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The Covid-19 pandemic has presented an opportunity for rethinking assumptions about education in general and higher education in particular. In the light of the general crisis the pandemic caused, especially when it comes to the so-called emergency remote teaching (ERT), educators from all grades and contexts experienced the necessity of rethinking their roles, the ways of supporting the students’ learning tasks and the image of students as self-organising learners, active citizens and autonomous social agents. In our first Postdigital Science and Educationpaper, we sought to distil and share some expert advice for campus-based university teachers to adapt to online teaching and learning. In this sequel paper, we ask ourselves: Now that campus-based university teachers have experienced the unplanned and forced version of Online Learning and Teaching (OLT), how can this experience help bridge the gap between online and in-person teaching in the following years? The four experts, also co-authors of this paper, interviewed aligning towards an emphasis on pedagogisation rather than digitalisation of higher education, with strategic decision-making being in the heart of post-pandemic practices. Our literature review of papers published in the last year and analysis of the expert answers reveal that the ‘forced’ experience of teaching with digital technologies as part of ERT can gradually give place to a harmonious integration of physical and digital tools and methods for the sake of more active, flexible and meaningful learning.

This work describes a participatory design process of a course about open educational resources aiming at university professors in Latin-America. The methodology involves the active participation of Higher Education stakeholders for the adoption and fostering of specific actions aligned with the principles of open education. This task is part of the OportUnidad European project.

This paper introduces a conceptual matrix for analyzing ePortfolios, both in terms of design and educational purposes. For the development of this matrix, defined as support for the development of a diagnostic and projective tool, we applied an integrative literature review validated by experts. The matrix can help those who want to implement an ePortfolio for the first time, enhance and expand its use supporting learning, as a monitoring and evaluation strategy, or as a professional development and strategic positioning at the individual or institutional level.