learning approaches into all aspects of student education. We will continue to redesign our curricula to deliver effective blended learning for on-campus learners and be prepared to adapt our approach and pivot seamlessly to hybrid and online learning in the face of external forces. We will also redesign our assessments, and our processes for managing assessments, to continue to realise the benefits of digital delivery and marking of assessments, whilst maintaining quality, rigour and standards. This is a great opportunity to reimagine assessment to be more inclusive, flexible and authentic. Online education increases access to learning opportunities for people all around the world and is a powerful force to enhance lifelong learning for all. Growing our online education portfolio will help to support global lifelong learning, and to support realisation of the UN’s Education Sustainable Development Goals. Through working in partnership with education providers globally, we can increase and enrich the global learning community, and collaboration will create new knowledge and impact. Through these partnerships with other universities around the world, and with online education platforms, we can provide accessible, stackable, credentialed online learning opportunities to support people solving global challenges. The educational provision created through these activities will be re- used and re-purposed to enrich our students’ learning, and to grow our professional learning portfolio to generate revenue for the University.
Underpinning this is the transformation of our ways of working to ensure that effective use of digital technologies, data and approaches improves our administrative processes, freeing up as much time as possible for our core business. And beneath all of that is transformation of our culture to embrace digital technologies, and ongoing, deep and impactful professional development to support all staff and students to be able to harness the power and potential of digital technology and manage the challenges they present. It is increasingly evident, both from the research literature and evidence- based practice, that digital technologies and online education offer many opportunities for learners to access educational opportunities more flexibly and inclusively, enable rich and diverse learning communities, and support learners to achieve their learning goals. Embracing digital technologies to enrich face-to-face, hybrid and online education improves learners’ motivation and engagement, and use of active learning pedagogies enables learners to work creatively and innovatively with their peers and teachers to co-create knowledge and gain new skills. Digital Transformation will also have a major impact on our campus and the way that we use our space. The campus will need to adopt ‘Smart’ technologies so that we can drive better utilisation, improve building performance and introduce new ‘App’ driven services (for example) to provide students with an integrated way-finding and timetabling system. New ways of working will also require new, digital workspace solutions and connectivity to support hybrid working. We need to continually scan the horizon and invest in new and emerging technologies that we think can support us to improve our students’ learning opportunities, and enhance their experience, and we can develop and evaluate these solutions ourselves, through partnership with our students, researchers and technology partners. As we evolve our student education strategy, we will incorporate the best practice from our hybrid delivery model and embed student-centred active
Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation is a fundamental strategic priority for the University of Leeds. Our ambition is to become a global leader in the use of digital technologies, data and digital approaches to support student education, global lifelong learning, research and innovation and ways of working, and as a centre for the digital transformation of education and research. Our aim is to become an innovative leader in the use of digital technology, data and digital approaches, working in effective partnerships with other universities, businesses and organisations, to solve global challenges. We already have a great track record in digital transformation, but there are many more opportunities for us to embrace and an exciting journey ahead. By digital transformation, we do not just mean technology or data, but critically encompassing culture, people, processes and impact. For our University, digital transformation
will be crosscutting across our core business of education and research, and our ways of working. In education, it is about understanding and harnessing the potential affordances of digital technologies to enhance and enrich the education and experience we offer to students studying on campus, in hybrid modes and online, and offering learning opportunities to individuals globally, to support lifelong learning and professional learning. In research, it is about ensuring we have best of breed technologies and platforms to support cutting-edge activities, provide an environment where we can innovate, co-create and embed new and emerging technologies to solve global challenges, build strong bridges between research and education, and create a research-informed evidence-base of the positive and negative impacts of digital technologies.
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