Medr’s work on digital learning supports Strategic Aim 2 from our Strategic Plan:
“To create a flexible and joined up tertiary system where everyone can acquire the skills and knowledge they need for a changing economy and society.”
Digital learning
We support tertiary education providers to integrate digital technology into their delivery and use digital technologies and tools to enhance the learner’s experience
What is digital learning?
“Digital Learning is learning that involves any use of digital devices and networks, for example to access digital resources, use digital software, or participate in learning via digital networks.”
Jisc; Blended and hybrid learning: a study of current approaches in Welsh further education colleges (2024)
Digital 2030
Digital 2030 is a ten-year strategic framework for digital learning originally published by the Welsh Government in June 2019. It applies to further education institutions (colleges), core apprenticeship providers and adult community learning providers. Responsibility for Digital 2030 transferred from the Welsh Government to Medr on 1 August 2024.
This version of Digital 2030 has been updated by Medr in 2026 to:
- incorporate significant changes to the context and landscape for digital learning
- reflect how the sector has evolved since 2019
- set priorities for the remainder of the framework period (to 2030).
The framework was co-produced with the sector, setting out a shared vision and aims to achieve by 2030.
“Post-16 learning providers will seamlessly integrate digital technology into delivery; and encourage innovation in using inclusive, accessible and bilingual approaches to enhance the learner’s experience. Based on an awareness of the digital skills needed to support the Welsh economy, providers will equip learners and staff with the digital capabilities and confidence they will need to success in everyday life and in work.”
Digital 2030 Vision
Before reviewing Digital 2030, we asked Jisc to engage with learning providers and key stakeholders to check that the framework is still relevant and still valued by the sector; consider progress to date; identify any essential updates and inform the next set of strategic priorities.
Jisc’s preparatory work produced the following outputs:
Digital 2030 mid-term review: Executive Summary Digital 2030: The challenges then and now Digital 2030: User storiesDigital grants for learning providers
For more information about current grants for learning providers, see:
- Medr/2026/18: Digital capital funding for further education institutions in 2026/27
Digital capital funding is intended to support further education institutions in developing longer-term and more strategic approaches to investment in digital equipment, devices and infrastructure and to maintain robust and resilient
digital services and systems
- Medr/2026/26: Digital revenue funding for further and higher education institutions in 2026/27
Digital revenue funding up to £32,500 each has been awarded to further education and higher education institutions for activities including digital transformation and collaborative approaches to digital learning.
Evidence about digital learning in Wales
Jisc has worked closely with Medr to develop an up-to-date evidence based which informs decision-making around our future approach to digital learning and digital investment, under Digital 2030 and beyond. Learning providers, representative bodies and key stakeholders in relevant parts of the tertiary sector have been involved in each piece of work.
Jisc’s findings and recommendations from each of these studies are highlighted in their executive summaries:
Enhancing the digital future of Welsh further
education (FE)
This report considers what is required to sustain and scale progress in FE after a multi-year initiative which ended in July 2025
Study of AI needs and priorities across the tertiary sector in Wales
This work will inform Medr’s position paper on AI in teaching and learning by March 2027
Digital learning needs of apprenticeship provision in Wales
These recommendations for core apprenticeships provision (at Levels 2 to 5) will be considered in line with Medr’s new apprenticeships programme from 1 August 2027.
A further piece of work on digital learning in higher education in Wales is scheduled for the 2026/27 academic year.
Jisc
Jisc is a registered charity and not-for-profit organisation which supports tertiary education and research communities across the UK in the use of digital technologies and data. As one of Jisc’s UK funders, we provide approximately £3.3 million to Jisc each academic year for services and support to eligible learning providers in Wales.
Under our annual grant agreement, Jisc also provides specialist advice and practical support for Digital 2030 and strategic digital learning priorities in Wales.
Learning providers in Wales can find out more by contacting their Jisc relationship manager.
For additional information, please contact [email protected].
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