ECOLHE Project at the Second International Conference of the journal Scuola Democratica.

On Friday 4 June 2021, the research group of the Erasmus + ECOLHE project conducted the panel Rethinking Higher Education at the time of Covid: challenges, new perspectives, critical issues hosted within the Second International Conference of the journal Scuola Democratica.

The panel’s contributions reflected on the main issues of the ECOLHE project with the aim to explore the role of Universities and teaching-learning practices in contemporary society. In this regard the track developed an interdisciplinary discussion on the changes in universities already underway and accelerated by the covid epidemic, with respect to:

new training model to respond to new knowledge and skills demands, in a context of a universal entitlement to lifelong learning;
the promotion of online quality relationships and e-learning standards;
the transformation of university in a complex organization, characterized by a more and more complex governance systems and the transformation of the internal and external management and power structure of roles;
the transformation of the figure of the university teacher and researcher accompanied by the need to rethink both the professional development system and that of insertion into the role;
the challenges caused by the digital revolution and the general demand for innovative learning methods and tools on the part of an audience of students that has changed significantly compared to the past;
the development of best practices in training and skills development for “online” learning in higher education (HE), according to the new experience of a hyperconnected reality (Floridi, 2014).

Below you can download the programme and the speeches made during the two sessions of the panel

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