Most universities have a set of graduate attributes and increasingly those include digital skills and literacy. In consideration of both – discipline-based digital skills to meet ever changing industry expectations AND discipline-neutral digital literacy that contributes to graduates’ digital identity, universities are encouraged to articulate their Digital Learning Strategy. The key to a digital learning strategy is to keep it agile by relying on ongoing processes and structures to support the changing environment in the digital learning space. This presentation reviews the sasic elements of such a strategy.

1. Crafting a Digital
Learning Strategy
The Key to Equipping Graduates with Essential
Digital Skills and Literacy
www.vitaeready.org

2. Continually maintaining and upgrading
digital infrastructure, including software,
hardware and networks to support the
delivery of digital learning. An agile strategy
embeds mechanisms to track the use of
technology and organizes campaigns to
increase the use and adaptation of new
technologies on ongoing basis.
#1
Crafting a Digital
Learning Strategy
www.vitaeready.org

3. Adoption of a Learning Management System (LMS)
to support delivery of online and hybrid courses,
manage student data and enable communication and
collaboration in the digital space. For online courses,
the strategy should include mechanisms for quality
assurance such as course evaluations and peer
reviews to ensure courses meet high standards for
online or hybrid learning.
#2
Crafting a Digital Learning Strategy
www.vitaeready.org

4. Adoption of technology in teaching and
learning in onsite and in-person courses
to facilitate students’ digital literacy and
skills in and beyond their discipline.
#3
Crafting a Digital Learning Strategy
www.vitaeready.org

5. Guidelines for designing courses that are optimized for teaching and
learning with technology. This should include considerations for multimedia,
interactivity, accessibility, and assessment in course design.
#4
Crafting a Digital Learning Strategy
www.vitaeready.org

6. Training and support for faculty to
develop and deliver courses that
incorporate adequate technology. This
may include ongoing in-service faculty
training, workshops, webinars and one-
on-one coaching.
#5
Crafting a Digital
Learning Strategy
www.vitaeready.org

7. Support for students to navigate digital learning
environments, including technical support and
guidance on effective online practices. Considerations
for their own digital identity and ability to produce
digital content safely and appropriately should be
included in course syllabi.
#6
Crafting a Digital Learning Strategy
www.vitaeready.org

8. Collecting and analyzing data on
student engagement,
performance, satisfaction,
employment outcomes, etc. to
continuously improve course
design and delivery.
#7
Crafting a Digital Learning Strategy
www.vitaeready.org

9. Collaboration between schools, faculties, and researchers to produce
innovative digital solutions.
#8
Crafting a Digital Learning Strategy
www.vitaeready.org

10. Ready to Give Your Graduates a
Competitive Edge?
Check your Practices at:
vitaeready.org/benchmarking
www.vitaeready.org