CYCU has long been committed to digital teaching innovation and cross-university collaboration. On December 16–17, CYCU participated in the “2025 ELOE International Conference on Digital Learning & Open Education Forum” organized by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education in Taipei. With outstanding achievements in alliance leadership and governance, teaching and research practices, and digital course quality management, CYCU received multiple prestigious awards, demonstrating its sustained excellence and influence in pioneering digital learning and fostering inter-university collaboration.
Centered on CYCU, the “Digital Empowerment and Lifelong Learning Alliance” has, over the past four years, focused on strengthening digital literacy among teachers and students, enhancing alliance-based curriculum development, and promoting digital learning sharing. Partnering with fellow U9 universities — Providence University, Fu Jen Catholic University, Chinese Culture University, and Tunghai University — the alliance has established an operational model featuring CYCU as the leading institution coordinating collaborative efforts. Through a systematic collaborative mechanism, member universities jointly undertake key initiatives including digital course design, faculty development, curriculum evaluation, and promotion. This structure ensures steady progress and continuous achievement accumulation in cross-institutional cooperation.
CYCU has established an alliance-wide seed teacher selection mechanism and a structured digital teacher training framework, cultivating foundational, advanced, and elite digital teachers across three core competency areas: technology application, learning assessment, and teaching strategies. Through systematic training, teaching practice, and course performance review, exemplary seed teachers are selected to lead course co-development and share best practices across the alliance, thereby strengthening teaching implementation and improving instructional quality. These mechanisms and achievements have been highly recognized at the 2025 ELOE Conference in areas such as leadership and governance, benchmark courses, teaching research, and learning analytics.
At this year’s conference, CYCU received comprehensive recognition and multiple major awards: the Outstanding Leadership Award (awarded to Prof. Chih-Hao Lin, Chief Digital Officer of CYCU), the Best SIG Teaching Case Award for innovative digital learning practices integrating generative AI and real-time feedback tools, the Best Paper Award for research on the design and effectiveness of generative AI–enhanced digital learning platforms, and dual honors of Best Interactive Management and Best Course Promotion for its workplace English MOOC.
CYCU stated that the alliance’s achievements over the past four years are reflected not only in the number of awards received, but more importantly in the establishment of a sustainable operational framework. This framework integrates faculty professional development, course development, learning support, and data-driven feedback to create a positive cycle of quality enhancement, outcome dissemination, and continuous improvement. It enables cross-university collaboration to move from project-based initiatives to institutionalized practice, continuously expanding its influence on teaching and learning both within and beyond the university.
Looking ahead, CYCU will continue to play the leading role in deepening cross-university collaboration and resource sharing, further advancing the application of AI and learning analytics in teaching to meet the needs of digital transformation in higher education and lifelong lifelong learning.
