- Rethinking how brick and mortar campuses can be transformed to improve learner outcomes, meet net zero targets and operate efficiently
- Improving cybersecurity in the context of evolving network security architecture
- Staff development, IT governance and people-centric digital strategies across campus
- Case studies in VR classrooms, innovative curriculum models and personalised learning
- Looking at data insights, how can learner analytics be used to bring actual value to students?
- With AI in the classroom, how can teachers evolve with widely used technologies and bring ethics to the forefront?
- Amplifying the student voice when it comes to digital provision
- Streamlining student services through digital so they are accessible to all who need them
- How digital can leverage the international student experience
- Case studies on generative AI in research and pairing innovation and digital
- The growing importance of digital repositories and digital humanities
- Advancing innovation in times of financial predicament
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Advancing your institution's digital ambition
Although digital transformation continues to innovate and to inspire the sector, universities are having to think more intelligently about their digital estates. Financial pressures and procurement woes mean that IT departments are making cutbacks, and innovation and research projects are being scaled back. These challenges coincide with an ever-increasing online student population, a changing world of work and the AI revolution fundamentally altering the 21st century university landscape.
Digital Universities UK 2025 gathered leaders from higher education, industry and policy to celebrate and share cutting-edge ideas on digital transformation.
Hosted in partnership with Lancaster University, the event presented the latest challenges and opportunities of digital transformation alongside the culture change needed to strengthen the core mission of universities, enabling the global sharing of knowledge and learning without boundaries.
The agenda offered a variety of keynotes, interactive panels and workshops, live demonstrations, idea sharing, real-time case studies and opportunities for networking.
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Explore digital estates planning for 21st century university campuses:
Teaching and learning
Leaders in learning strategy will discuss transforming digital learning environments for the modern learner:
Student experience
Leaders in transforming global experience and delivering sector-leading personalised student experiences from admissions to graduation will explore:
Scaling innovation and research
Discover how to transform research outputs and achieve excellence in innovation in pressing financial circumstances:
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Brilliant event to explore all things digital in higher education, great for networking and finding out about great opportunities whilst understanding shared challenges. Cannot wait to go next year! – Programme Business Change Manager for Digital Transformation, University of Oxford |
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