Podcast

Beyond the Technology: Digifest 2025 – Esports – the digital revolution in education

Explore how Esports is reshaping classrooms, making lessons more engaging, interactive, effective and how this is boosting student motivation, improving retention and enhancing digital skills.

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This podcast, recorded live at Digifest 2025, will support your understanding and implementation of Esports curriculum through British Esports' endorsed programmes and explains why you should join this digital revolution in education. Guests Tom Dore and Andy Miah explain the growing global phenomenon of the Esports industry, how this coincides with Esports in education and how you can join the hundreds of schools and colleges that are already part of this revolution through qualifications with Leadership Skills Foundation, Pearson and through their participation in the British Esports Student Champs.

How can Esports transform your digital strategy and innovate your pedagogical approach and curriculum design to support the future workforce, to address skills gaps and engage a tech-agile, digital generation of young people that are in our classrooms?

If you haven't developed an Esports curriculum offer yet, why not?

Watch a video version of the podcast on YouTube.

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Episode guests

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Tom Dore
Vice president of the British Esports Federation
Andy Miah headshot
Andy Miah
Professor at the University of Salford

Episode host

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Iwan Lehnert
Internal communications officer

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