IECON ICELIE 2025 Keynote Manuel Castro 2025 10

Industry 5.0 and Engineering Education: Shaping the
Future of Human-Centered Innovation
Keynote Speaker: Manuel Castro
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, UNED, Madrid, Spain

Industry 5.0 and Engineering
Education: Shaping the Future of
Human-Centered Innovation
Manuel Castro
Professor UNED / IEEE Life Fellow
IEEE Former Division Director
IEEE Education Society President Emeritus
SPAIN
https://es.slideshare.net/mmmcastro
mcastro@ieec.uned.es

Industry 5.0 and Engineering Education: Shaping the Future of
Industry 5.0 is reshaping how we live, work, and learn, moving beyond the purely technological advances of the past to
put people and sustainability at the center. This new phase builds on the foundations of Industry 4.0 but shifts the focus
toward collaboration between humans and machines, blending advanced technology with human creativity and
responsibility. It’s not just about smarter systems; it’s about smarter societies. In this evolving landscape, the concept of
“smart” is no longer limited to cities or devices but extends deeply into our personal environments, forming what we call
Personal Smart Cities. These environments integrate ambient intelligence and connected technologies to create spaces
that respond intuitively to our needs, enhancing quality of life while emphasizing ethical and sustainable development.
Education and training are key pillars of Industry 5.0, where Smart Learning merges cutting-edge technology with
human-centric approaches. Methods like open learning formats—Learning Objects, Open Course Ware, MOOCs—and the
rise of lifelong learning foster inclusivity and personalization. Engineering education, in particular, is embracing this shift
by integrating practical skills through simulations, remote labs, and immersive environments, preparing learners to thrive
in a world where technology and human insight go hand in hand. This presentation draws on over three decades of
experience in distance education and skill development, showing how these efforts have evolved into Technology
Enhanced Learning (TEL) that aligns with Industry 5.0’s vision. Projects like SUTEE, In4Labs, and ECoVEM demonstrate
how practical training in Vocational Education and Training supports broader European goals, such as the European Chips
Act and ICT convergence. As Industry 5.0 unfolds, it challenges us to rethink evaluation, performance, and the role of
technology—not just as tools, but as partners that respect and enhance our social and personal identities. This is the
future of engineering education and beyond: a future where technology serves humanity, sustainability, and ethical
values in equal measure

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IoT– IoE – IoE – IoB – IIoT – I4.0
Cybersecurity
Digital
Smart Cities/World
Robotics
Augmented
Reality
Big Data & Analytics – ML – AI
– LA
Cloud
Computing
5G/6G
Industry 4.0 &
Technology Enablers

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/468a892a-5097-11eb-b59f-01aa75ed71a1/
• Attracting and retaining talents
• Resource efficiency for sustainability and
competitiveness
• Increased resilience
• Better productivity (autonomous fabrication)
• Augment customer experience
• Hiperpersonalization
• Resource chain Cadena de suministro receptiva
• Interactive product
• Human centric and governance
• Sustainible
• Social value
• Human artcraft
• Colaborative robots
Industry 5.0 &
Orientations

https://open.ieec.uned.es/in4labs/
Practical competences:
Open Platform for Remote
Laboratories Development
Smart Education

Smart Education

• Smart Industry and Technologies: Smart World
• Industry 4.0 & Technology Enablers
• Industry 5.0, Intelligent Personal Cities and Circular
Economy
• How is evolving our World ?
• Smart Education
• Higher Education and Technology
• European Projects and Social Impact
• IEEE, Societies and Code of Ethics
• Tribute

Since the instant that the mobile
phone named as “Smartphone”,
the English term of “Smart” is
used to define the tendencies
associated to define new aspects
of the digitalisation and Industry
4.0 applying the concepts of
intelligence to all processes and
systems
Source: https://www.i-scoop.eu/industry-4-0/manufacturing-industry/
https://www.prevencionintegral.com/comunidad/blog/hacia-mundo-sostenible/2018/01/10/concepto-smart-economia-circular
•Smart Industry/Technologies: Smart World

Source: https://www.apo-tokyo.org/resources/articles/industry-4-0-and-related-technologies/
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuarta_Revoluci%C3%B3n_Industrial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Industrial_Revolution
•Smart Industry/Technologies: Smart World
2010

