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The president of the SEK Educational Institution, Nieves Segovia, has participated in the webinar Scaling skills education with high-quality digital learning, organized by Times Higher Education and Coursera, to talk about the integration of teaching and learning skills throughout lifelong as fundamental elements for the digital transformation of higher education.
In her intervention, Nieves raised the limits of formal and non-formal structures in education and the functioning of traditional educational systems in universities, and defended an offer that is not valid only for a certain period of time. In this sense, she defined what for her the concept of community is, “those who share a common purpose, and in that purpose there may be high school or university level students” in a way that “goes beyond school and university understanding, giving them an offer that takes a step forward, lifelong learning, a system in which they can interact with people at different times in their lives”.
Along these lines, the president of the SEK Educational Institution announced the pioneering alliance in Spain between the SEK Educational Institution and Coursera, precisely as an example of the transformation led by the SEK Institution, with the incorporation of new agents into formal education for, in In short, improve the learning society.
Also participating in this meeting were, to exchange knowledge and good practices, Bachmann Bálint, rector of the Metropolitan University of Budapest, Hungary; Michael Hannon, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland; Alistair Lawrence, Times Higher Education special projects editor; Anastasia A. Minina, Associate Professor, Vice Chancellor for International Affairs, St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”, Russia; Andy Poole, Director of Partnerships at Coursera for Campus and Wolfang Pree, Senior Lecturer in Informatics, University of Salzburg, Austria.
During the meeting, the participants also discussed how the teaching of social skills will help students to work more effectively during their university period and in their professional life, the growing importance of the participation of graduates as part of the education of skills to improve links to the labor market and aid student employability, and how to enable lifelong learning programs that help both students and universities prepare for the future.
