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EDEN 2023 Digital Education Leadership Academy (DELA) Official Programme Announced

EDEN 2023 Digital Leadership Academy (DELA) official programme has been announced. Take a look at all the activities that will be held during November 29-December 1 2023 at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona. DELA 2023 will focus on “Vision-Making and Strategy”, “Tackling Digital Transformation Challenges” and “Ensuring Your Institution Is Future-Ready”. Find more information, here.

Day 1 – November 29, Wednesday
Vision-Making and Strategy

Focus: Vision-Making and Strategy

On this first day of the DELA seminar, you will:
– Learn how to mobilise a toolkit for guiding you and your team as digital education leaders;
– Discover how renowned educational leaders have developed a vision and strategy for digital education;
– Develop your own strategic thinking for digital transformation.

8:30 – 11:00 Official Welcome by EDEN DLE President / Presentation of EDEN DELA Seminar / The Digital Education Leader’s Toolkit

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11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

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11:30 – 12:00 Inspiring Talk

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12:30 – 13:30 Networking Lunch

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13:30 – 15:30 Real Life Case Example: Vision Making and Strategy. Strategic Thinking Workshop

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15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

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16:00 – 17:00 Sharing Experiences and Contextualisation

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17:00 – 17:15 Feedback From the Workshop and Wrap-Up

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Day 2 – November 30 – Thursday
Tackling Digital Transformation Challenges

Focus: Tackling Digital Transformation Challenges

On this second day of the DELA seminar, you will:
– Discover how a leading education institution has addressed digital transformation challenges;
– Tackle wicked problems related to digital transformation;
– Discuss the latest trends in digital education leadership research;
– Enjoy a very special social event!

08:30 – 08:45 Introduction to Day 2

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08:45 – 10:45 Real Life case example: Embedding Digital Transformation in a Learning and Teaching Plan, Aligned with Overall Strategy. Sharing Experiences of Digital Transformation

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10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

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11:15 – 13:15   Current topics and concerns in Digital Higher Education

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13:15 – 14:15   Networking lunch

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14:15 – 16:00 Workshop on Research in Digital Education Leadership

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16:00- 16:30 Coffee break

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16:30 – 17:00 Sharing Experiences and Contextualisation

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17:00 – 17.15 Feedback from the workshop and Wrap-up

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DELA Dinner and Social Program

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Day 3 – December 1, Friday
Ensuring Your Institution Is Future-Ready

Focus: Ensuring Your Institution Is Future-Ready

On this third day of the DELA seminar, you will:
– Discover how a renowned educational institution designed a fit-for purpose organisational structure;
– Refine your understanding of leadership mindsets and actions;
– Tackle a concrete challenge to develop leadership capacity throughout your institution;
– Develop your own action plan;
– Receive your DELA diploma!

08:30 – 08:45 Introduction to Day 3

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08:45 -10:45 Real Life Case Example: A Networked Structure For Digital Education. Commentary and Sharing Experiences

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10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

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11:15 – 13:15 Current Topics and Concerns in Digital Higher Education

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13:15 – 14:15   Networking Lunch

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14:15 – 14:45 Sharing Experiences and Contextualisation

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14:45 – 16:15 Future Action Plans: Conclusions, Feedback and Follow-Up

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16.15 – 16:45 Coffee break

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16:45 – 17:30 Diploma Delivering Ceremony and Group Photo

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We want to offer a high quality professional development event about leadership in digital education, therefore, we kindly ask you to fill a short initial information about your leadership role and motivation for the course: 

After filling-in this form we will review your application and will invite to perform the final registration.

Registration fees:

Registration fees  
Early bird regular (till October 15, 2023) 690 eur
Regular (October 16 – November 15, 2023) 750 eur
Early bird EDEN member (till October 15, 2023) 550 eur 
EDEN member (October 16 – November 15, 2023) 590 eur

    • Partial waiver is available to low GDP countries.

    • Discounts are applied to group registrations (3 and more) from the same organization.

The venue for EDEN Digital Education Academy has been purposefully chosen to be Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. The UOC was created in 1995 as the world’s first university with a virtual campus, which allowed its students to study at any time from any location. The University continually uses cutting-edge e-learning research and innovation to refine the UOC methodology. This is possible thanks to UOC R&I and its 50 plus research groups, as well as the eLearning Innovation Center, which drives educational innovation at the UOC. With more than 100,000 graduates, it is now one of the biggest universities in Spain.

EDEN  Digital Education Leadership Academy will be organized in a modern UOC campus located in an ex-industrial creative and cultural Poblenou area allowing an easy reach to the Barcelona central attractions and a walking distance to the beach.

More information about EDEN Digital Education Leadership Academy (DELA) will be revealed in the upcoming weeks.