In this scenario, technology utopianism has been tempered by the pragmatics of austerity. Technology is important but traditional values have been reaffirmed and strengthened. Technology systems are managed centrally and all of the administrative aspects of study are automatically addressed without human intervention.
Society has strongly affirmed the value and importance of the traditional campus experience as providing a structured and educationally effective pedagogy. The student body is large and diverse, with the majority of students undergraduates. Staff numbers support a high staff to student ratio however much of the undergraduate teaching is taught by adjunct teaching fellows employed on teaching-only contracts.
Content for most courses is licensed from commercial publishers and students are expected to purchase an electronic reader in order to access textbooks. Most staff do not create online resources for their courses and instead use licensed materials provided with textbooks or have materials created by the small course production teams located in each Faculty.
Assessment activities are collected and marked online and there remains a single standard course environment provided by the university that provides content and administration.
Technology is seen as important as a tool for accessing information and for communication, but students are expected to attend face-to-face classes for all of the courses and to engage in a variety of educational activities without the use of technology.