New Challenges of E-Learning and Digital Education

Dear Colleagues,

The SARS-COV-2 pandemic during 2020 has shocked digital education and modified educational behaviors in a way that was unthinkable by the end of 2019, provoking deep changes in training and education that we are just beginning to notice.  Fortunately, the digital education industry and research institutions have faced this global disaster from a mature position due to the solid period of development of e-learning research and industry since 2000.  In this sense, we have witnessed a deep change in social relations and human interactions that have come to reshape digital education, as the new normal in education has catalyzed the usually slow transfer process from research to industry.

As a consequence, there is a need to interconnect new educational technologies to provide a more engaging educational experience in this new digital interaction model. On one hand, we need better student knowledge to provide tailored contents, assessment and remote tools in the cloud. Personalized learning, educational data mining and IA in education plays an important role, as long as more immersive tools and devices for education. On the other hand, social models have changed our disposition to use existing tools to provide new educational models.

The aim of this Special Issue is to collect these most recent innovations in the field of IT-based learning and educational technologies in this new frontier of digital education and to show how research has been applied to new digital education. We would like to gather researchers to discuss new ideas, research questions, recent results, and especially current and future challenges in digital education.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Learning environments and remote lectures;
• Personalized e-learning;
• E-learning standards and authoring tools;
• Educational modelling languages;
• Learning objects;
• Devices for learning;
• Interactive ebooks in education;
• Educational games;
• Online laboratories for education;
• Virtual and augmented reality;
• E-learning tools and automatic assessment;
• Adaptive and intelligent educational systems;
• Educational data mining;
• Learning analytics.

Dr. Miguel Rodríguez Artacho
Guest Editor

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