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Promoting a Culture of Learning Innovation:
Why a Good Strategy Isn’t Enough
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Mark Brown, Jon Altuna, Diana And one & Helen Peterbauer
Thursday 26th May 2022

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Jon Altuna
Mondragon University
Spain
Diana Andone
Politehnica University of Timisoara
Romania
Helene Peterbauer
European Universities Association
Belgium
My colleagues…

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https://eua.eu/101-projects/772-digi-he.html
Background…

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Background…
https://eua.eu/101-projects/772-digi-he.html
2021 2021

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2022
https://eua.eu/101-projects/772-digi-he.html

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Outline…
1. What is relationship between strategy and culture?
2. What needs to be included in your strategy?
3. How do you monitor your progress?

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“How do you build an enabling institutional
culture to harness the benefits and
opportunities of new digitally enhanced
models of learning and teaching?”
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The even BIGGER question is…

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https://eua.eu/resources/publications/656:quality-culture-in-european-universities-a-bottom-up-approach.html

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1. What is the relationship between strategy and culture?

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Nudge policy…
Photo by Christopher Williams on Unsplash

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2. What needs to be included in your strategy?

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Key questions…
• Why is DELT important to your institution?
• What do you want to achieve from investing in
DELT?
• How will you go about implementing DELT to
achieve your goals?

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Integrating themes…
• Fostering digital transformation
• Understanding that collaboration is crucial
• Recognising that change does not follow a straight line

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3. How do you monitor your progress?

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● To what extent are DCU delivering on their strategic intent in relation to Digital
Learning, as envisaged in the 2012-2017 and 2017-2022 strategies?
● How is (and how can) digital learning contribute to transforming both formal
and informal learning at DCU?
● To what extent are DCU staff and students prepared to embrace digital
approaches to learning, and to what extent are these approaches effective as
part of the DCU learning experience?
● How is DCU’s approach to supporting and developing digital learning aligned
to national and international best practice and research?
● What aspirations should the University have for digital learning over the next
5 years?
Review questions…

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https://www.dcu.ie/qpo/published-quality-review-reports

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‘You can’t just take something off
the shelf and expect it to work just
because it looks good’
(Belshaw, 2017)

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Why a good strategy isn’t enough…

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Photo by Manuel Nägeli on Unsplash
Why a good strategy isn’t enough…

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Go raibh maith
agaibh!
Thank you