Transforming TEL for Human Flourishing: Learning Enhanced Technology (LET)

Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) is a sequential workflow that begins with an input (identifying or developing a technology) that can be used to generate an output (to enhance or advance learning). This paper proposes a Learning Enhanced Technology (LET) strategy that will act as a complement to TEL. LET ensures that learning is founded on key ethical factors including privacy, security, integrity and equity. The intended result of this will be ethically advanced technology that embodies a human code of conduct. LET ensures these ethical factors are baked into programming code of intelligent systems and their considered design. We review application areas and propose a layered model approach and practical encoding considerations needed for the cultivation of ethical human learning and flourishing. This paper examines and proposes how an ethical and humane approach to creating technologies could be a more effective way to design technologies to enhance learning.