What works in terms of career interventions? How to better support students in their career development? These questions lead a new branch of international investigations which try to exploit students’ longitudinal data to better understand what leads to better career development outcomes. The STAR.APP project strongly follows these new approaches where data become fundamental allies […]
Tutoring is an essential aspect of the modern and inclusive pedagogical process, improving both academic and non-academic aspects of students’ lives. The tutoring process is intensively laborious, demanding either dedicated staff or extra workload to either teaching staff or other students. Therefore, tutoring is mostly implemented half-heartedly or not at all. As has been the […]
2020 was a year of a change for everyone. In higher education, most European universities closed their campuses in March 2020. As expressed by OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is having a profound impact, not only on people’s health, but also on how they learn, work and live. One of […]
One of the goals of the Europe 2020 strategy is that at least 40% of 30-34 years-old complete higher education. Reducing dropout and increasing completion rates in higher education is one of the key strategies for achieving this goal, which is crucial for creating the high-level skills that Europe’s knowledge-intensive economic sectors need. When university […]
A brand new European initiative has started. It is called STAR.APP and it is funded by Erasmus + KA2 funding. The project started in September 2020 and brings together 5 universities and 1 technical partner to explore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to support students’ academic performance. Experts in educational sciences will work with […]
