With the rapid development of digital technology, the teaching mode of English courses in colleges and universities is facing profound changes and challenges. This paper takes the significance of the reform of English course teaching in colleges and universities in the digital era as the starting point and aims at the problems existing in the teaching concept, digital teaching infrastructure, and digital literacy of the teaching staff in the current construction of English courses in colleges and universities. It proposes strategies such as changing teaching thinking, strengthening infrastructure construction and resource integration, and improving the digital ability of the teaching staff, which provides some references for promoting the modernization transformation of English course teaching in colleges and universities in China.