The Digital Transformation of European Higher Education

Stefania Capogna is an Associate Professor at Link Campus University, Rome, Italy, as well as the founder and Scientific Director of the Digital Technologies Education & Society Research Centre at Link Campus University, and the academic Journal Quaderni di Comunità. She is a regular consultant for the Italian National Agency for University Evaluation and Research (ANVUR). Capogna's research focuses on education systems, public policies, and organizational development, also concerning digital technologies.

Francesca Greco is a tenure track Assistant Professor at the Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Society, University of Udine, Italy, where she teaches public relations theories and techniques, as well as communication advertising and new media. Greco is a member of the international scienfic board of JADT (Journée International d'Analyse Textuelle) and an expert in digital media communication, cultural processes, big data, computational sociology, and natural language processing. She developed a socio-cultural profiling method, emotional text mining, which won awards in Italy and France.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part 1: ECOLHE: the Main Project Results.- Chapter 2. Building the EHEA Through the "translation" Perspective.- Chapter 3. Digital Transformation in Europe.- Chapter 4. Digital Development Culture in Europe.- Chapter 5. Students' Perspective of Digital Technologies in Higher Education.- Chapter 6. Online Training Model for Improving Teachers in He: Challenges, Criticalities, Possibilities.- Chapter 7. Gamification as a Strategy to Increase Student Engagement in Higher Education: Exploring Teachers' Perspectives.- Chapter 8. The Symbiotic Learning Paradigm (SLP): Teacher Competencies, Methods & Approaches in Higher Education.- Chapter 9. Conclusion of the Project Findings.- Part 2: Recommendation and Guidelines for Academic Bodies.- Chapter 10. Digital Transformation and Digital Pedagogy- Quality of Learning and Teaching in EHEA.- Chapter 11. Suggestions for Academic Bodies.- Chapter 12. Networking and Cooperation in Promoting Quality Standards Through Internationalization.- Chapter 13. Conclusion.