To design digital online courses for Refugee and Displaced Persons, the first step is not to learn how to record low-data videos or how to keep your students’ attention through active learning quizzes. The first step is to become familiar with your students’ context. The RDP context is often unfamiliar to many higher education teachers, but it is critical to gain insight into this world to create life-changing courses and programmes for these students. This course is the first in our series of four AHEEN RDP Pathways Refugee Ready Digital Teaching courses. Like the other courses it is about a process of transformation of you as a person.