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What is Digital Flagship?

Digital Flagship is a comprehensive, university-wide digital learning initiative to support educational innovation for students and economic development opportunities for the community.

This isn’t a device initiative, it is a student success initiative to blend learning technology throughout the university experience and increase student engagement and learning transformation — both inside and outside the classroom. 

Program Goals

Student Technology

We will provide an immersive and engaging collection of shared tools, platforms, and learning experiences for every incoming first-year Ohio State student. 
Coding Curriculum

This program will create university-wide opportunities for students to learn coding skills to enhance their career-readiness in the app economy. 
iOS Design Lab

Digital Flagship will develop a first of its kind iOS Development Center on campus. This lab will be an outlet for students, faculty, and staff and the greater Ohio community to explore app development from ideation to prototype to market.​

Initiative Overview

Learn more about Digital Flagship and its goals in the coming year.

Governance and Partners

Several important groups contribute to the strategic direction and planning of this initiative. 

  • Executive Sponsors guide strategy and direction
  • An Advisory Group comprised of faculty, staff and students provides programmatic feedback to Digital Flagship leadership.
  • Policy Workgroup is a policy focused sub-committee of the Advisory Group.

Digital Flagship provides regular updates to members of the university community including the Board of Trustees, Student Life, University Senate, Undergraduate Student Government, Curricular Deans, First Year Experience, Faculty partners and more. 

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FAQ's

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How does Digital Flagship support the university's strategic plan?

Digital Flagship supports several pillars of Ohio State’s strategic plan, including teaching and learning and research and creative expression. Additionally, the initiative supports access, affordability and excellence by providing Ohio State undergraduates with integrated learning technology at no cost to students.

Which device will be used in the 2019 technology kit?

We continuously evaluate new products as they roll out from Apple for consideration for deployment to students and faculty/staff as part of Digital Flagship.

We will finalize our recommendation for purchase for the next Digital Flagship eligible cohort of students during the first month of spring semester each year to allow us time for purchasing, prepping, and staging the technology for summer orientation deployments.

How is Digital Flagship funded?

Over the past few years, Ohio State has focused on efficiencies within our service offerings and operational costs. Through these efficiencies, the university has created a central pool of funding to be used for this student-focused initiative. More information can be found on the Office of Business and Finance website.