Ensuring Quality Education and Good Learning Environments for Students

Dear Colleagues,

Today, new technologies bring a changing panorama that forces us to constantly update our knowledge. For this reason, quality education is necessary in all areas of knowledge and at all educational levels. The quality of our educational systems and the questions raised by the review of whether our educational institutions offer quality education or not are some of the main reasons why quality education is a topic that, in recent years, has captured the interest of governments, researchers and lecturers, among others. This collection brings together different socioeducational actors in their concerns and commitments to higher education, in order to achieve the aim of providing people with the competencies to adapt to a changing and competitive world in which the individual needs to be in lifelong learning and education must assure sustainable development goals, such as democracy, justice and equality. All of this provides us with a scenario for reflection and research on fundamental questions such as, how to prevent school absenteeism, how to deal with early school leaving, how to prevent or alleviate the phenomenon of dropping out in higher education, etc. In other words, can we assume that student failure is partly due to the failure of our educational systems? Are we educating self-regulated, critical, learning-motivated, competent students? These and other questions lead us to work in search of measures to improve the quality of our educational systems by proposing strategies and developing tools to improve the lecturing–learning processes in our classrooms. Likewise, new technologies—as tools to support learning—and methodologies based on artificial intelligence are increasingly used to achieve quality in higher education.

Dr. Ana B. Bernardo
Dr. Adrián Castro-López
Prof. Dr. Leandro Almeida
Prof. Dr. Sílvia F. Rivas
Collection Editors

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