Demonstrating digital transformation - Edge Hill University

About

Edge Hill University is on the cusp of a new 5-year institutional strategy. Alongside this, a new digital strategy and a significant commitment to digital transformation, innovation and continuous improvement of our digital infrastructure.

Founded in 1885, Edge Hill University is a multi-award-winning University based on a 160-acre campus in Ormskirk, Lancashire. An educational community, providing high quality teaching, support, and transformational opportunities. Edge Hill has expertise in supporting students from non-traditional higher education backgrounds, 70% of Edge Hill’s undergraduate students have at least one widening participation characteristic.

Edge Hill’s digital learning team and wider library & learning services department successfully implemented a major VLE upgrade and with it, a considerable change in approach to designing blended learning. Co-design and student voice was core to the approach and a successful student digital internship, run since summer 2021 has seen over 80 students work in the digital learning team to enhance course content within the VLE.

Since the implementation of the new VLE and approach, Edge Hill has worked closely with Jisc as one of the 17 pilot universities who utilised Jisc beyond blended resources in phase one to take forward their strategies and approaches for further enhancement of blended learning. This initial work has already had impact across programmes, particularly non-modular approaches, but this work will continue to inform and shape Edge Hill’s updated learning, teaching and assessment strategy for 2026 and beyond.

At this event we’ll hear from senior leaders who will share their current transformation journey, future plans and digital strategy as well as their co-creation approach to digital education, learner spaces, library resources and where beyond blended has fed into our future teaching and learning strategy.

Quotes from previous events:

• "The day was varied, fast paced and plenty of opportunity for networking. Very well-planned sessions from a variety of speakers with different perspectives, which were packed with information and tangible ideas to take away"
• "Really nice balance of high level and practical sessions in a great venue"
• "It was a great living case study on digital transformation"