Digital Education Strategic Planning
2023 Strategic Priorities Documents
The 2023 Strategic Priorities for Course Scheduling and Modalities Report and accompanying documents present a scheduling and modalities framework not based on a single metric or particular modality but on the proposition that it is vital that we explicitly and actively overcome and alleviate our students’ course scheduling challenges, which ultimately hinder students’ progress toward graduation. The report lays out the strategy and the Guide document offers up step-by-step considerations and tools to help disciplines consider and address some of the primary challenges students face.
The scheduling challenges students face are varied and complex as they seek to fulfill their degree requirements, ranging from their course needs as transfer students, to their time constraints as caregivers, to their scheduling conflicts as students majoring in a program that only offers a specialized class once a year on a day and time that they must be at work. The solutions to each of these challenges will in turn look different, which is why we ask that every discipline undertake an evaluation to determine where the program and degree bottlenecks might occur and how they can be remedied.
2017 Strategic Priorities Documents
This 2017 Digital Education Strategic Priorities document provides a brief description of the main elements of online/hybrid education strategies across higher education. Subsequently, UM-Dearborn's digital education core principles are discussed, in order to reframe discussion around digital education and inform a shared campus philosophy and vision for digital education. Finally, the document outlines the broad strategic priorities and related initiatives discussed in the Online Subcommittee and the Council of Associate Deans.