Meeting the Need for Digital Transformation in Higher Education
The Challenges:
- Higher accessibility standards.
- Reduced government funding.
- Lower enrolment.
- Unprepared instructors and administrators.
Solutions:
- More online content and the encouragement of a learning culture.
- Strategic planning and effective management.
- Selecting and combining the right modalities and avoiding modality bias.
- Effective application of recent research, including emerging learning models.
- What surveys of students tell us and what they do not.
- Satisfying the need for social justice without compromising on the pursuit of excellence.
- Achieving faculty, student and administrator buy-in – the output must meet both the education and the financial standards that ensure long-term sustainability.
Preparatory reading: Educause Review article.