Opportunities to transform the future of higher education

The place of digital learning became central to education due to the pandemic and this change in models of teaching, learning and assessment are here to stay (Maguire, Dale & Pauli 2020).

This has enabled staff and students to be creative and the future offers many opportunities to transform learning so that it is inclusive, accessible and flexible.

Sharples (2019) discussed the transformations occurring not just through bringing technology into classes but through real improvements in the theory and practice of teaching.

Until the pandemic, whilst some lecturers did want to implement innovation and more active learning in their classes, there were often constraints that prevented this. Due to a myriad of constraints, teachers often resort to more traditional, conservative approaches to teaching and learning (Herodotou et al 2019).

There has been an immense amount of innovation and learning across the sector in the last 2 years.

We invite you to attend the conference to hear about some of this from your colleagues with both what worked and what might not have gone so well.

Within this theme there are a range of sub-themes:

• Curriculum design and review
• Assessment design
• Learning and teaching approaches
• Activities and strategies that support students through their programme
• Activities to build and support learning communities.