Europe needs new visions for contemporary higher education in the digital age. Digitalisation is not only an additional challenge, but also an effective means to address key challenges for higher education in the 21st century. The White Paper Bologna Digital 2020 on Digitalisation in the European Higher Education Are (EHEA) highlights opportunities and challenges as well as examples of good practice.
This European exchange on digitalisation in higher education discussed priorities, different contexts and future visions and the authors have summarised and elaborated on these insights in a White Paper „Bologna Digital 2020“. To this aim, the publication focuses on prospective developments in six focus areas:
* More Proactive Preparation, Admission and Transition
* Skills for the Digital Age
* New Mobility Patterns: Virtual Exchange and Blended Mobility
* Recognition of (Prior) Learning
* Quality Assurance
* Strategies for Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
For each area, the authors, Florian Rampelt, Dominic Orr and Alexander Knoth, name important opportunities and challenges that digitalisation brings to this specific field of higher education. In addition, each section is complemented by a list of examples of good practice that have been provided by the experts and stakeholder organisations who contributed to discussions.
The White Paper „Bologna Digital 2020“ is intended to set the framework for further fruitful discussions and serves as a basis for the development of a common European vision of higher education in the digital age. A next step will therefore be the publication of a Position Paper in summer 2019 with the aim of gaining support and adoption of the recommendations from a wide range of organisations.
