The Manifesto for Teaching Online and the Complexities of Digital Education

Author(s):  
Peter Evans
Author(s):  
Melissa Laufer ◽  
Anne Leiser ◽  
Bronwen Deacon ◽  
Paola Perrin de Brichambaut ◽  
Benedikt Fecher ◽  
...  

AbstractThe edtech community has promoted claims that digital education enhances access, learning, and collaboration. The COVID-19 pandemic tested these claims like never before, as higher education systems seemingly overnight had to move teaching online. Through a sequential mixed-method approach, we investigated how 85 higher education leaders in 24 countries experienced this rapid digital transformation. Through their experiences, we identified the multiple and overlapping factors that contribute to an institution’s ability to realize the potential of digital education, in terms of access, learning and collaboration, whilst highlighting deeply rooted inequalities at the individual, institutional and system level. Drawing on these empirics, we put forth recommendations for closing the digital divides and pathways forward. Higher education leaders are uniquely positioned to move beyond the emergency adoption of online learning towards inclusive, long-term visions for digital education, which emphasize collaboration over individual gain.


Author(s):  
Michele Aurelio ◽  
Stefania Cecchi ◽  
Mirca Montanari ◽  
Andrea Primavera

Taking into consideration the complexity of the new, heterogeneous, and different training needs currently present in the classrooms, the school is called to respond them in an effective and concrete way through inclusive educational approaches centered on the students, none excluded. On this basis, the authors, supporting the importance of technology in innovative teaching, propose the design and construction of an intelligent white stick through an inclusive cooperative methodology. The presented device, presented in this paper, is inspired by an open and collaborative teaching, enhancing a responsible digital education, accepting the training needs of all the students present in the classroom, specifically the blind student, and the recognition of the diversity in view of the reduction of disability.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1098 (3) ◽  
pp. 032081
Author(s):  
S Suherman ◽  
D R Darman ◽  
F C Wibowo ◽  
Y Gumala ◽  
W A Sugiyarto ◽  
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