Digital Learning - beyond eLearning and Blended Learning

Several years ago, when it first became clear that online education was becoming more prevalent, questions were asked about the format of educational content. At the time, in the early years of online education, we witnessed teachers taking content that had been traditionally delivered, and pushing it across into the online environment. This practice quickly became known as 'shovelware' because teachers were ultimately shovelling their content across to the online platform. Quantity was more important than quality, because a rapid population of new digital spaces was deemed to be expedient - the pedagogy could wait.