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The XV Congress on Technology and Distance Education is an invitation to reflect on and analyze the challenges and innovations of higher education faced with 21st-century students.

The current world conditions marked by uncertainty, globalization, technologically modified processes and communication technologies, which have reduced the barriers of time and space, tend to blur borders between the various educational modes.
In this context, there has been an increase in the use of technologies to develop new forms of having access to university formation: within learning networks and communities, the internationalization of academic programs and the definition of quality standards for university formation. All these conditions set new demands for the educational sector and foment to rethink the philosophical, epistemological and pedagogical principles guiding higher education.

This academic encounter invites to build and share experiences according to three thematic blocs, which like pillars sustain the university task in all its areas of development:

The first pillar represents the philosophical, epistemological, political and ethical foundations that sustain the raison d’être of the universities at present. Linked to the latter, the second pillar refers to the theories according to which each university is faced with the pedagogical challenges imposed by the frequent social changes, the technologies and the formative demands of the citizens. This analysis ends with the third pillar presenting knowledge that is built up thanks to good practices and the use of technological resources, which make educational innovation and the renewal of didactic processes possible.

These three pillars are centered on the 21st-century student so that by revolving around the latter and the group that each one represents, the production of knowledge and applications in university practice can be achieved in a positive and relevant way.