Digital Education: from hype and disappointment to change

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  • Andras Szűcs

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3311/ope.280

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Powerful and sophisticated ICT is part of everyday life and the world of learning is not an exception. E-learning, open and distance education have been important fields of intellectual excitement and innovative development. The demand for people with new, enhanced skills is growing. Pressure is on all players of the online education community to keep up with new learning, and supply the skills demanded by growing economies.The challenges posed by the new technologies are permanent whilst the role of human, socio-cultural-economic themes are more and more at the cutting edge. Technology is with us everywhere which validates the horizontal-holistic approach for imperative questions of the period. For the transforming education landscape, challenges come increasingly from the structural and policy fields. Social and economic tensions raise the issues of scalability and micro-credentialing. Practitioners are seeking right approaches to provide learning opportunities. Micro, meso and macro aspects open new lenses for considering the problems. Digital credentials and open badges are the new currencies, starting to transform business models in education.The educational framing, from policy level down to the actual learning scenario, allows for various types and variations of of ICT enhanced, collaborative, open, distance education and e-learning. Finding and applying the right mix of information, knowledge and creativity is of primary importance for the educational experience, to bring together the strengths of the past with the challenges of the present and opportunities for the future.The European Union initiatives emphasize solutions to emerging needs, seek to improve competitiveness and professional development; enhance cross-sectoral skills and fuel the engines of social innovation – creativity, entrepreneurship, critical thinking and problem solving.

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Andras Szűcs

Secretary General of EDEN, European Distance and E-Learning Network (UK)

International posts held:

  • EU Commission, Education and Training 2020 Working Group Digital Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment
  • Vice-President, European Lifelong Learning Platform
  • European Economic and Social Committee, Consultative Committe, Industrial Change
  • Director of the EU TEMPUS Higher Education Programme in Hungary
  • Director of the EU PHARE Regional Distance Education Programme,
  • Member of the Advisory Board US Distance Learning Association
  • Member of the Advisory Council European Learning Industry Group
  • Member of Editorial Board of the European Journal of Open and Distance Learning

Holder of Eur-Ing (European Federation of Engineering Associations) and International Engineering Educator Honoris Causa from the International Society for Engineering Education.

 Awarded by Dénes Gábor Memorial Medal (2002) and For the Modernisation of E-Learning in the Russian Federation (2010)

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2019-01-02

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