The complete digital learning transformation at Erasmus University
How to become the ‘University of the Future’
The Erasmus University Rotterdam is, with over 31.000 students in 2018, one of the biggest universities of the Netherlands. It has consistently been in the top 3% of the most important rankings of the world. Since 2012 the number of learning spaces has grown from 225 to almost 400 lecture and meeting rooms.
The Erasmus University Rotterdam has formulated a clear vision on where the field of education is heading and which requirements need to be fulfilled to become the ‘University of the Future’. The university understands that both in the academic curriculum and the support organisation the right professionals need in to be in the right place.
More and more globalisation and the accompanying race to find the ‘best student’ and in turn ‘the best teacher’ adds to the need to review the vision and strategy of all higher education institutions. Next to his, digitalisation is a necessary step to ensure the digital learning transformation of the students and teachers is facilitated in an optimal fashion.
At the Erasmus university the right early adapters were in place to, together with Kinly, evolve the traditional one-way lecture method to more didactically rigorous and more successful ways of teaching. The digitalisation strategy of the university has truly led to a full digital learning transformation.
Lecture halls and solutions based on tried and true standards
Kinly’s experience in education, based on a large number of customers’ relationships within higher education, has made for new insights in standardisation of lecture halls and the equipment used to facilitate the demanding requirements of lecturers, staff and students. Together with Erasmus, Kinly has developed a number of these standards, facilitating the lecture halls.
This includes scheduled recordings, on demand recording tools - both hardware and software - and live collaboration tools that are being used on a daily basis.
In the Erasmus case that included consolidating towards one video platform provider Panopto instead of multiple solutions used in the past. This means that all recordings and live interactions in these lecture halls are uploaded to the platform, resulting in optimal searchability and easy integration with the university’s standard learning management system.
