November, 2016

Chronicle of 1st D-TRANSFORM Leadership School – Day 5 Final (Nov. 18th, 2016)

by Jean-François Colas, UOC Doctoral School Pillars, bricks and coins in the spotlight of a ludic and particularly dynamic last Working Session on ‘Strategies for HE in the national context’ led by Susanna Sancassani (Politecnico di Milano – METID). For wrapping up the 1st D-TRANSFORM Leadership School and incorporating the information distributed during the previous […]

Day 4 – Chronicle of 1st D-TRANSFORM Leadership School (Nov. 17th, 2016)

by Jean-François Colas, UOC Doctoral School Back to the main venue at Les Glòries (Barcelona) for a fourth day of the 1st D-TRANSFORM Leadership School rich of interventions on Senior leadership and on Digital disruption. Josep A. Planell (UOC’s President) opened the Keynote session ‘Universities disrupted’ with some questions that pave the way for UOC’s […]

Day 3 – Chronicle of 1st D-TRANSFORM Leadership School (Nov. 16th, 2016)

by Jean-François Colas, UOC Doctoral School Two working sessions (‘New approaches to assessment’ and ‘Benchmarking digital institutions’) and a Keynote (‘What can we learn from small innovative online HE providers?’) were at the menu of the third day of the 1st D-TRANSFORM Leadership School held at the UOC headquarters in Tibidabo. Carles Sigalés (UOC’s Vicepresident […]

Chronicle of 1st D-TRANSFORM Leadership School – Day 2 (Nov. 15th, 2016)

by Jean-François Colas, UOC Doctoral School The second day of the 1st D-TRANSFORM Leadership School focused on on-campus solutions: digital library, academic resistance and learning analytics. The newcomers having been introduced, the first Working Session of the day ‘Digital libraries and digitally enabled study spaces: more than just a librarian’s issue?’ was launched. Rosie Jones […]

Chronicle of 1st D-TRANSFORM Leadership School – Day 1 (Nov. 14th, 2016)

by Jean-François Colas, UOC Doctoral School On the afternoon of its first day, the 1st D-TRANSFORM Leadership School—hosted by The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and aimed at preparing Higher Education leaders to become the change makers of the university of t omorrow—imparted its Opening Keynote and its first Working Session. After being welcome by […]

Guidelines for governance of HE institutions

It has already been indicated on more than one occasion, that the digital culture of governing bodies is essential for a successful digital transition in education, because these governing bodies will define and drive the transformation strategies of their establishments. In particular, information about digital trends, gathering the most promising experimentations, knowledge of future users […]

One week of thoughtful talks and discussions!

The 1st D-TRANSFORM Leadership School has started today in Barcelona, at Hotel Silken  Diagonal, organized by UOC in behalf of D-TRANSFORM project consortium. The 1st D-TRANSFORM leadership school is a unique opportunity to update leaders and senior managers in European higher education institutions with knowledge, skills and attitudes which they need to have in order […]