about the Call from the Office for Students

About this call for evidence

1. In June 2020, the Secretary of State for Education commissioned Sir Michael Barber, the Chair of the Office for Students (OfS) to conduct a review of digital teaching and learning in English higher education since the start of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The review will consider:

• the use of digital technology to deliver remote teaching and learning since the start of the pandemic and understand what has and has not worked

• how high-quality digital teaching and learning can be continued and delivered at scale in the future

• the opportunities that digital teaching and learning present for English higher education in the medium to longer-term

• the relationship between ‘digital poverty’ and students’ digital teaching and learning experience.

2. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic most universities and colleges have adopted some form of remote teaching and learning. This call for evidence seeks to understand the challenges the sector has faced in making this change and the lessons it has learned. We would like to hear about experiences from across the full breadth of the sector.

3. We are keen to gather case studies, views, and perspectives to hear about what worked well, and what worked less well, to learn lessons about the potential, and the limitations, of this mode of delivery at scale.

4. The review will conclude with a report in spring 2021, providing recommendations for government, higher education provider leaders, teachers and students.

5. The information we receive from the call for evidence is intended to be used to inform the recommendations of the digital teaching and learning review and to identify case studies; the call for evidence is intended to collect ideas and responses.

Who should respond?

6. We welcome responses from anyone involved in the delivery, design and oversight of digital teaching and learning in English higher education.

7. We are particularly (but not only) interested in hearing from higher education teaching staff, professional services staff and leaders in higher education who have been engaged in the recent shift to remote delivery. We welcome views from all types and sizes of provider, and across all subjects. We would also like to hear from students and students’ unions.

8. We welcome the insights of employers, technology companies and start-ups, third sector organisations, professional statutory and regulatory bodies (PSRBs) and policy bodies with experience of higher education digital teaching and learning.

9. Not all questions are mandatory, and we invite participants to answer the questions they feel are appropriate in their context. Participants can choose to answer anonymously or provide their contact information if they are happy for us to contact them about their response.1

You can find the full information on the Office for Students website. 

We are now inviting Members to contribute evidence to be included in ALT's response by 10 October 2020, sharing the expertise and experiences from the Learning Technology community. We will publish our response so please ensure that you only submit evidence you wish us to share publicly. 

Please provide input via this online form or email your contribution to ceo@alt.ac.uk .