Sensors
Servo
Motor
s
Step-by-step
Motors
DC
Motor
s Relay
Valve
Actuators
Source: https://www.postscapes.com/trackers/video/the-internet-of-things-and-sensors-and-actuators/
https://iotbytes.wordpress.com/basic-iot-actuators/
https://www.circuitbasics.com/introduction-to-microcontrolleres/
Intelligence:
Microcontrollers
Microcomputers
Industry 4.0 & Technology
Enablers

Source: http://www.rfwireless-world.com/Tutorials/5G-network-architecture.html
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/es/SSFKSJ_8.0.0/com.ibm.mq.pro.doc/q004870_.htm
https://www.mokosmart.com/lora/
Communications and applications
Enablers

Enablers: Internet of Energy
Energy and Sustainability / Mobility
Smart Grids – Prosumers (Producer-
Consumer)
Environmental and Renewable Energies
Industrial Internet of Things IIoT
Source: https://www.ioe-edu.eu/en/home-page.aspx/
https://instrumentationtools.com/electrical-power-distribution/

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/internet-bodies-convenient-yes-creepy-113031037.html
https://unherd.com/2018/11/prepare-to-be-microchipped/
https://www.rand.org/multimedia/video/2020/10/29/what-is-the-internet-of-bodies.html
https://itrexgroup.com/blog/internet-of-bodies-iob-definition-benefits-examples/#
Always connected
Weareables
On the body chips
Microbots
Augmented e-Health
Sexual Health
Cybersecurity
Enablers: Internet of Body

Source: https://www.ibm.com/topics/what-is-a-digital-twin
https://www.tomorrow.city/a/singapore-experiments-with-its-digital-twin-to-improve-city-life
Enablers: Digital Twin
A digital twin is a virtual representation of an object or
system that spans its lifecycle, is updated from real-time
data, and uses simulation, machine learning and reasoning
to help decision-making
A digital twin is a virtual model designed to accurately
reflect a physical object. The object being studied — for
example, a wind turbine — is outfitted with various sensors
related to vital areas of functionality. These sensors produce
data about different aspects of the physical object’s
performance, such as energy output, temperature, weather
conditions and more. This data is then relayed to a
processing system and applied to the digital copy
Once informed with such data, the virtual model can be
used to run simulations, study performance issues and
generate possible improvements, all with the goal of
generating valuable insights — which can then be applied
back to the original physical object

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The term of“Smart” is used to define the tendencies associated to define
new aspects of the digitalisation and Industry 4.0/5.0, and should be
joined to aspects of the application of the principles and basis of the
Circular Economy, Sustainability and Ethics
Source: https://www.prevencionintegral.com/comunidad/blog/hacia-mundo-sostenible/2018/01/10/concepto-smart-economia-circular
Industry 5.0, Intelligent Personal Cities and Circular
Economy

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We use the English Word “Smart” as a linguistic tool adopting spontaneous and
realistic term to define concepts appliaing them to different áreas of our social
environment as well as in the industry and financial arenas. This is a common term
used to be aplied to a smart person, as a clever or expert person, and we extend it
to everything related to the advanced technologies use. This is associated to the
holistic approach of the Circular Economy, as a massive alternative to the present
economy (linear) to assure the planet sustainability and to put out our bad habits of
over production and over consuming to save our limited resources where the term
“Smart” have a big importance in our social behaviour
Source: https://www.prevencionintegral.com/comunidad/blog/hacia-mundo-sostenible/2018/01/10/concepto-smart-economia-circular
A large part of the foundations and principles of Circular Economy are based on the way and the intensity as
the technology is evolving mainly in the changing to a digitalized world as highly correlated to the data
processing. Increasing technology processes as “big data”, industrial process automation and
sensor/actuators availabity everywhere are some of the indicators of new operations/processes that can
control and be focused industry activity sectors
Back to the Circular Economy as well as to the “Smart” activities and their different approaches we must
remark the fact that today we have new tolos and applications as never we have in the mindkind history
improving the accelarate rythm of developying and deploying new uses inside our industry and personal life.
We can show Big Data, Digitalisation, IoT (“Internet of Things”), Robotics, Sensors, Geolocalization and
Industry 4.0/Connected Industry, as well as other principles as the Governance, as the best path to drive to
the Integral Sustainability
Economy
Smart and Circular
Economy

