Macquarie's learning and teaching context provides both the opportunities and challenges of an increasingly diverse learning environment; a complex mix of on-campus and off-campus, local and international, undergraduate and postgraduate. Macquarie's vision is for current and emerging technologies to be used wisely and effectively to enable and enhance the student experience and cater for diversity through:

• seamless connections between people and places across the globe;
• efficient and effective access to information and resources;
• new ways to participate, interact, communicate and collaborate; and
• creative opportunities to generate, present and disseminate knowledge.

The use of technologies for learning and teaching is not regarded as a distinct and separate eLearning occurrence, but as a fully integrated experience, in which technologies are seamlessly integrated into the curriculum and the environment in which they are situated.

One size does not fit all, therefore the choice of which technologies to use will be evidence-based taking into account their ability to support the philosophy, aims, outcomes of the curriculum; the underlying learning and teaching process; and the needs and circumstances of students.

(Technologies in Learning and Teaching Plan, 2008)