Digital Learning Innovation Trends

Underrepresented students enrolled in postsecondary educational institutions in the U.S. are faced with key barriers and challenges that have created an equity gap. By considering the needs of underrepresented students, faculty and institutions are able to implement digital course ware solutions to take a step towards closing the equity gap and improving student learning, course completion, persistence, and degree completion. Along with the imperative to improve student outcomes and close the equity gap, digital learning innovations have the potential to improve instruction and learning effectiveness by facilitating effective pedagogies of and to improve the efficiency in higher education. The report is a systematic review of relevant data about core and emerging learning technologies that are being applied in the field and the potential impact on student success. It provides a summary of 10 of the most prominent trends in digital learning today. [The work was undertaken on behalf of the Every Learner Everywhere project of WCET (the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies).]