This document outlines Michael Brown's presentation on the rhetoric-reality gap in digital learning and discusses three initiatives at Dublin City University to help close that gap: DCU Fuse, DCU Connected, and DCU Learning Futures. It provides details on each initiative and references statistics on the growth of online learning and skills markets to emphasize the importance of innovation in this area. The presentation concludes by encouraging universities to understand their strategic drivers and foster an ecology of innovation to infuse digital approaches rather than just bolting them on.