Throughout the two days robust discussions on project management, collaborative practices, and change management took place, all designed to aid the attendees with the ideas to drive meaningful and sustainable changes in their respective institutions. The intentions of this group are clear: to make systemic changes in the Technological HE sector by embracing digital transformation and enhancing the learning environment.
The participants identified a range of opportunities during the workshops from improving operational efficiencies and learning from each other’s transformation projects through to more academic areas including, educational equity, sustainability in the curriculum, and the professional development of staff and students. There was an overarching theme of leveraging the momentum of changes sparked by the pandemic emergency (and especially emergency remote teaching practices), as well as opportunities arising from the formation of the new Technological Universities, and in turn the Technological HE sector.
In this report, we summarise the content and structure of the workshop, draw out the resulting themes, and then offer analysis and recommendations within the wider context of Irish HE, and the Technological HE sector in particular.