Education Trends
The modern world is characterized by drastic changes in technology, the constant generation of information which is distributed via the Internet through texts and videos, social networks, and globalization that brings together culturally-diverse areas, all of which drive changes in education.
- Innovative Learning Spaces
- Flipped Classroom
- Gamification
- Competency-based Learning
- Blended Learning
- Flexible and Tailor-made Learning
- Face-to-Face Learning
- Active Learning
- Challenge-based Learning
- Connectivism and Social Learning
- Constructivist Learning Evaluation
- The New Curriculum
- Open Access (practices, resources, repositories)
- Mobile Learning
- Multi-disciplinarity
- Maker Movement
- Others
Technologies for Education
Technologies for Education comprises a number of topics which reflect current trends in education, in addition to offering an insight into future technologies. These include Adaptive Learning, Ubiquitous Learning, Learning Analytics, MOOC’s, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Social Networks and Mobile Learning.
- Collaborative Social Networks
- Adaptive Learning
- Ubiquitous Learning
- Virtual Reality
- Augmented Reality
- MOOC
- Learning Analytics
- Wearable Technologies
- Emerging Technologies
- BYOD
- Others
Educational Innovation Management
Managing educational innovation is a key element in monitoring advances, measuring benefits and managing economic, technological and administrative resources, as well as ensuring the human talent necessary to help drive this innovation.
- Indicators of Educational Innovation
- New Models for Educational Institutions
- Process Transformation
- Training and Development Models
- Innovation Methodologies
- Processes of Innovation in Institutions
- Challenges of Change and Current Problems
- Internationalization
- Intellectual Property and Copyright
- Resources for Innovation
- Digital Addictions and Prevention
- Personal/Academic Resilience
- Bullying /Cyberbullying
- Tutoring Models
- Others
Academic Innovation in Health
The topic of Academic Innovation in Health at the Congress will focus on three major areas: Identifying the advantages of a rounded education through domestic and international learning communities; establishing strategic guidelines in order to incorporate innovation into their education; and, reflecting on the positive points and areas of opportunity which undergraduate education offers. Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE), Evidence-based Assessment, Work-based Assessment and Simulations.
- Inter-Disciplinary Medical Learning
- Medical Research-based Learning
- Technology in Medical Education
- Others (clinical studies, Flipped Classroom, tools for developing clinical judgement)