Explore the Digital Strategy

• In support of the University’s strategic goal to be a leader in curriculum development and program innovation, digital capabilities will be leveraged to enhance in-person teaching and to provide high-quality online and blended academic program delivery models.
  
  
• We will develop and deliver inclusive pedagogy that considers all aspects of accessibility and bridges the digital divide, providing equitable access to course content and assessments.
  
  
• We will offer learning experiences that prepare graduates with digital competencies for their future endeavors anywhere in the world.

Goals:

1.1. Create online learning experiences of exceptional quality;
1.2. Integrate digital literacy as a core skill for all students to acquire through their academic programs;
1.3. Develop a strategy for a digital campus encompassing all aspects of the student journey.

• Dalhousie’s digital capabilities will be person-centred to enhance the activities of faculty members, students, and staff.
  
  
• Technology will be easy to use with consistency and integration of platforms and processes, and ongoing training available for all. 
  
  
• The digital fluency of faculty and staff, and our integrated planning, will ensure students, faculty, and staff learn with accessible, equitable, and responsive systems. 
  
  
• Digital Dalhousians will enjoy personalized services throughout their lifelong learning journey and partnerships with Dalhousie.

Goals:

2.1. Enhance digital literacy through ongoing training and support for faculty and staff;
2.2. Enable everyone to be mobile-ready and normalize and enable remote work, when appropriate;
2.3. Keep the user experience simple by adopting person-focused accessible systems and applications.
2.4. Improve access to the systems, tools, and broadband needed to successfully engage as a member of the Dalhousie community.

• Create an integrated, barrier-free digital research environment to stimulate and support innovation and achievement of research goals, and to enhance the researcher and student experience.

Goals:

3.1. Design a framework for development, maintenance, and enhancement of digital infrastructure that supports innovation and achievement of research goals;
3.2. Create a researcher-oriented digital environment.

• Enhance flexibility, accessibility, and innovation in open and inclusive digital environments to enrich internal engagement and expand our service to diverse local and global communities; to develop breakthrough research and innovation, to drive sustainable, economic growth; and to contribute to cultural and social development.

Goals:

4.1. Grow community relationships, profile, and impact using digitally enabled systems;
4.2. Adopt a user-journey approach and improve how we communicate with, and inform, our Dalhousie communities, both internal and external;
4.3. Improve community access to Dalhousie learning experiences and expertise by lowering geographic, economic, and cultural barriers of access.

• The human element is the central governing factor in developing our digital infrastructure, to ensure that investments in technology are made in support of Dalhousie’s mission.
  
  
• Dal’s accessible and person-centered digital environment will foster a shared systems culture that protects privacy and security, and enables accessibility, while being supported by training and communications.
  
  
• We will implement approaches, processes, and functions that reinforce exceptional teaching, research, and student experiences, as well as effective and efficient administration, with integrated, flexible digital platforms, data, and applications.

Goals:

5.1. Design transparent, visible digital governance that enables ethical, environmentally, and financially sustainable decisions;
5.2. Utilize a university-wide approach to systems, software and equipment acquisitions to ensure integration, coordination, security, privacy, and cost-effectiveness;
5.3. Facilitate data as an institutional asset;
5.4. Improve efficiency and effectiveness for teaching, research, and business processes by digitizing processes and reducing fragmentation of administrative services.