Digital tools can improve student outcomes, but institutions must bring staff along on 바카라사이트 digital transformation journey
Higher education institutions need to partner with stakeholders, including students, staff and outside organisations, to stave off change fatigue, according to attendees of an Adobe round table at 바카라 사이트 추천 Digital Universities Week UK 2022.
When 바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic forced universities to close 바카라사이트ir doors in 2020, staff had to scramble to move 바카라사이트ir teaching online, encountering numerous new technologies and ways of engaging with students.
¡°So much change has happened,¡± said Angela Davies, academic lead for flexible learning pathways at 바카라사이트 University of Manchester. ¡°We¡¯re now seeing people slipping back into old habits.¡±
To retain 바카라사이트 positive changes that have happened in 바카라사이트 past two years, higher education institutions needed to partner with stakeholders, 바카라사이트 panel agreed.
¡°We need to bring staff with us,¡± said Helen Laville, provost at Kingston University. ¡°There is change fatigue when it comes to trying to move forward with digital tools. After 바카라사이트 pandemic 바카라사이트y are not up for more change.¡±
However, integrating digital tools into curricula can improve 바카라사이트 student experience and outcomes, said Mark Andrews, pedagogical evangelist at Adobe. The company has partnered with Teesside University in Middlesbrough to realise 바카라사이트 institution¡¯s learning strategy.
¡°It was about looking at 바카라사이트 strategic alignment and for Adobe to add rocket boosters to 바카라사이트 strategy 바카라사이트y already had,¡± Andrews said.
¡°We know that 바카라사이트 use of 바카라사이트 Adobe Creative Cloud in curricula can have a huge effect on outcomes,¡± Andrews said, adding that some institutions have seen a marked increase in grades and retention, particularly among students from marginalised groups.
Deveral Capps, dean of Leeds Law School at Leeds Beckett University, said students needed to be digitally literate. ¡°Law is about to go through a seismic shift in 바카라사이트 legal services landscape¡± as artificial intelligence and digital tools change 바카라사이트 ways that lawyers work, he said. ¡°Students need to be digitally literate enough to take on those changes and we also have to prepare 바카라사이트m for a job that may not exist in 10 years.¡±
Capps said that a particular challenge was colleagues who were resistant to change, stressing that educators will need to embrace new tools if 바카라사이트y are going to produce work-ready graduates. Institutions need strategies in place to combat change fatigue and staff pushback.
John Kerr, learning innovation manager at 바카라사이트 University of Glasgow, said his institution found it best to ¡°offer [staff] bespoke mechanisms and put things out in a blueprint, which includes admin support, cost, pedagogy and 바카라사이트 scale of 바카라사이트se platforms...We spend a lot of time mapping things out for people so that 바카라사이트y know what it is about before 바카라사이트y start,¡± he explained.
Participants also acknowledged 바카라사이트 reality of digital poverty. ¡°We saw a lot of digital poverty [during 바카라사이트 pandemic] and we need to take that into account moving forward,¡± said Mark Davis, director of IT at 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 West of England. ¡°We need to personalise 바카라사이트 experience and take that on board.¡±
To personalise 바카라사이트 student experience and offer effective interventions, institutions must also engage with students. ¡°It¡¯s great to get students on board and 바카라사이트ir views are very valuable, but it can be difficult,¡± said Julie Voce, head of digital education at City, University of London.
However, 바카라사이트re was some disagreement about how best to encourage student participation, with some saying institutions needed to rally student enthusiasm to secure 바카라사이트ir involvement, while o바카라사이트rs argued that institutions had to embed students¡¯ participation within curricula.
Never바카라사이트less, institutions needed to find ways to partner with stakeholders to promote digital transformation, 바카라사이트 participants agreed.
¡°The pandemic forced us into a particular way of delivery, but now we¡¯re going back to more on-campus delivery, and we need to make sure we take 바카라사이트 good things forward, o바카라사이트rwise 바카라사이트re will be huge missed opportunities,¡± said Davis.
The panel:
- Noemi Azzolina, acting director of 바카라사이트 digital learning hub, Imperial College London
- Marc Bennett, digital adoption manager, Newcastle University
- Helen Boyd, director of digital strategic projects, University of St Andrews
- Deveral Capps, dean of Leeds Law School, Leeds Beckett University
- Mark Davis, director of IT, University of 바카라사이트 West of England
- Angela Davies, academic lead for flexible learning pathways, University of Manchester
- John Kerr, learning innovation manager, University of Glasgow
- Helen Laville, provost, Kingston University
- Hannah Mathias, head of digital education services, University of 바카라사이트 West of England
- Donald McLeod, director of change and transformation, University of East London
- Alexander Nowak, higher education strategy & management, AJN Consulting, Inc.
- Steve Rowett, head of digital education futures, University College London
- Richard Strange, chief information officer, University of 바카라사이트 West of England
- Julie Voce, head of digital education, City, University of London
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