Presentation for EDEN's European Online and Distance Learning Week on 'Digitally enhanced learning at European higher education institutions – state of play and prospects' - Thursday, 5 November 2020, 13:00 CET More info: https://www.eden-online.org/eden_conference/eodlw-2020-7/

2. Digitally Enhanced Learning and
Teaching in European Higher
Education Institutions
5 November 2020
13.00 (CET)

3. 3
Survey “Digitally Enhanced Learning and Teaching in
European Higher Education Institutions”
• Data collection: March to June 2020
• Survey targeting institutional leadership
• 368 responses- different types of institutions – mainly universities
• Only survey gathering responses from the entire EHEA – 48 countries
• Longitudinal data – 2014 report, Trends reports
• Report launch: Nov/Dec 2020
3 year Erasmus+ project (January 2020- December 2022)
Goal: Encouraging European HEIs to self-reflect on
digitalisation within their institution and to enhance their
institutional approaches to digitalisation
https://eua.eu/101-projects/772-digi-he.html

4. Blended Learning
75%
• Use blended learning throughout the institution or in some faculties
throughout the EHEA
• 100% in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland
90%
have most students on campus (before Covid-19)
38%
offer online degree programmes (usually a few)

5. Curriculum and digital skills
94%
• Specific to the discipline/study field
91%
• General digital literacy
83%
• Data literacy and safety
81%
• Ethics and behaviour in digital environments
• Although almost all
institutions address
general digital literacy
and study-field-specific
skills, these are not fully
embedded everywhere
throughout the
compulsory learning offer
*Combining “in all or most student programmes”, “only in specific study programmes” and “there is a
voluntary offer”

6. Quality Assurance
28%
23%
41%
4% 3%
Digitalisation and internal quality assurance
processes
Yes, integrated into our regular
internal QA
Yes, there is a special approach for
digitally enhanced learning
No, but it is under discussion
No
I do not know
53% have internal QA
in place
+22% from 2014

7. Lifelong Learning- developments & perceptions
48%
digitalisation
has contributed
to major
transformation
in widening
access
49%
reach out to
new learner
groups - one of
the main
motivations for
offering
MOOCs
65%
growing
demand for
short courses
(non-degree) in
blended mode,
compared to
53% in online
mode and 44%
on campus
65%
mature and
adult students
are the main
target of online
learning
81%
widening
access through
digitalisation is
a strategic
development
priority

8. Internationalisation & mobility
33%
35%
16%
9%
No
Not yet, but we are planning to
Yes, in some faculties
Yes, throughout the institution
Virtual Mobility
86%
• Outreach and learning
provision for international
students
85%
• Collaboration with other HEIs
at international level
77%
• Replacement of physical
mobility with virtual mobility
and online meetings
Next five years, strategic
development priority in:

9. Strategy and structures for digitally enhanced learning
12% - no strategy in place
• Northern Europe 11%
• Western Europe 10%
• Southern Europe 9%
• Eastern Europe/Central Asia 11%
• Eastern EU 15%
• Balkans 10%
• Belgium 40%
Increase in strategic approaches for digital learning
•2014 - 63%
•2020 - 88% (63% part of an institutional strategy)
70% - digital learning strategic priority for the institution
More centralised/shared responsibility for digital learning
•“transformative impact of digital learning”
65% involve staff and students in governance of digitalisation
Top 3 enablers: staff & student participation (75%) & strategy (43%)

10. National and European strategies and actions
European Commission:
• European Education Area /Research Area Communication
• Digital Education Action Plan
Bologna Process Paris Communiqué 2018
• Commitments
• “enhance lifelong and flexible learning”
• “foster digital skills and competences”
• “improve data analysis, educational research and foresight”
• “remove regulatory obstacles to the provision of open and digital
education.”
• Call for action
• “We call on the BFUG to take the issue of digitalisation forward in the next
working period.”

11. 62%
65%
75%
92%
92%
95%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Plans for updating the institution’s policies on remote work
Enhancing online library use
Plans for enhancing digital capacity in the future beyond the crisis
Exploring new ways of teaching
Exploring new tools for communication and collaboration
Increased use of virtual staff meetings
Changes due to Covid-19
What would be the new normal? What do we want it to be?