Innovations and Challenges of Higher Education Institutions in the Post-COVID-19 Era
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Multimedia".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2024 | Viewed by 14215
Special Issue Editors
Interests: virtualization technology; assessment; e-Learning; cloud computing; computer networks; tools learning and gamification
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Interests: virtualization technology; assessment; e-Learning; cloud computing; computer networks; tools learning and gamification
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Interests: open and distance education; e-learning pedagogy; ethics; quality assurance
Interests: MOOC; e-learning; learning analytics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led to a radical transformation in the global education system. Most Higher Education Institutions became, essentially, online teaching and learning centers, which prompted an important step forward in the digitization of training processes, requiring more and better tools to motivate students during the learning process. This fact has undoubtedly favored the development and improvement of online teaching processes.
This process of change had to take place in a short period of time, and as a result methodologies and learning tools were adapted. Many of the changes experienced in the educational system during the pandemic have been disappearing more recently. However, other changes are here to stay, and this, combined with the new behavior of students and professors in face-to-face classes, the maintenance of teleworking and the change of social priorities of professors and students, is establishing a new educational framework in Higher Education Institutions.
Therefore, once these institutions resume their usual learning programs and teaching methodologies, they begin to face new challenges. Perhaps one of the most interesting challenges in Higher Education Institutions is hybrid learning. The goal is to combine the best of face-to-face and online teaching, to offer new quality curricula. However, the acquisition of digital skills by teaching teams is essential. For this reason, the design and definition of learning plans for professors is another challenge that institutions have to face. We must not forget the technological challenge, and must offer support and solutions to the demands of students and professors. Currently, institutions have technological ecosystems that allow them to respond to such demands.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions that present experience of dealing with such challenges or identifying new ones. Subjects covered in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Strategies for hybrid learning;
- Acquisition of digital skills by students and professors;
- E-learning tools and technologies;
- Digital technologies and innovation;
- Gamification and motivation tools for students;
- Evaluation and assessment processes;
- Artificial intelligence applied to the learning processes;
- Machine learning applied to training and learning processes;
- Accessibility and inclusive learning;
- Virtual and remote labs;
- X-Reality and immersive learning environments;
- Learning spaces for STEM Education in Higher Education;
- Microcredentials and Blockchain;
- MOOCs;
- Digital transformation;
- Learning analytics for predicting the evolution of the students' learning processes;
- Behavior of professors and/or students regarding the new educational paradigm.
Dr. Roberto Barchino
Dr. José Amelio Medina-Merodio
Dr. Antonio Moreira Teixeira
Dr. Miguel Morales
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hybrid learning environments
- machine learning
- e-learning
- learning analytics
- AI
