Opinion

Agentic and Equitable Educational Development For a Potential Postplagiarism Era

By Maha Bali, American University in Cairo This is a slightly updated and paraphrased version from an earlier version on Maha Bali’s blog: https://blog.mahabali.me/educational-technology-2/are-we-approaching-a-postplagiarism-era/ Many of us in the field of education have been contemplating the potential impact of the latest Artificial Intelligence technologies on the future of education. How we teach, how our students …

Agentic and Equitable Educational Development For a Potential Postplagiarism Era Read More »

The Need To Investigate Complex Trajectories

By Helena Troiano Gomà (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) A Special Issue of the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education entitled “In person, hybrid and online higher education: supporting students’ complex trajectories” is currently underway and is aimed at understanding the complex trajectories ofstudents in higher education. In particular, the focus is on the …

The Need To Investigate Complex Trajectories Read More »

How useful of OER as perceived by students, before and after the pandemic?

By Simon K.S. Cheung, Hong Kong Metropolitan University Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, teaching and learning practices have undergone various degrees of transformation to live with different social distancing requirements so caused. Not only in teaching strategies, instructional and content design, there are also changes in learning styles and habits, such as on the …

How useful of OER as perceived by students, before and after the pandemic? Read More »

The Need For Scientific Journals to Contribute to Gender Equality

By Elsa Corominas (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) “Gender equality” is understood to be the equality of rights, responsibilities and opportunities of women and men and girls and boys, and there is a “gender gap” when in any area there are systematic inequalities between women and men in terms of their levels of participation, access, rights, …

The Need For Scientific Journals to Contribute to Gender Equality Read More »

Sustainable development as universities’ social responsibility. Ideas for development

By Martha Burkle In current discussions, the idea of promoting a sustainable university has become crucial in the development of policies that regulate students’ learning, the growth of the university itself, and its impact on the community in which it is inserted (Leal, 2019; Verhulst & Lambrechts, 2015; Nicolescu, 2018). UNESCO principles of development for the …

Sustainable development as universities’ social responsibility. Ideas for development Read More »

Collaboration and clustering in online learning – some thoughts on Han and Ellis (2021)

By Conchúr Mac Lochlainn The word ‘collaboration’ is everywhere, and on everyone’s mind, as digital educators have grappled with new modalities of learning, during the COVID-19 pivot. Concerns over isolation, and its effects on wellbeing (Filho et al., 2021), have been well-documented, and the importance of collaborative learning as a means of alleviating this isolation …

Collaboration and clustering in online learning – some thoughts on Han and Ellis (2021) Read More »

When the critical perspective is not enough

By Juliana E. Raffaghelli When our Special Section “Towards a critical perspective on data literacy in higher education. Emerging practices and challenges” was accepted by ETHE in 2019, an advanced debate on the impact of datafication was already in place. Datafication is that particular digital technologies feature we were unaware of, namely, users’ data capture …

When the critical perspective is not enough Read More »

Musings on Blended Learning Research

By Charles Graham, Chuck Dziuban, Norm Vaughan. The aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting widespread adoption of blended learning has necessitated a rapid and radical rethinking of the teaching-learning transaction. The pandemic resulted in a forced test of the potential of blended learning. The possibilities and constraints associated with this approach to learning …

Musings on Blended Learning Research Read More »