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Although Gilly Salmon’s opening keynote speech didn’t tell me anything new, it did effectively summarise both the widely-used and the emerging technologies of the moment. She identified two key challenges, introducing the term ‘Macromyopia’ – (which she described as a condition prevalent in higher education where the short-term is given disproportionate emphasis over the long-term, and its implications for funding, staffing and project work), and highlighting the tendency of HE institutions to protect embedded practices. Gilly also talked about constructivist pedagogies and how they can conflict with accountability issues.