Towards Sustainable Development Goals: Integrating Technologies into Education in the Digital Era: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable development is the organizing principle of global development and concerns the well-being of people and the planet. In September 2015, all member States of the United Nations adopted Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which sets out the global Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that everyone on the planet, now and in the future, can live a sustainable, peaceful, prosperous and equitable life. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a universal agenda, marking the first time in human history that all countries have agreed on a common set of time-bound goals for sustainable development. The Transforming Education Summit held at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 19 September 2022 made it clear that education must promote sustainable development, calling on countries to fully commit to the vision of ESD and the goals of the Green Education Partnership.

Technology has a long history of impacting the education, going back to the early 19th century with the blackboard, a potent visualization and organizational tool. Two hundred years later, education is undergoing rapid innovation, driven this time by digital technology. Technology is impacting education today and is expected to do so in the future. Big data and artificial intelligence (AI), for example, are helping educators improve their efficiency and learning outcomes. Digital technologies also offer unprecedented opportunities for the sustainable development of education and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals to complement, enrich and transform education to meet the new challenges facing humanity. Technology is also a key tool for promoting equitable and inclusive access to education, bridging the learning divide, opening up new perspectives for teachers and their profession, enhancing the quality and meaning of learning, and improving educational administration and governance.

We encourage researchers from different countries to share their insights and research findings on integrating technology into education for sustainable development. It is expected that the academic discussions in this Special Issue will not only provide research-based knowledge to support education and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in these countries but will also address broader global challenges on the topic.

We welcome papers that contribute to this discussion from a theoretical, methodological, or empirical perspective. These papers may be of interest to educational researchers, policy makers, administrators, and professionals. This perspective may even be crucial for the entire SDG approach. Specifically, we invite researchers to contribute in the following areas:

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

(1) The impact of students’ digital competencies on the outcomes of various forms of technology-enhanced learning;

(2) The applications and integration of technologies (e.g., social media, gamification, metaverse, augmented and virtual reality, and mobile apps) in the process of learning and teaching

(3) Equity and inclusion concerns of integration of technologies in learning and teaching;

• Teachers’ digital competences and readiness to integrate technologies into teaching;
• The application and integration of learning technologies to develop 21^st century skills (e.g., critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving);
• Adaptivity and personalization issues involved in integrating learning technologies into learning and teaching

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Kun Dai
Dr. Jiani Ma
Dr. Feifei Han
Guest Editors

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• education
• sustainable development
• technology
• digital era

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