Julie and Lisa discuss what digital transformation is and the central purpose of it to guide Higher Education into the future.

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Welcome to balancing the shift with Dr. Lisa Jacka and Dr. Julie Lindsay in this episode we discuss digital transformation with a conversation about our perceptions of what this is and what it means for the future of higher education.

Digital transformation. Hmm. It's an interesting term, isn't it? And we do hear the word transformation a lot these days. Academic transformation, curriculum transformation, assessment, transformation, anything transformation but it's been around for a while, Lisa, hasn't it? What, can we say about this that's useful for everybody moving forward into a more digital and fluent and technology infused future in higher education? What is digital transformation? How would you define it?

Do we need to define digital transformation? Are we looking for a definition for digital transformation? I think we've found a good definition through EDUCAUSE, one of our organizations who come up with nice definitions for things. But maybe we get a bit caught up in trying to define something like this. And if we break it down into the digital, because all things technological I guess, and then transformation, I think transformations the big ticket word in the title, but what does that mean? It means different things to different people, I think. And so it's useful to have somebody such as EDUCAUSE, which was one that we've both been reading, to help frame up what transformation might be and how it how it occurs. And I guess I'm thinking about whether transformation occurs organically or if it is something that needs pushing along, particularly in an organization like a university.

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