Digital Pedagogies for Higher Education: The Design of an Online Training Programme for Academic Staff

Abstract

This paper explores the design of an online training programme within the Transformative Digital Pedagogies for Higher Education (TDP4HE) Erasmus+ KA2 project, aiming to empower academic staff with competences for transformative digital pedagogies. The programme addresses three core priorities: fortifying academic readiness for digital education, fostering innovation in learning and teaching, and recognising excellence in education. Grounded in the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and responding to challenges highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the TDP4HE project integrates transformative pedagogies, primarily learner-centric approaches, with digital technologies. The online training programme, developed with a needs analysis from the European University of Technology (EUt+), includes a self-assessment framework, learner-centred curriculum design, and a delivery mode involving webinars for wider academic consumption. The TDP4HE project envisions a digitally adept, student- centred, resilient, and innovative higher education landscape, aligned with global aspirations for quality education.