Special issue “Towards a higher education of the future : transformational roles of edge intelligence”

Abstract

Higher Education of the Future (HEF) is anticipated to be a scalable educational framework that is driven by new digital learning architectures and platforms, as well as collaborative learning systems, that are able to completely guarantee self-paced, customizable, personalized and flexible teaching/learning experiences. The HEF concept strongly points toward a “learning from everywhere” model. The need for HEF is motivated, among other things, by the fact that most state-of-the-art higher education system models currently being used for driving and transitioning higher education are structurally, socially, and technologically incapacitated to meet the key requirements towards delivering a foreseeable smart, real-time intelligence driven HEF. [excerpt]