Digital Transformation in Higher Education Institutions

本書分析了教學過程中使用的數位科技。作者們展示了在高等教育中使用人工智慧可以通過自動化行政教學任務、軟體程式優化課堂中需要加強的主題的檢測、課外指導和支援學生以及智能數據的使用來提供個性化教育。此外，作者們還展示了如何通過增強現實、適應性平台、智能導師系統、聊天機器人、適應性學習、電腦輔助教學、大規模開放式網上課程（MOOCs）和機器人來進一步個性化教育。作者回答了以下問題：在教學過程中可以使用哪些可持續的教育科技；區塊鏈技術和人工智慧如何應用於高等教育；如何在虛擬學習環境中應用元宇宙。本書對於對科技和教育感興趣的研究人員、專業人士和學生具有相關性。

Andreia de Bem Machado - Researcher at the Intelligence, Management and Technology for Innovation Research Center - IGTI at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. Adjunct Professor and research coordinator Faculdade Anasps Brasília - Brazil. She is an evaluator of higher education institutions for the Brazilian Ministry of Education. Teaching Directorate of the Municipal Department of Education of Palhoça - Santa Catarina - Brazil. She was part of the technical commission for the National Textbook Program of the Ministry of Education. She elaborated didactic material for people with low vision deficiency at UNESCO. Her research interests include: innovation, education, digital transformation, management, hybrid education, digital technologies, active methodology, knowledge media, entrepreneurship and knowledge management.

Maria José Sousa (PhD in Management with Habilitation in Management and Public MAnagement) is Pro-Rector for the Development ofDistance Learning and a professor and a research fellow at ISCTE/Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She is also an expert in digital education and digital skills, as she has assumed a post-Doc position from 2016-2018, researching that field, with several publications in journals with high impact factor (Journal of Business Research, Journal of Grid Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, and others). Worked as an expert, in a project of the European Commission for the creation of a new category regarding digital skills to be integrated with the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS). She was a member of the Coordinator Committee of the Ph.D. in Management at Universidade Europeia. She was also a Senior Researcher at GEE (Research Office) in the Portuguese Ministry of Economy, responsible for Innovation, Research, and Entrepreneurship Policies, and a Knowledge and Competencies Manager at AMA, IP, Public Reform Agency (Ministry of the Presidency and the Ministers Council). She was also a Project Manager at the Ministry of Labor and Employment, responsible for Innovation, and Evaluation and Development of the Qualifications Projects. Her research interests currently are public policies of Innovation and Education. She is a best seller author in Research Methods, ICT and People Management and has co-authored over 100 articles and book chapters in high-level journals (as the European Planning Studies, Information Systems Frontiers, Systems Research, and Behavioral Science, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Future Generation Computer Systems, and others), and is the guest-editor of more than 5 Special Issues from Elsevier and Springer. Is the former President of the ISO/TC 260 - Human Resources Management, representing Portugal in the International Organization for Standardization. She was/is the coordinator of several European projects of innovation (funded by programs as Erasmus +, Horizon Europe, and ICMPD) and is also External Expert of COST Association - European Cooperation in Science and Technology.

Francesca Dal Mas is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Strategy at the Department of Management of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy. Prior to joining Ca' Foscari, she was a Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Enterprise at the Lincoln International Business School of the University of Lincoln, UK. Her research interests include, in particular, the impact of new technologies on business models, sustainability, and gender issues. Although she deals with all types of organizations in many sectors, she specializes in the healthcare sector. In this context, she collaborates with leading international institutions, including Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Stanford, the University of Chicago, and the IHU Strasbourg. She is co-chair of the Healthcare Transformation Lab of the Institute for Transformative Innovation Research (ITIR) of the University of Pavia, Italy, and she is a member of the PhD board in New Public Management of the University of Milan - Bicocca, Italy.

Silvana Secinaro - Professor in business administration and accounting at the University of Torino, Department of Management. Chartered accountant and auditor, freelance journalist, and author of numerous publications on public and private accounting and new technologies impact on conservative businesses. Component of National Commission of Italian Ministry of Finance on public accounting. Finally, over the years, she has been the scientific coordinator of multiple European projects, such as H2020 Avangard, to study proper business models for electric mobility and an Erasmus + on social entrepreneurship.

Davide Calandra - Assistant Professor in business administration and accounting at the University of Torino - Department of Management. Co-lecturer in the PhD Program in Torino and didactic programs in several institutions such as Wroclaw University of Business and Economics, University of Palermo and the University of Torino. His research interests cover new technologies applications in ac- counting, auditing and accountability, and the application and management of new technologies in the health sector such as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Finally, he also deals with the Islamic economy and finance field.

Andreia de Bem Machado - 巴西聖卡塔琳娜聯邦大學智能、管理和創新技術研究中心（IGTI）的研究員。巴西布拉西利亞Anasps學院的副教授和研究協調員。她是巴西教育部高等教育機構評估員。巴西聖卡塔琳娜州帕洛卡市教育局教學總監。她曾是巴西教育部國家教科書計劃的技術委員會成員。她在聯合國教科文組織為視力不足的人士編寫教學材料。她的研究興趣包括：創新、教育、數字轉型、管理、混合教育、數字技術、主動方法、知識媒體、創業精神和知識管理。

Maria José Sousa - 擁有管理學博士學位和公共管理資格，是ISCTE/里斯本大學線上學習發展副校長、教授和研究員。她也是數字教育和數字技能方面的專家，2016年至2018年擔任博士後研究員，研究該領域，並在多個高影響因子期刊（如《商業研究期刊》、《網格計算期刊》、《未來世代計算機系統》等）上發表了多篇文章。曾在歐洲委員會的一個項目中擔任專家，該項目旨在創建一個與歐洲創新評分板（EIS）結合的新的數字技能類別。她曾是里斯本大學管理學博士課程的協調委員會成員。她還曾是葡萄牙經濟部研究辦公室（GEE）的高級研究員，負責創新、研究和創業政策，以及AMA, IP（總統和部長委員會下屬的公共改革機構）的知識和能力經理。她還曾在勞工和就業部擔任項目經理，負責創新、評估和資格項目的發展。她目前的研究興趣是創新和教育的公共政策。她是研究方法、ICT和人力資源管理方面的暢銷作者，並在高水平期刊上合著了100多篇文章和專書章節（如《歐洲規劃研究》、《信息系統前沿》、《系統研究和行為科學》、《計算和數學組織理論》、《未來世代計算機系統》等），並擔任Elsevier和Springer的5個特刊的客座編輯。她曾是國際標準化組織（ISO）人力資源管理技術委員會（TC 260）的前主席，代表葡萄牙參與國際標準化組織。她是多個創新項目的協調人（由Erasmus +、Horizon Europe和ICMPD等計劃資助），也是COST協會（歐洲科學與技術合作）的外部專家。

Francesca Dal Mas - 是意大利威尼斯Ca' Foscari大學管理系的高級講師。在加入Ca' Foscari之前，她曾在英國林肯大學林肯國際商學院擔任戰略和企業高級講師。她的研究興趣主要包括新技術對商業模式、可持續性和性別問題的影響。雖然她涉及多個行業的各種組織，但她專注於醫療保健領域。在這方面，她與包括哈佛醫學院、麻省綜合醫院、斯坦福大學、芝加哥大學和斯特拉斯堡IHU在內的國際領先機構合作。她是意大利帕維亞大學轉型創新研究所（ITIR）醫療轉型實驗室的聯席主席，並且是Elsevier和Springer的5個特刊的客座編輯。