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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and Approaches".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 March 2023) | Viewed by 6564

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Prof. Dr. Eloy López Meneses

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Department of Education and Social Psychology, Area of School Organization and Didactics, Pablo de Olavide University, 41013 Seville, Spain
Interests: ICT in education; didactics; MOOCs; online and ubiquitous learning
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Dr. Mariana-Daniela González-Zamar

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Department of Education, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain
Interests: teaching and digital learning; learning & innovation spaces; creativity; higher education; art education; sustainability education
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Dr. Miguel Martín-Sánchez

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Department of Education, University of Extremadura, 10071 Caceres, Spain
Interests: theory of education; social education; globalization and citizenship education; history of education; pre-service teachers

Dr. Jorge Cáceres-Muñoz

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Department of Education, University of Extremadura, 10071 Caceres, Spain
Interests: history of education; theory of education; critical thinking in education; teacher training

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Dear colleagues,

After two decades passed through the 21st century, the world faces enormous challenges. The economic crisis, the armed conflict, the environmental problem and, currently, the health crisis caused by COVID-19 are several examples of this. This Special Issue invites the scientific community to investigate and reflect on the consequences and opportunities of this multifaceted scenario. Under the title of " Socio-educational Globalization and Ubiquitous Technologies for the Development of Sustainable Citizenship during the COVID-19 Pandemic", the Special Issue is open to research on the importance of socio-educational globalization and the presence of emerging and ubiquitous technologies for the transformation towards a sustainable and equal citizenship in the period of COVID-19. From a multidisciplinary perspective, the special issue aims to publish high-quality articles that cover all fields that answer questions regarding how the phenomena of cultural globalization affect social, technological and educational fields in times of health crisis and how to promote the path to sustainable citizenship in a globalized world.

Dr. Eloy López Meneses
Dr. Mariana-Daniela González-Zamar
Dr. Miguel Martín-Sánchez
Dr. Jorge Cáceres-Muñoz
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Globalization and citizenship education in the age of COVID-19
Emerging technologies in ubiquitous learning scenarios
Techno-educational challenges in times of pandemic
Educational innovations and active methodologies for sustainable citizenship
Ubiquitous digital ecologies in COVID-19
Sustainable educommunication for social transformation
Ubiquitous Training in health crisis
Sustainable development goals in the context of COVID-19
Research on trends in education in a post-COVID-19 world

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Research Trends in Education in the Context of COVID-19 in Spain: A Systematic Literature Review

by Alicia Sianes-Bautista, Fátima Rosado-Castellano and Cruz Flores-Rodríguez

Sustainability 2022, 14(19), 12235; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912235 - 27 Sep 2022

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COVID-19 has caused many difficulties worldwide, education being one of the most affected areas. This research aims to disseminate the research trends about education in the context of COVID-19 in Spain. Through a systematic review, all research works about this topic in the Spanish context, that were published between 2020–2022 in national and international high-impact journals, have been analysed. After analysing 242 articles, the results show: (a) the keywords that were used most frequently: “learning” (93); “teaching” (53); “higher education” (43); “pandemic” (30); “competence” (29); and “ICT” (22); (b) research trends, which can be categorised as the following topics, among others: “ICT and Digitalisation”; “Teaching, Learning, and Innovative methodologies”; “Educational Policies”; “Sustainability”; “Acquisition and Development of Skills and Competences”; “Health and Welfare”; (c) that the most popular topic in educational research in Spain was “Teaching, Learning, and Innovative Methodologies” (19.30%), followed by “ICT and Digitalisation” (18.04%), whereas articles about educational policies were a minority (2.85%); (d) that in Spanish educational research, articles about formal education have been the most popular (86.36%), followed by articles about non-formal education (7.02%) and articles about informal education (6.62%). Consequently, the scientific community has highlighted the impact of the pandemic on education, especially in relation to “Teaching, Learning, and Innovative Methodologies”. Full article

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Teaching and Learning in Survival Mode: Students and Faculty Perceptions of Distance Education during the COVID-19 Lockdown

by Maram Meccawy, Zilal Meccawy and Aisha Alsobhi

Sustainability 2021, 13(14), 8053; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13148053 - 19 Jul 2021

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(1) This study demonstrates how a Saudi university has responded to the COVID-19 lockdown in order to examine the success factors and highlight any challenges. The main purpose was to determine the perceptions of students and faculty towards emergency online distance learning from a teaching and learning perspective; (2) A cross-faculty study was conducted: two different self-administered questionnaires were developed for students and faculty, respectively. In addition, data was collected from official reports; (3) The results show that students had a more positive perception of e-Learning despite the difficulties that they may have faced, while faculty results leaned slightly towards a negative perception. However, there was not a definite positive or negative perception, depending on the aspect of teaching that was being evaluated. The study also indicated that faculty and students’ gender had no significant effect on their perceptions. Overall results showed that the university performed well in accordance with three of the five pillars of online learning quality framework in terms of student satisfaction, access and scalability. On the other, improvements are needed to achieve better results for faculty satisfaction and learning effectiveness; (4) The findings present a number of suggestions for increasing satisfaction to improve the online learning experience post COVID-19. Full article

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