E-learning unites the world

15:41, December 1, 2021

Outcomes of the 20th European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL 2021)

Rapid digitalization encourages the transfer of many processes to an online format. The educational process at universities is no exception. Statistics show an explosive growth in the number of online courses and their listeners. So, in 2012, 250 courses were posted on online platforms, and by the end of 2017 - 9400, that is 38 times more, and the number of students registered on the platforms increased from 2 to 81 million people.

Teaching staff of Graduate School of Economics and Management of UrFU took part in the 20th anniversary European Conference on e-learning (ECEL 2021). This conference annually brings together researchers from more than 40 countries to discuss the theory and practice of e-learning, and was held at universities in France, Portugal, England, the Netherlands, Greece, Denmark. In 2021, the conference was hosted by the University of Applied Sciences HTW in Berlin, Germany.

Conference materials will be published in journals indexed in international scientometric databases (Scopus, Web of Science).

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.