Digital education can be thought of as the innovative use of digital education tools and approaches during teaching and learning. Exploring the use of digital education tools gives us the opportunity to design engaging, collaborative learning opportunities in the courses we deliver, and these can take the form of blended or fully online courses and programmes. Even fully on-campus, face-to-face courses can often benefit from the mindful introduction of digital tools into your practice.

Explicitly, digital education tools generally refers to technology that facilitates the above. An obvious example of a digital education tool is our Canvas Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) at Liverpool. A less obvious one is Microsoft Word.

You may well be wondering, even at this early stage in the course: "So, what exactly can digital education tools do to elevate my courses?" This is a valid question and, just to get your creative juices flowing, here is a list of some of the module elements which digital tools can help you rethink and enhance:

discussion & Annotation,	quizzing	portfolio building
audience participation	assessment diversity	inclusive design
student content creation,	community building	screen recording
asynchronous resource building,	collaborative working	critical analysis