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.
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?
- Sign up for Digifest 2026 updates
- Learn more about the British Esports Federation
- Visit the Media City Immersive Technologies Innovation Hub website
- Subscribe to Headlines - our newsletter which has all the latest edtech news, guidance and events tailored to you
Episode guests, hosts and producers
Episode guests
Tom Dore
Vice president of the British Esports Federation
Andy Miah
Professor at the University of Salford
Episode host
Iwan Lehnert
Internal communications officer
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Get in touch
If you want to come on the show, or have any questions, you can get in touch with us by emailing podcast@jisc.ac.uk