Digitizing Higher Education (edX)

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Digitizing Higher Education (edX)
Explore the impact of digitization on how universities and colleges function administratively and academically. Globally, higher education institutions are grappling with the effects of an increasingly digital world. This course provides an overview of how digitization impacts the economics, administration, academics, and research practices of universities and colleges. Higher education administrators, faculty, staff, and students will benefit from this course by exploring the emerging structure and role of higher education.

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Participants will engage with key trends that are shaping higher education and learn how these trends are amplified by the growing digital structure of society. In order to prepare their institution to become digital, learners will go through processes of evaluating trends, determining impact on education practices, and finally produce a strategic department or organizational planning document.


What you'll learn

- Prominent digital technologies impacting higher education

- The influence of technology on research practices

- New models of teaching and learning enabled by digital technologies

- Making sense of organizational and learning data

- Creating a digital strategy for your university

- Monitoring and tracking your progress toward digitization


Course Syllabus


Week 1: The Great Global Digitization

Week 2: The Economics of Digitization on Higher Education

Week 3: Digital Administration

Week 4: Digital Research

Week 5: Digital Teaching and Learning

Week 6: Becoming Digital



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