Smart Pedagogy as a Driving Wheel for Technology-Enhanced Learning

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People have long talked about the use of technology in education and are looking for ways to incorporate different scientific advances into the learning environment, both to help students learn and make learning more interesting for them as well as to ensure that future generations can innovate based on previously accumulated knowledge. Today, when we talk about technology-enhanced learning, we mean the possibilities created by digital technology, which has become widely available to everyone thanks to both the creation of Intel’s digital microprocessor in 1971 (Chan et al., in Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning 1:3–29, 2006) and the creation of the world wide web in 1990 (Berners-Lee, T., & Cailliau, R. (1990, November 12). WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project. https://www.w3.org/Proposal.html). The current crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has given a further boost to technological developments to ensure access to education, which is one of the most important areas of society. Everyone has come across education in its various forms, either by learning at any level or form of education or by being a parent who has become a provider of home-schooling during remote learning (Daniela et al., in Sustainability 13:3640, 2021), whether as an educator or a creator of learning materials and technologies. The Covid crisis has shown that the use of technology is sometimes the only way to provide access to education, but despite the potential of technology to organize synchronous and asynchronous learning, there are still many problems in using technology, both in terms of just sending students materials to learn by e-mail and also with the initial inflexibility of the learning process. For instance, synchronous online classes were organized for students according to the traditional agenda of classes without thinking about the students’ ability to focus on on-screen activities for many hours and, after that, to do independent work.