EDUCAUSE 2023 French and Japanese Delegation Joint Report - EN: Visits to Oakton Community College, Harper College, University of Chicago

The Annual Conference 2023 held in Chicago in October marked the 10th anniversary of the EDUCAUSEFrench Delegation. From the outset, this initiative has sought to provide the French Higher Education communitywith an international perspective on digital issues, by bringing together complementary profiles able toappreciate the major trends and prospects. However, from an initial philosophy of simple participation thatprevailed in the early years, this decade saw an increasing involvement of this Delegation’s members at variouslevels of EDUCAUSE.We have been selected over 15 presentations on a number of topical subjects. In addition, several of ourdelegates are mobilized each year as proposal reviewers for the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference and ELI AnnualMeeting, as well as members of the respective program committees (in 2019 and 2023). Lastly, some of us aremembers of expert panels for the EDUCAUSE Horizon Report and annual Top-10 issues, are active in variousthematic Community Groups (XR and Learning Spaces in particular), or are involved as editors of referencearticles and translators of tools1.Recognition of these different levels of intervention has enabled us to forge privileged connections withEDUCAUSE and in particular its executive members (President, Vice-Presidents and Directors). Our actionshave also given us significant visibility within the North American academic community and beyond, leading tothe establishment of formal collaborations, some of which are long-standing.Amongst them, through long lasting exchanges and meetings during the conference, different bondsincreasingly created themselves during the years between the French and the Japanese Delegations, to finallyreach a formal collaboration around the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2022. Practically speaking, it consistedas a first step to involve a member of the Japanese Delegation in the on-site visits the French one issystematically organizing before and after the event (25 of them have been conducted since 2013), and then asa second step to extend the French Delegation Annual Report published since 10 years (19 editions in Frenchand English, representing 1500 pages) to integrate contributions from the Japanese Delegation, and to release afirst ever Japanese extended translation, which we are very happy to present you today.These different actions all express our commitment to exchanging, raising awareness, informing, inspiring, andsharing to support the development of digital technology in our respective Higher Education communities, andbeyond. We expect this report and the overall French/Japanese cooperation to contribute to the development ofthe digital in Higher Education and the innovation in the Teaching and Learning practices.