Next Generation Pedagogy: IDEAS for Online and Blended Higher Education. Final report of the FUTURA (Future of University Teaching: Update and a Roadmap for Advancement) project

Abstract

The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) commissioned the FUTURA (Future of University Teaching: Update and a Roadmap for Advancement) project, in collaboration with its eLearn Center, with the overarching goal of providing a 'roadmap' to inform strategic planning for the future of online and blended higher education. It achieved this through an exploratory search and identification of trends and innovations in online, blended and lifelong learning provision globally, with a focus on pedagogy and the analysis of related institutional examples in the higher education sector. This led to the development of a five-part framework for describing next-generation pedagogy, which can be summarised in the acronym IDEAS: Intelligent, Distributed, Engaging, Agile and Situated.