ICT in Higher Education and Lifelong Learning. SIREM 2013 Conference Proceedings.

The present proceeding collects thirty-one papers exposed during the scientific meeting SIREM 2013 “ICT in Higher Education” held on November 14th and 15th, 2013 in Bari, Italy. The conference engaged in an interesting interdisciplinary debate about the role of technology in higher education and lifelong learning, presenting an accurate analysis on new strategies for instructional design, innovative teaching approaches methods, and effective assessment systems. The conference also enabled SIREM scholars to collect the state of the art of the Italian scientific research and the best teaching experiences on the following topics: - Technologies in higher education - Digital skills and lifelong learning - Technological innovation and vocational training - Digital literacy and adult education - Technologies for lifelong learning - Innovative methods and techniques for e-learning - Models and assessment tools of e-learning - Mobile learning environments (M-learning) for adult education - Social learning and lifelong learning. The conference has been a very important scientific event to establish a dialogue among scholars from several Italian universities. During the conference, they met to examine and discuss emerging issues in the educational field, presenting different but complementary points of view and studies, aiming to map an evolving scene.