Innovation and Challenges in Teaching and Learning Applied Sciences

Dear Colleagues,

The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a tumultuous time to be living in now, but also a severe challenge for the future. Our educational systems had to bear considerable pressure to ensure proper functionality. However, if, on the one hand, we are witnessing a rapid process of digital transformation by implementing a range of remote teaching, learning, and assessment approaches, on the other hand, we are facing the toll of misinformation in terms of the public’s understanding of science. We, as scientists, need to rethink the root causes of the spreading of unscientific, poorly documented, and anecdotal argumentations by starting to innovate teaching and learning methodologies and technologies at all educational levels.
Based on these considerations, this Special Issue of Education Sciences aims at collecting research findings, ideas, and perspectives on the role of the applied sciences in education and training during this particular period. It seeks to explore the main challenges, opportunities, and innovations in teaching and learning methodologies and technologies at all educational levels.

Recommended topics for the Special Issue include but are not restricted to the following:

• Gamification, game-based, and simulation-based learning;
• Digital technologies as tools for applied sciences education research;
• The evolution of applied science curricula;
• Reports of teaching experiments;
• Applied sciences and language integrated learning;
• Applied sciences learning strategies;
• Students’ and teachers’ prior skills and level of readiness to adopt online teaching and learning methods;
• Digital technology and language as barriers to learning;
• Pedagogical approaches and strategies for increasing access and promoting accessible and inclusive education and training of applied sciences.
• Emerging and innovative teaching and learning technologies;
• Laboratories and remote laboratories;
• Transition from traditional to ICT-enhanced learning environments at all educational levels;
• Applied sciences in elementary curricula;
• Connecting applied sciences and science education;
• Teaching units as the integrating core of science education
• Life-long learning.

As Guest Editors, we would like to kindly invite you to contribute with a research paper or a review on any
topic related to this Special Issue.

Dr. Giuseppe Paladini
Dr. Sebastiano Ettore Spoto
Prof. Dr. Francesco Caridi
Guest Editors

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