Imagine the Future of Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Higher Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 22439
Special Issue Editors
Interests: blended educational models; learning styles; effective design of online and blended learning experiences
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The impact of education on our lives in shaping beliefs, intentions, behaviors and, in general, our understanding of social phenomena is very evident. Consequently, the quality of educational processes must be at its best, anytime and in any context. As stated by sustainable development goal number four, the concept of quality of education relates to the capacity of education to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. Within that context, every educational system plays a pivotal role. This Special Issue intends to focus on the higher education (HE) level. Many changes have occurred at this level, particularly in the last three years. Some of these changes have strongly facilitated the “openness to explore new ways to make education happen” both in HE and at individuals’ levels as well. This exploration stage represents a kind of unique opportunity for widely rethinking what our higher education will look like in the near future. This cannot be missed. There are many drivers and variables to consider when rethinking the entire educational system, e.g., discussing how to lead and drive learning and teaching innovations within higher education institutions, redefining educational models, getting ready for embracing the continuous technological evolution, fostering innovations, the lifelong learning process of faculty and staff members and the role of students’ learning styles and approaches.
Thus, this Special Issue intends to bring together a set of high-quality contributions to figure out the future of higher education through different lenses of analysis: pedagogical, innovation management, technological and organizational. We would like to include perspectives from multiple stakeholders, such as students, faculty members, staff and administrators of HEIs, policy makers, national and international educational agencies and institutions.
We encourage scholars to submit both qualitative and quantitative contributions based on research projects already completed or still in progress. Interdisciplinarity is more than welcome.
Given the above, this Special Issue welcomes articles examining topics such as, although not exclusively:
- Facing the intergenerational learning differences of HE students;
- Developing new skills for the job market and better integrating with the job market players;
- Motivating and facilitating the continuous development process of faculty members;
- Designing high-value educational experiences;
- Fostering innovations within, and outside, higher education institutions;
- Fostering partnerships with multiple stakeholders outside HE institutions to develop richer educational experiences
- Sharing best practices oriented towards the creation of new learning contexts and environments;
- Measuring the impact of learning experiences at different levels;
- Assessing the effectiveness of different learning models and methods for different targets.
Prof. Dr. Leonardo Caporarello
Dr. Beatrice Manzoni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- future of education
- innovative learning
- new educational models
- higher education institutions
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