The Evolution of Learning Technology in UK Higher Education: The Bristol Solution

This paper is presented in two sections. The first will discuss the development of learning technology within UK higher education over the past ten years. It will outline the influences and expectations that contributed to these changes and the differing ways in which institutions dealt with them. The second section will outline how a traditional, research-based UK university, Bristol, addressed these issues of change and in what way the Learning Technology Support Service is developing its own strategy to support the University’s learning and teaching. In particular it will focus on the results of a recent Learning Technology Survey circulated to all University academics earlier this year and how the findings of this survey will be used to inform planning and strategy at all levels