The 2023 EDEN conference is designed to explore the theme, “Yes we can!” – Digital Education for Better Futures. This theme focuses on the language of opportunity and challenges participants to dream big! While there are many big and small challenges that we can’t ignore in building a more inclusive digital future, the conference places the spotlight on the “art of the possible” in reimagining teaching, learning and assessment and delivering on the promise of better futures for all. We hope to encapsulate throughout the conference the spirit of hope and optimism through the enabling language of “yes we can”. More specifically, the conference theme asks:

1. What does a better future look like?

2. How can digital education contribute to this future?

3. What can you do to help make and shape a better future? 

Conference Topics 

In exploring the overarching conference theme of “Yes we can”, paper submissions are invited under the following five topics and related focus tracks: 

1. Transformative Education

• Digital transformation for better futures
• Fostering a digital education ecosystem for all
• Policy, strategy and leadership for the next normal
• Rewilding traditional places, spaces and habitats of learning
• Creating new lifelong learning pathways and recognition models

2. Future Pedagogies

• Putting education in the driving seat of the next big thing: AI, VR, the Metaverse, etc. 
• Designing best practices for blended, hybrid and online learning
• Hacking assessment for more authentic and meaningful learning
• Realizing the potential of open educational practices 

3. Next Generation Teachers and Learners

• Developing teachers’ skills and competencies for the digital era
• Exploring the Third Space in reshaping impactful professional learning
• Students as active partners in learning transformation
• Evaluating teaching and learning for continuous improvement

4. Digital Citizenship for Sustainable Futures

• Fostering resilience and wellbeing for digital living and learning
• Placing equity, diversity and inclusion at the core of digital education
• Infusing digital education across the Sustainable Development Goals 
• Understanding the ‘green’ dimensions of EdTech for better and worse

5. Research Designs for Uncertain Times

• The scholarship of practice
• Students as research partners
• Reframing the digital education research agenda
• Topics related to the EU Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027)