Infrastructure and technology-enhanced learning: Context, agency, multiplicity

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Journal homepage: stel.pubpub.org Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning, 1(1) 1 Article type Full paper, double-blind peer review. Special issue Debating the status of 'theory' in technology enhanced learning research | More at https://doi.org/10.21428/8c225f6e.dc494046 https://doi.org/ 10.21428/8c225f6e.3cf93519 Citation Sweeney, D. M. (2020). Getting to grips with technology enhanced learning literature: Wading out of murky waters. Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning, 1(1). Abstract Gathering data on campus-based research-intensive university teachers' thinking and use of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) theory is a challenge and under researched. This article will report on the first stage of a research project involving university teachers and their TEL literature thinking and use whilst studying an optional blended learning design module of a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) course at a UK research intensive university. The findings of the first stage of the research will help refine the research approach for the second stage of the project and aims to minimise any bias or assumptions about university teachers' thinking and use of TEL theory. A descriptive and content analysis of the bibliographic citations of 32 design and development reports provides an insight into how university teachers approach TEL literature and which types of literature they find useful. It concludes that, whilst university teachers engaged with a wide range of published academic literature from four distinct fields, there is variance in the type of literature they found to be the most useful. These research findings provide a robust foundation for the second stage of the project which will explore the thinking behind how university teachers go about making their literature choices and why. The analysis presented in this paper illustrates the beginnings of an encouraging picture where it is possible for TEL theory to be in a mutualistic symbiotic relationship with TEL practice. Getting to grips with technology enhanced learning literature: Wading out of murky waters Getting to grips with technology enhanced learning literature 2 Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning, 1(1) https://doi.