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Report outlines the future for learning technologies

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The government-appointed Education and Technology Action Group has published its wide-ranging recommendations to ministers. Bob Harrison explains.

Just before they all got reshuffled last year, the secretary of state for education, Michael Gove, education and skills minister Matt Hancock, and universities minister David Willetts invited a group of education professors, teachers, technologists and industry people to come together and advise them about the future of learning technology across schools, further education and skills, and higher education.

Two significant factors prompted this decision. First, the Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG), established by Mr Hancock, had reported after 16 months’ work, making recommendations designed to address the urgent need for further education providers to make more effective use of technology, especially online and blended learning.

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