The 2025 Annual Lecture

The 2025 Annual Lecture

“Moving Forward to New Educational Realities in the Digital Era”

Professor Margaret J. Cox, OBE, FKC

19th February 2025

The Council Room, King’s Building, King’s College London, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS

  • Registration & Buffet: 13:30 – 14:15
  • Annual Education Lecture: 14:15 – 15:15
  • NCUP AGM (Members only): 15:30 – 16:30

SUMMARY

Moving forward to new educational realities in the digital era” was the theme of the last EdusummIT2023 which brings together leading international researchers, practitioners and key policy makers every two years to review the knowledge and practices of IT in Education across the world in order to keep countries up to date on the role, scope and impact of IT in Education. This lecture is a reflection on the immediate shift to and adaptation of online technology during COVID-19 since March 2020 and an analysis of the way this has affected education and training. It draws on the decades of research outcomes and practical experiences before this radical change.

Before COVID-19, researchers, practitioners and policy makers have been working for decades to integrate technology in education and training with different rates of successes. There were new ways that educational communities took on the pandemic challenge around the world and questions such as “Where do we go from here?”, “In what ways do we go back to prior practices?”, and “In what ways do we change and evolve?” emerging. In this era of rapid technological advancement, lessons which can be learnt will be discussed drawing on previous successes, barriers, enablers to help us enhance and advance education and training and embrace new educational realities.

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