03-05/11/2021 - The Innovating Higher Education Conference (Italy)

I·HE2021
The Innovating Higher Education Conference
3 – 5 November 2021, Bari (Italy)

The Innovating Higher Education (I·HE) conference focuses on trends and high impact factors in global and European higher education. This year’s theme is: ‘Higher Education in the new normal: the role of online, blended and distance learning’. The COVID-19 crisis has asked many universities to switch to digital education and to re-organize their campus. In surveys of the European Commission, it turned out that in the first (semi-) lockdown period, 95,1% of the universities organized online and distance learning and 82,7% even online exams. All institutions set-up massive support for organizing online lectures, tutorials and videoconferencing with diverse pedagogical approaches. Teaching staff feel this as a disruption, requiring an extreme workload to adapt to the situation. Students started to manifest for the right of having ‘quality education’. Watching a video or following a lesson via zoom is no longer felt as a solution as it was in the first wave. To support high quality, inclusive education, I·HE2021 will bring together experts from the world of online, blended and distance learning who will share their good practices for Higher Education in the ´New Normal´.