Strategic planning for online learning

In 2019 a team led by Professor Jacqueline Baxter , of the Department of Public Leadership and social enterprise , The Open University Business school was awarded over 300k by UKRI to investigate the extent to which, schools were developing their whole school digital strategies, before during and in the post lockdown period. The research findings are summarised in the paper : https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/berj.3845 and information on the project  can be found here : https://www.open.ac.uk/projects/leading-online-learning/.  Part of the funding founded the development of a free course for school leaders and trustees: Developing your digital strategy. This course is badged and available at this link. It is a very practical course which leads you through the process of creating a whole school digital strategy. The course can be used by school leaders and CEOs as well as trustees/governors. It contains downloadable/printable documents that can be used at staff/governor meetings in order to gain input from stakeholders, and already has over 800 registrations.