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Doha, Qatar:For the third consecutive year, Qatar National Library has hosted the Libraries Lead Forum 2024, with the latest edition focusing on AI an...

By Jo Tondeur and Sarah Howard, Published on 10/31/23

The education system in Europe in the 21st century has undergone significant changes to adapt to the challenges and demands of the modern era.  Caena & Redecker defined in “Aligning teacher competence frameworks to 21st...

Welcome to this special issue, focussing on teachers’ digital competencies in Higher Education. The articles in this special issue explore the question of how digital competencies in higher education are conceptualized after the Great Online Transition, during and after the pandemic. A few of the topics addressed in the special issue are: new competency frameworks, the issue of disciplines and artificial intelligence and looks into the future of higher education learning and teaching. In this ...

The rapid development of high technology and the Internet has made online learning increasingly popular, especially in the last few years when the COVID-19 pandemic appeared and spread worldwide. However, implementing online English courses in the pre-COVID-19 period was not prevalent; and only a few courses utilized new technologies to teach the English language online in universities and colleges in Viet Nam (Pham, 2020). This paper investigates 270 Vietnamese tertiary students' digital c...

The European cloud project Gaia-X launched in 2019 with great fanfare. However, for Volker Pfirsching, partner at Arthur D. Little, the project is so far more an idea than a concrete plan.

The 4th annual international Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) conference was held on February 3, 2022, at EHL Hospitality Business School in Lausanne and online. After almost two years of "everything online", the topic for the conference was “The Human Touch: Engagement and Creativity through SoTL”. While the expectations had been to have humans engaging with other humans in person, the sanitary conditions (again) affected our plan. Thus, this conference was offered in a HyFlex ma...

About Mulshi Institute of Business Management  Mulshi Group of Institutes aims to provide quality education to the torchbearers of the future. Founded in 2009, with flagship institutes, Mulshi Institute of Management and Mulshi Institute of Retail Management, Mulshi strives for excellence at every step. These institutes offer a two-year full-time residential Postgraduate Diploma in Management

Romanians could go up in the digitization ranking, and the fundamental solution is represented by the certified digital competence for eliminating...

This study examines, using a cross-sectional approach, the digital competence of academic teachers at a time when teaching shifted to digital distance learning at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers from different academic fields at a large multidisciplinary Finnish university (N=265) responded to a questionnaire about the purposes for which they use digital tools in teaching, how they evaluated their competence at distance teaching during the lockdown of March-May 2020 and their belief...