Post-COVID-19 Education for a Sustainable Future: Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Trends
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and Approaches".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2022) | Viewed by 66952
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Interests: smart energy management systems; machine learning; attractiveness of higher education
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Interests: signal and image processing; machine/deep learning; medical imaging; attractiveness of higher education
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The COVID-19 pandemic, which the world has been experiencing in full force since late 2019, has significant health, economic, financial, social, cultural, environmental, political, and also educational implications. The pandemic has also challenged the suitability, viability and sustainability of university operating models, practices and systems. If they are to survive and thrive after the pandemic, universities must reassess and adapt their strategies. It is important to seize the moment to be innovative, proactive and adapt to a post-COVID-19 world; higher education must rethink its future and take steps to do so.
This Special Issue aims to provide concrete answers to today’s major challenges to accelerate education towards a sustainable future. The first challenge concerns the training of education professionals in digital culture. The “teacher factor” appears to be one of the most important factors for the success of students, who must be able to adapt throughout their lives to a constantly changing environment. The second challenge is the success of all, regardless of social origin. The third challenge concerns digital inclusion, which is expressed in terms of hardware (access to equipment and especially to networks), usage (use of tools and acquisition of good practices) and understanding (proper use of the systems used and familiarization with artificial intelligence), which is necessary for mastering usage and for the need to upgrade equipment.
“Post-COVID-19 Education for a Sustainable Future: Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Trends” will be an opportunity to both support active and engaged education, and build the post-COVID-19 educational world.
Dr. Sébastien Jacques
Prof. Dr. Abdeldjalil OUAHABI
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- educational practices with information and communications technology (ICT)
- online learning
- digital teaching
- sustainability strategy
- machine/deep learning
- augmented reality technology
- face recognition
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