About this Research Topic
In the future education horizon, complexity and sustainable development represent major challenges for society in search of new solutions, to face critical problems from higher education and lifelong learning. Today, more than ever, it is essential to enhance research processes, promote innovation and educational strategies for the development of entrepreneurial skills, based on critical, scientific, and systemic thinking.
The challenge will be to form citizens with critical, scientific, systemic, entrepreneurial thinking and committed to sustainable development (United Nations, 2015), but that also are emotionally intelligent, empathic, and cooperative. Complex thinking is a meta-competence with a high potential to contribute to future education where students involve critical, creative processes or divergent reasoning, with scientific, systemic, creative, and critical thinking subcompetencies (Ramírez-Montoya et al., 2022a; 2022b).
This Research Topic aims to invite the sharing to expand knowledge and practices in the framework of the future of education, with original research articles and review articles, theoretical cases, methodological and applied works on digital education, lifelong learning, neuroeducation, open education, open innovation, open science, complexity, sustainability, interdisciplinarity, social impact, among others.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Innovations and best practices in training and research with social impact: cocreation, inclusive education, knowledge-based challenges, lifelong learning, digital education, educational technology, educational entrepreneurship models and educational innovation in higher education.
Complexity and new knowledge based on interdisciplinary research studies: complex thinking, interdisciplinary scenarios, instruments for complexity, and intersectoral research (government, business, academia, society), as developmental drivers for reasoning competencies for complexity
New avenues for open education in the framework of sustainability: open resources, open practices and open innovation in support of sustainable development goals.
Interdisciplinary research for the future of education: network building, trends in higher education, internationalization and cultural aspects of online learning
Open Science and non-traditional methodologies, technologies and facilities: artificial intelligence, open systems, simulation, robotic, network analysis, decision-making laboratories, open innovation labs, virtual labs, cyber-physicals labs, remote labs, computer-supported collaborative learning, intelligent tutoring, mentoring systems, learning analytics and educational data mining.
The challenge will be to form citizens with critical, scientific, systemic, entrepreneurial thinking and committed to sustainable development (United Nations, 2015), but that also are emotionally intelligent, empathic, and cooperative. Complex thinking is a meta-competence with a high potential to contribute to future education where students involve critical, creative processes or divergent reasoning, with scientific, systemic, creative, and critical thinking subcompetencies (Ramírez-Montoya et al., 2022a; 2022b).
This Research Topic aims to invite the sharing to expand knowledge and practices in the framework of the future of education, with original research articles and review articles, theoretical cases, methodological and applied works on digital education, lifelong learning, neuroeducation, open education, open innovation, open science, complexity, sustainability, interdisciplinarity, social impact, among others.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Innovations and best practices in training and research with social impact: cocreation, inclusive education, knowledge-based challenges, lifelong learning, digital education, educational technology, educational entrepreneurship models and educational innovation in higher education.
Complexity and new knowledge based on interdisciplinary research studies: complex thinking, interdisciplinary scenarios, instruments for complexity, and intersectoral research (government, business, academia, society), as developmental drivers for reasoning competencies for complexity
New avenues for open education in the framework of sustainability: open resources, open practices and open innovation in support of sustainable development goals.
Interdisciplinary research for the future of education: network building, trends in higher education, internationalization and cultural aspects of online learning
Open Science and non-traditional methodologies, technologies and facilities: artificial intelligence, open systems, simulation, robotic, network analysis, decision-making laboratories, open innovation labs, virtual labs, cyber-physicals labs, remote labs, computer-supported collaborative learning, intelligent tutoring, mentoring systems, learning analytics and educational data mining.
Keywords: Innovation, Complexity, Sustainability, interdisciplinary research, open science
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