Digital Learning Vision

The pandemic has been a busy time for digital learning at the University of Brighton. Not only have we introduced a new approach to blended learning – ‘Digitally Enabled Learning’ which focuses on creating a sense of community in both face to face and online situations based on staff and student interaction – but we have also written a new Digital Learning Vision.

The Digital Learning Vision is being used to guide our institutional projects and initiatives, staff and student capabilities support, and our curricula through the refreshed Curriculum Design Framework.  The Digital Learning vision and the accompanying roadmap are pedagogically led, and support the achievement of the university’s strategic objective of Putting Students at the Heart.  

The vision has been developed to emphasise the qualities and attributes of digital learning that will address the challenges we are currently facing, and to ensure that we retain the positive changes that are being made in our curricula and in student experience. It is about preparing our students and graduates for changing demands in a digitally enhanced wider world, but also making the most of engaging learning through digital technologies, and making sure our curricula are up-to-date and research-led. 

Digital Learning Vision 

Digital learning is learning in digitally-rich campus-based and online environments, supported by the pedagogically-led use of technology, and shaped by an awareness of the challenges and opportunities of the digital world, to enable the delivery of flexible, inclusive, and multimodal learning experiences. 

Our objectives are to: 

• Create flexible curricula to suit new patterns of studying, working, and living, based on the Principles of Digitally Enabled Learning 
• Support student engagement, achievement, and employability 
• Promote digital inclusion and address inequalities relating to digital poverty 
• Develop digitally fluent and innovative communities of staff and students 

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