I’m very excited to publicly share a project that I’ve developed with great care and conviction from the University of Murcia, as part of the European project CUTIE (University Competences for the Use of Technology in Education and Institutional Development). This is the open course “Strategic Leadership for Digital Transformation in Universities”, now available on the project’s website at the University of Murcia:
https://www.um.es/cute/Liderazgo/
This course is a translation, adaptation and contextualisation of the original version developed by the CUTIE team at the University of Galway (especially by Iain MacLaren), to whom I’m deeply grateful for their generosity in sharing not only the materials, but also their pedagogically rich, ethically grounded, and institutionally focused approach.
At the UMU team in CUTIE, we have adapted this course to the Spanish context, incorporating key references such as the University Digital Teaching Competence Framework (MCDDU) and adjusting the language, examples and key questions to align with our cultural, political and educational realities. The result is a resource that preserves the depth of the original design while speaking directly to the challenges and dynamics of our universities.
I would especially liketo thank Ana Navarro Hernández, Lucía Terrer Martínez, Clara de Paco and Núria Vanaclocha, who have generously and effectively supported essential tasks such as translation review and material organisation. Their collaboration has been key to ensuring that this course meets the standards of quality, clarity and care we aimed for.
The course is available freely and openly, under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) licence, which means that any individual or institution can use, adapt and share it. Our goal is for it to serve as a foundation for faculty training programmes, as supporting material for institutional initiatives on digital transformation, or as a resource to foster strategic reflection on educational leadership in times of change.
It is structured into five short modules, each consisting of a core reading, a practical activity and a curated set of additional resources. It is a flexible proposal, designed to encourage critical thinking and transformative engagement from within university leadership.
I hope this resource proves useful, inspiring, or at least thought-provoking for those who are reflecting on how to support digital transformation processes through a pedagogical, ethical and people-centred lens.
We’d be delighted to receive any reasonable suggestions that could help us improve this resource. Please feel free to share it with anyone you think might find it useful, and if you decide to use it in your institution or in a training activity, don’t hesitate to let us know. We’d love to hear about your experience.
