Online, Immersive and Distributed Learning for Sustainable Development

Dear Colleagues,

In the era of digitalization of education, creating new online, immersive and distributed learning systems is necessary for the successful involvement of Gen Y and Gen Z in the educational process. Teaching methods should meet the expectations of young people and involve them in the educational environment. Online, immersive and distributed learning approaches are particularly crucial during pandemics and military conflicts.

Students, like other young people, are addicted to their gadgets. Millennials spend an average of 2.5 hours on social media per day; according to other sources, teenagers spend, on average, 9 hours of their day on entertainment media and tweens spend 9 hours a day with digital technology. Thus, the effective self-learning of students is also connected with gadgets. It is necessary to "immerse" students in an educational environment that suits their comfort zone. Although acquiring new skills is associated with leaving the comfort zone, its first step is precisely in line with young people’s gadgets. Properly evaluated and categorized online, immersive, distributed tools and techniques will complement educators' "toolboxes" with a set of skills and approaches to education that foster academic integrity and quality.

In this context, this Special Issue, entitled "Online, Immersive and Distributed Learning for Sustainable Development", welcomes research papers on current and future innovations in education that address one or more of the following keywords:

• Online learning: methods, approaches and systems.
• Immersive learning: evaluation of the various tools' effectiveness.
• Distributed learning: successful models for access to educational content "anytime, anywhere".
• Pedagogical innovations in online, immersive and distributed learning: how to involve Gen Y and Gen Z in the educational process?
• Collaborative creation of education scenarios in the immersive environment: best practices.
• Quality of education and academic integrity in online, immersive and distributed learning.
• Successful university cases in the implementation of online, immersive and distributed learning systems.

Other topics in the context of the special are also welcome.

Dr. Artem Artyukhov
Prof. Dr. Oleksandr Dluhopolskyi
Guest Editors

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