2. How Universities build Strategies for Teaching and Learning in the Digitale Age
Isabel Schünemann, Hochschulforum Digitalisierung Brussels, February

3. Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (HFd)
HFD is a national think tank. Since 2014, it provides a framework for discussing the wide-ranging impact and implications of digital technology on teaching and learning in higher education.
HFD supports HEIs and policy makers in making digital teaching and learning an integral part of higher education in Germany.

4. ACTiviTIES

5. Collaborate with experts
Attention & action
Collaborate with experts
Create networks
Implement strategy
We work with experts to solve the most pressing issues for higher education in the digital age and develop new ideas and tools for teaching and learning.

6. Attention & action Collaborate with experts Create networks
Implement strategy
We connect experts in the field to learn from and inspire each other.

7. Collaborate with experts
Attention & action
Collaborate with experts
Create networks
Implement strategy
We support universities in developing and implementing a strategy for teaching and learning in the digital age.

8. Why do universities need a strategy for teaching
and learning in the digital age?

9. The single most important question
Why do universities need a strategy for teaching
and learning in the digital age?
The single most important question

10. More than enough students…
Forecast until 2045

11.  Unemployment rate for academics is ~ 2%
…and demand
Forecast until 2045
 Unemployment rate for
academics is ~ 2%

12. Why have a strategy?
(International) Recognition and Reputation usually internationally ranked, large research universities
known as innovative/ first-movers/ for excellence in teaching & research
oftentimes compete internationally for the best students and researchers
(Local) Integration usually small universities of applied sciences
A partner of (mid-sized) companies in the region in teaching and research
Strive for their graduates to bring innovation into the economy
Forster (established) goals (solve existing challenges) usually not a strategy for a whole university
Use digital technology to deal with a diverse student body, to foster international education, offer flexible learning environments for working students, lower drop-out rates…

13. Common challenges in strategy development
Develop organizational formats to
discuss and develop a strategy for
the whole organization
(committee, working group…)
Find and communicate a common understanding of what “digital
teaching and learning” is
Mental Image
Governance
Motivation
Communciation
Communicate ideas, goals, priorities and best practices within the university
Create motivation and
set incentives