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Currently higher and tertiary education institutions worldwide are being forced to embrace online remote teaching in order to address the effects of the 2020/21 pandemic. Looking beyond the pandemic, institutions are increasingly adopting blended learning modalities in the longer term, merging the real advantages of online features with face-to-face teaching and learning.

However, multiple current pressures and challenges make it difficult for faculties and colleges to allocate time and human resources to producing quality learning materials or courses. These demands all too often result in the quality of online teaching and learning being poor. Simply lecturing online via video, Zoom or Teamview, hastily-reworked lecture notes and endless, text-heavy PowerPoint presentations used as online teaching tools tend to alienate students. They also threaten to relegate many higher education programme offerings to the league of transmission-mode correspondence courses.

At the same time, the inappropriate use of digital media such as ‘talking head’ videos actually disadvantages those students who have to pay for off-campus data use. Most of the data they are paying for are, after all, expended in making the lecturer visible, which seldom contributes much of pedagogic value (Rowe, 2020).



However, advances in online pedagogy and technology-enhanced learning make it possible to design or re-design courses thoughtfully and creatively for maximum student engagement, and for a positive impact on learning, throughput and student success. Significantly, such courses do not have to be data-hungry, or expensive for students to use.
Digitised content, when combined with sound, well-established pedagogic principles, can infuse online education with excitement, challenge, active learning and interaction.