Digital Transformation on D'Arcy Norman, PhD

digital transformation is a teaching and learning opportunity

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:49:58 +0000

Reposting the UCalgary News post I wrote for our TI Newsletter:

Digital Transformation (Dx) in higher education has largely been framed as an organizational and IT challenge: enterprise systems, cloud migration, data governance, workforce development. That framing makes sense for the people leading those efforts, and the work is genuinely important. But it can leave a gap for those of us whose daily work is about teaching and learning. What does digital transformation look like when the starting point is pedagogy, not infrastructure?

UCalgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching - Call for Proposals

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 09:18:21 -0700

I have the honour of co-chairing (with Natasha Kenny) our 2026 University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching.

The conference is shaping up to be an absolute banger. The theme is From Disruption to Connection: Digital Transformation in Postsecondary Education - a timely topic, given… gestures wildly. We have some AMAZING keynotes lined up (watch for announcements in early 2026). The entire 3-day conference is going to be an incredible showcase of communities and our collective work as we are all navigating, shaping, creating, fostering, and responding to various layers of digital transformations.

things I'm watching as a learning technologies and design leader

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:51:52 +0000

I had an impromptu chat with a dear friend who I respect for his thoughtfulness and approach to the work¹. After the initial “boy, is the nature of our work ever different from back in the olden days when we actually got to build stuff!”, and “it seems like the bulk of our work now is just profoundly unbloggable for all kinds of reasons…”, we eventually got to “so… what kinds of things are you paying attention to?” That’s a big question, worth articulating and sharing.