Empowering Higher Education in Adopting Digital Learning

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Higher education institutions are embracing digital learning today but mostly, this seems to happen ad-hoc, in a haphazard way. Therefore, a more structural approach is needed, as suggested by the Paris Communiqué (2018). The Bologna implementation report (2018) states that different Bologna countries are at different levels of implementation of national policies in this area. The project thus aims at exchange of knowledge and good practices between countries that are geographically well spread in Europe and implemented digital learning in a different way. Objectives How can national authorities support higher education institutions on this topic, given their autonomy? How can digital learning in higher education be stimulated? This projects builds upon an analysis of the needs of higher education institutions to enhance digital learning in higher education. This project aims at developing guidelines for partner (and other) countries for a national policy on digital learning in higher education at two levels: guidelines for a national policy strategy on digital learning in HE & guidelines including recommendations for higher education institutions. Target groups The target groups of this project are: national authorities of the EHEA-countries (reachable through the BFUG) and the stakeholders of higher education (higher education institutions, students, academic staff, employers). Planned activities The project plans an analysis of the needs of higher education institutions in the participating countries, the comparison of this analysis with the results of the same analysis in the other participating countries, the confrontation of these results with other peers, and the publication of guidelines. Expected impact Enhancing and stimulating digital learning relates to the priority of Learning and Teaching of the Bologna process, but also plays a part in the realisation of mobility, the social dimension and lifelong learning. The impact expected is multidimensional.