Roundtable 4 – Safeguarding students, digital learning journeys and wellbeing in pandemic times

Covid-19 has accelerated and amplified, digital transformation in universities. With universities shifting their entire workforce and ways of working from on-campus to home to enable remote teaching, it’s had a significant impact on student wellbeing, and with that, an unprecedented change in roles and responsibilities of the educator.

In this session, we discuss how technology providers, educators and stakeholders can closely work with institutions to combine technological innovation that delivers healthier and safer digital learning spaces.Covid-19 has accelerated and amplified, digital transformation in universities. With universities shifting their entire workforce and ways of working from on-campus to home to enable remote teaching, it’s had a significant impact on student wellbeing, and with that, an unprecedented change in roles and responsibilities of the educator.

We did a pulse survey and we found an enormous number of students, about 60% were, registering that they had some kind of digital poverty implications.
Jackie Potter, Professor of HE Learning, Oxford Brookes University

Watch the roundtable discussion

In the UKTCG’s forth roundtable event, a panel of experts gather higher education and university organisations to discuss best practises, solutions and strategies to develop better service provisions.

Panel speakers

Peter Nikoletatos, Education Industry Manager, TechnologyOne
Ben Shorrock, UKTCG Steering Board
Jackie Potter, Professor of HE Learning, Oxford Brookes University
James Gardiner, Associate of Innovation, University of East Anglia
Laura Stevens, Centre Director, Future Space University West of England
Siobain Hone, Graduate Enterprise Manager, University of Bath and SETsquared Student Enterprise Practice Group Chair (SETsquared is the enterprise collaboration of the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Surrey, Southampton and Exeter)
Simon Chutter, Sussex Innovation & Education
Therese Reinheimer-Jones, Associate Director Student Engagement and Achievement, University of Sussex
Robyn Guillaume-Smith, Programme Manager, Mentally Healthy Universities Programme, MIND