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Editorial 816154 ALH0010.1177/1469787418816154Active Learning in Higher EducationBaldwin editorial2018 Active Learning in Higher Education 2019, Vol. 20(1) 3 –9 Editorial © The Author(s) 2018 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/1469787418816154 DOI: 10.1177/1469787418816154 journals.sagepub.com/home/alh Lynne Baldwin Brunel University London, UK Whatever our country or context, learning and teaching is at the heart of all that we do, whether we are employed as academics, administrators or anything else. It is our ‘core business’, so to speak. As the world around us evolves, universities and those of us within them are impacted by whatever developments occur in the wider context. While our research may well impact various aspects of the wider society in some way depending on our discipline, we cannot help but be influenced in our thinking and behaviours by what is going on outside of our own working environment. One aspect that immediately springs to mind is the advances made in technologies, and in particular that of mobile technologies such as smartphones. Only a few years ago, there was discussion around ‘should we, shouldn’t we’ make use of Twitter, Facebook and similar, with many expressing their disquiet if not greater worries about their possible use in higher education. Yet, within what has been http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Active Learning in Higher Education SAGE

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Baldwin, Lynne
Active Learning in Higher Education , Volume 20 (1): 7 – Mar 1, 2019
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816154 ALH0010.1177/1469787418816154Active Learning in Higher EducationBaldwin editorial2018 Active Learning in Higher Education 2019, Vol. 20(1) 3 –9 Editorial © The Author(s) 2018 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/1469787418816154 DOI: 10.1177/1469787418816154 journals.sagepub.com/home/alh Lynne Baldwin Brunel University London, UK Whatever our country or context, learning and teaching is at the heart of all that we do, whether we are employed as academics, administrators or anything else. It is our ‘core business’, so to speak. As the world around us evolves, universities and those of us within them are impacted by whatever developments occur in the wider context. While our research may well impact various aspects of the wider society in some way depending on our discipline, we cannot help but be influenced in our thinking and behaviours by what is going on outside of our own working environment. One aspect that immediately springs to mind is the advances made in technologies, and in particular that of mobile technologies such as smartphones. Only a few years ago, there was discussion around ‘should we, shouldn’t we’ make use of Twitter, Facebook and similar, with many expressing their disquiet if not greater worries about their possible use in higher education. Yet, within what has been

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