In recent years, much research has promoted the expansion of e-learning in HE. However, these works show a partial vision of this change, while an overall framework for the online learning innovation processes is absent. They focus mainly on technological aspects, imagining the development of increasingly sophisticated online learning platforms, cognitive processes, or management aspects, such as analytics standards of learning. However, these changes require that Educational Institutions review teaching paradigms, organisation models, leadership styles, management and relations systems, evaluation processes and competencies framework for teaching.

In the current setting, where digitalization of processes is pervasive, Universities should be able to define new languages and ways of communicating and redesign organisational and social spaces, considering the learning and skills life cycle to develop a process in support of professional and personal development projects. The paradigm of the learning society and the changes in the world of work ask Universities to reflect on their role and learning practices in contemporary societies. However, the transformations affecting universities are played out in a multi-actor field that involves many different levels and subjects ranging from the supranational to the local dimension.

The Conference was therefore focused in researching:

• the evolution of Digital Technologies in HE: from the European vision to the university governance;
• how universities organize model changes through digital transformation;
• how universities promote innovation and digital challenge in their processes and learning-teaching activities, or in their teaching and learning processes.

Editorial team

• Gregory Makrides European Association of Erasmus Coordinators (EAEC), makrides.g@eaecnet.com
• Roulla Kyrillou European Association of Erasmus Coordinators (EAEC), kyrillou.r@eaecnet.com
• Maria Mavromoustakou European Association of Erasmus Coordinators (EAEC), mavromoustakou.m@eaecnet.com

ECOLHE (Empower Competences for Onlife Learning in HE) International Conference Proceedings

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