Overview of our higher education strategy from Jon Baldwin, managing director higher education.

1. Stakeholder
strategic update
Higher Education
Jon Baldwin
Managing Director
Higher Education

2. Higher Education learning, teaching and
student experience strategy 2021-2024
Vision
Jisc’s strategy is to satisfy our members and funders by delivering
outstanding service and products, developing new products that truly
make a difference to members; providing pioneering thought leadership
that stimulates transformation in members and ensuring that our people and
the way we do things make Jisc a shining example within our sector. All
this is underpinned by a strong and sustainable financial performance.
Jisc’s Higher Education learning, teaching and student experience strategy
will enable and ensure that digital is integral to the student experience,
learning, teaching and assessment across all our members.
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3. Higher Education learning, teaching and
student experience strategy 2021-2024
Vision
Our vision is for Jisc, in partnership with members, to ensure that the
UK Higher Education is world leading in their use of digital and
technology, and that innovation and leadership in digital is at the
forefront in addressing new opportunities and challenges.
This is Jisc’s vision for learning, teaching and the student experience
in Higher Education in light of both the fourth industrial revolution, the
changing landscape of Higher Education as a result of the Covid-19
pandemic, and the lessons we are gaining from the Learning and
Teaching Reimagined programme.
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4. Higher Education learning, teaching and
student experience strategy 2021-2024
Strategic priorities
1. Transforming teaching, design, development and delivery
2. Personalised adaptive learning
3. Re-imagining assessment in a changing world
4. Enhancing and improve the student experience through digital
5. Empowering digital leadership across the sector
6. Build and develop intelligent digital and physical environments and estates
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5. Learning and
teaching
reimagined

6. Learning and teaching
reimagined focus
To explore and shape a technology enabled
learning and teaching model for UK higher
education.
To reflect on the initial impact of the rapid and
radical transformation of learning and teaching
during COVID-19 lockdown.
To explore the impact of making a shift to
technology enabled learning and teaching.
To create resources for the leadership of UK
universities, enabling them to adapt their
education provision.
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7. “It’s definitely been a transformative time, with
irrevocable changes being made to offer
enhanced blended learning”
Sarah Davies, director of the Bristol Institute for Learning and Teaching

8. Three horizons
1
Academic
year
20/21
Understanding
2020
2
Academic
year
21/22
Preparing for
strategic change
3
Academic
year
30/31
Inspired by
the future
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9. Covid-19 brought
‘Change and challenge for
students, staff and leaders’
Interim report
Tuesday 11 August 2020
http://ji.sc/LTR-Interim-report
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10. Understanding 2020
Students
prefer blended learning,
they like convenience,
saving time and easy to
access course materials
Lecturers
think blended brings
opportunities to improve
educational outcomes
Leaders
believe blended learning
enables anytime /
anywhere / anypace
learning
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11. ‘Learning and teaching
reimagined: A new dawn for
higher education?’
Report
Wednesday 04 November 2020
https://ji.sc/a-new-dawn
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12. Preparing for 2021/22
1. Embed digital at the heart of university culture
2. Invest in the short-term but with a long-term strategic view
3. Explore new economic models for high quality blended learning at scale
4. Embrace blended learning in curriculum re-design
5. Expand the digital skills and confidence of students and staff
6. Communicate the benefits of blended learning
7. Strengthen the response to digital poverty
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13. Recommendations
1. Universities to use their strategic and structural planning processes to
effect the digital transformation of learning and teaching, ensuring that
sponsorship is provided by governing bodies and executive teams
2. Universities to review their strategic investment in digital learning and teaching
3. Universities to make investment plans to mitigate the heightened cyber
security risks that arise from greater dependence on digital technologies
4. Universities to think radically about the scale and scope of their learning and
teaching activities, prioritising blended learning approaches wherever possible
5. Universities to accelerate the adoption of blended learning, with close
involvement of students in all aspects from design to delivery
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14. Recommendations continued
6. Universities to ensure inclusivity and accessibility are integral
considerations in curriculum redesign
7. Universities to ensure their professional development plans include
digital training, peer support mechanisms and reward and recognition
incentives to encourage upskilling
8. Universities and sector organisations to establish research to remain in
step with the changing digital preferences and expectations of
prospective higher education students
9. Universities, government and funders to provide additional funding or
means to reduce digital poverty as a barrier to students accessing
higher education
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15. Vision 2030
In 2030 UK higher education
is regarded as world class
because it is attractive to all
students, seamlessly spans
the physical and virtual
worlds and is of the highest
academic quality
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16. Student-led learning seen as the ‘best’ in the 2030 horizon
• Lecture-led blended learning
likely predominant model for
2020/21
• Student-centric, blended
learning scenario is the most
desirable in the longer term
• Call for vision and visible
leadership; Leadership and
effective planning are
perceived as critical elements
Digital
ecosystem
Personalised
learning
Fully online
experience
Inclusivity and
accessibility
Adaptive
learning
Student-led
blended
learning
Efficiencies
Flexible
teaching
Lecture-led
blended
learning
Resilience
Socially
distanced
campus
Face to face
experience
Face to face
experience
Socially
distanced
campus
Resilience
Lecture-led
blended
learning
Flexible
teaching
Efficiencies
Student-led
blended
learning
Adaptive
learning
Inclusivity and
accessibility
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17. Student-led learning seen as the ‘best’ in the 2030 horizon
• Pedagogy and content takes
priority over technology, but
concern at severe lack of
investment in digital infrastructure
• University staff continue to
struggle with sustained change
• Managing student
expectations and improving
student collaboration central to
improving perception and
experience
Digital
ecosystem
Personalised
learning
Fully online
experience
Inclusivity and
accessibility
Adaptive
learning
Student-led
blended
learning
Efficiencies
Flexible
teaching
Lecture-led
blended
learning
Resilience
Socially
distanced
campus
Face to face
experience
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18. Jisc Strategy
Higher Education learning, teaching
and student experience strategy
Transforming
teaching
Reimagining
assessment
Adaptive
learning
Empowering
leadership
Digital
student
experience
Intelligent
campus and
platforms
Learning and
Teaching
reimagined
Learning and teaching reimagined

19. “The sheer number of staff who are now
completely skilled up in a number of critical
digital platforms has been an absolute godsend
for me as the CIO of the university.”
Gavin McLachlan
vice-principal chief information officer, and librarian to the University of Edinburgh