ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at a range of drivers in higher education and discusses ways in which Coaching Educators might connect and engage with them, whether they pose challenges or provide opportunities, in order to develop their teaching. Many drivers can be helpful and supportive of practice development as opposed to presenting a challenge or a threat. Coaching Educator's perspective on drivers will depend on Coaching Educator's relationship to them. Personal drivers can come through developing a more reflexive approach to Coaching Educator's practice. Identifying drivers, engaging with drivers and even creating drivers ourselves are therefore important aspects of professional practice. Digital technologies and online learning have become ubiquitous in the higher education landscape and yet in some ways they are still viewed as new or emerging approaches to teaching and learning. Digital approaches to learning therefore continue to be differentiated from ‘traditional’ approaches, largely as a result of the relentless driver that they provide.
