Prof. K. Pushpanadham from M. S. University of Baroda has been invited to deliver a keynote address at the Global Lifelong Learning Conference organized by the ASEM Lifelong Learning Hub.

The ASEM LLL Hub, established in 2005, is an official network of Asian and European higher education institutions, working and learning together to achieve excellence in comparative research on lifelong learning, to offer research-based education policy recommendation, and to develop mutual understanding between Asia and Europe. It provides a platform for dialogue between researchers, practitioners and policy makers in order to contribute to evidence-based educational reform and innovation. Its six research networks exchange knowledge, conduct comparative research and produce coordinated publications and reports through it's six active research networks. The global lifelong learning week take a stock on how universities across Asia and Europe have responded to the shift to the online and digital learning in the context of the post coronavirus pandemic crisis.

Prof. K. Pushpanadham, Professor of Educational Management and Head, the Department of Educational Administration at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda has been invited to deliver a keynote address at the Global Lifelong Learning Conference organized by the ASEM Lifelong Learning Hub at the University of Cork, Ireland during 25-30 September, 2022. He is nominated by the ASEM LLL hub as the coordinator of the Research Network that focusses on Digitalization of Higher Education. He addressed the Asia- Europe Delegates at the University of Cork on the theme - Digitization of Higher Education: Imperatives to Lifelong Learning.

Modern societies have been facing an ongoing digitalisation of the human activity in all sectors, including the field of Education in general and higher education in specific. Academic communities worldwide have been tuned  to make a sudden pivot from face to face to online virtual learning and teaching. The extensive use of the distance education in the tertiary level in the wake of COVID-19 crisis, sparked a productive discussion on the ongoing digitalisation of the universities, offering a wide range of opportunities, but also challenges for the higher education Quality. Research in Higher Education should focus on the pedagogic approaches that create awareness of existing inequalities in higher education, employing technologies as means to enhance access to education, to improve learning achievement and to make space for collaborating experiences and interactions on global platforms and on global scale,. said Prof. Pushpanadham.

NEP (National Education Policy) 2020, envisaged the need for digital transformation in education and from this perspective, special attention should be paid to important factors influencing students learning experience and readiness towards online learning, particularly in terms of available technological devices, sufficient digital skills, appropriate home-learning environment, learning spaces and the institutional capacity. Such an analysis would help the higher education system  to better understand the impact of such factors on the students’ learning and to better redesign integral pedagogies and more inclusive teaching and learning practices in digitalised education, highlighted by Prof. Pushpanadham.