The Digital Student: Challenges for Universities in a Post-Covid World and How to Address Them provides a thorough discussion of digital pedagogy, enabling readers to understand effective digital teaching methodologies, particularly post-Covid, to enhance online learning experiences and quality. The book discusses issues that have little coverage elsewhere, including the social dimension of online student life, the needs of neurodiverse students, those with mental health concerns and acknowledges that students differ in their level of awareness and competency of how to operate within the digital world. Insights into the impact of digital technologies on student well-being and mental health are discussed and ways that students can be supported are suggested. Online harms to students posed by digital environments are explored, together with cybersecurity and strategies to mitigate the risks. Guidance is provided on digital policy development and implementation. Strategies are suggested to help universities adapt to the evolving digital landscape. A self-assessment tool is provided enabling universities to benchmark their policies and activities against best practice in order to develop and enhance their digital operations
1. Introduction: The Digital Student Challenges for Higher Education
and How to Address Them
2. Can We Regulate Our Way To A Solution? Getting Universities Engaged with
Online Harms and Duty of Care
3. Loneliness and Belonging in Higher Education (HE): The Digital Influence
4. Technology Usage for Students in Education: Reflections on Resilience
5. Should Universities be Concerned by High Levels of Online Abuse in Schools
and Colleges?
6. Virtual Vulnerability: (Re)conceptualising Higher Education Students
Experiences of Trust and Risk Online
7. Reasonable Adjustment Supporting SEND: The Case for Digital Skills
8. Cyber Security and the Digital Student
9. AI Literacy for the Digital Student
10. 'Sort of Here': Exploring Student Screentoria and the Policy Implications
for Learning in Universities
11. Conclusions - Supporting the Digital Student
Andy Phippen is a professor of digital rights at Bournemouth University and a visiting professor at the University of Suffolk. He has worked with the IT sector for over 15 years in a consultative capacity on issues of ethical and social responsibility. He has presented written and oral evidence to parliamentary enquiries related to the public use of ICT and is widely published in the area. In recent years he has specialised in the use of ICTs by children and young people, carrying out a large amount of grass roots research on issues such as their attitudes toward privacy and data protection, file sharing and internet safety. He is a research partner with the UK Safer Internet Centre and is a frequent media commentator on children and the Internet Professor Emma Bond is Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Professor of Socio-Technical Research at the University of Suffolk.
Her research has covered virtual environments, mobile technologies and risk, particularly the everyday interactions between people, society and technology and in developing both innovative and accessible methodologies in research which foster participation with marginalised groups and challenge inequality
