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Debbie McVitty introduced the panel with the following preamble. We would be reflecting on digital transformation: organisations, cultures and practices.
That technology imposes on every aspect of our lives.
What this means for university cultures and how we teach and communicate with students.
A warning that Covid has created a crisis condition that has forced us onto a testbed preemptively - not everyone was ready for it.
And the difficulty of trying to add change to old platforms and practices. (The recommendation is to start again on an entirely different space and then fold the successes into the university online space).
The first speakers were:
Patrick Mullane, Executive Director, Harvard Business School Online
Rebecca Galley, Director, Learning Experience and Technology, Open University.
My own reflection on this is that it helps to have an understanding of the 'diffusion of innovations'. Going digital with has been a clear case of innovators and early adopters (The Open University, Coursera, Duke University, Coventry University ), as well as late adopters (Oxford and Cambridge University) and laggards (FE colleges and Secondary Schools?).