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Source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/economy/20151201STO05603/circular-economy-definition-importance-and-benefits
The circular economy is a model of production and
consumption, which involves sharing, leasing,
reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling
existing materials and products as long as
possible. In this way, the life cycle of products is
extended
In practice, it implies reducing waste to a
minimum. When a product reaches the end of its
life, its materials are kept within the economy
wherever possible. These can be productively used
again and again, thereby creating further value
This is a departure from the traditional, linear
economic model, which is based on a take-make-
consume-throw away pattern. This model relies on
large quantities of cheap, easily accessible
Economy
Circular Economy

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Source: https://www.lazardassetmanagement.com/at/en_uk/references/fundamental-focus/packaging-in-the-circular-economy
A general Circular Economy model should be
extrapolated from this one for Packaging. Circular
Economy can be divided into five stages with design and
transportation being a common interconnecting stage
among all the individual stages. The five stages are:
sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, use, and recover
Each stage plays an important role in keeping the model
circular; “leakages” in any of the stages cause a
discontinuity, defeating the purpose of the circular
paradigm
Over the past few years, the implementation of the
Circular Economy paradigm throughout industries has led
to the emergence of new supporting technologies that
have eased the adoption of sustainable manufacturing
measures into the Circular Economy cycle. This type of
manufacturing is known as Circular Manufacturing (CM)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40684-021-00398-5
Economy
Circular Economy Vision: Circular by Design

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Source: https://sdgs.un.org/goals
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17
interlinked goals set by the United Nations in 2015
and are designed to “promote prosperity while
protecting the planet
SDGs recognize that ending poverty must go hand-
in-hand with strategies that build economic growth
and address a range of social needs including
education, health, social protection, and job
opportunities, while tackling climate change and
environmental protection
Technologies applied to each of the different SDG
may contribute to develop a better and more
sustainable application of the Circular Economy
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40684-021-00398-5#Sec28
Economy
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

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Source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40684-021-00398-5
The shared goals of the confluence and integration of
Circular Economy and Industry 4.0 can be illustrated
using the House of Sustainability
People are considered the foundation of the sustainability
house, while the purpose is what drives people towards
their goals. The incorporation of different I4.0 tools within
the CE builds a strong support that different SDGs can
lean on
These goals are the building blocks of Sustainable
Development (SD). Together, they achieve different
attributes of the three pillars of SD: environmental,
economic, and social. The House of Sustainability
provides a clear picture of how I4.0 and CE complement
each other. Without the supporting I4.0 tools, CE is not
sufficient to achieve SD. Similarly, incorporating I4.0 tools
into a linear economy will not achieve Sustainable
Development
Economy
House of Sustainability

Smart City is a concept on the city development through ICTs (Information
and Communication Technologies) to improve the infrastructures to the
citizens increasing the quality and liveness. From public transportation to
energy savings, sustainability and effienciency in all the aspects, improving
accessibility, social services, promoting sustainability, and give its citizens a
voice. A new city concept to live and enjoy
Though the term smart cities is new, the idea isn’t. Ancient Roman cities
actually elements of the concept, such as using technology to make their
citizens’ lives easier. Aqueducts and water drainage systems are just two
ways they did that, as well as the bath houses with hot/cold areas and spas
Source: https://blog.bismart.com/en/what-is-a-smart-city
https://panelesach.com/blog/smart-cities-o-ciudades-inteligentes-que-son/
Economy
Smart Cities

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2020 (7.800 millions of people)
2025 (8.140 millions of people)
• The cities are only using 2% of the world surface
• 50% of the people live there
• Now is 75% of the world energy consumption
• Emissions of 80% of world CO2
2100 … (10.000 millions of people)
• Cities and Megacities will use 5% of the world Surface
• 70% of the people will live there
• Small savings and small increase in urban energy
efficiency will be very significant woldwide
https://personalcities.org/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com.es/mundo-ng/grandes-reportajes/las-ciudades-del-futuro_5280/1/
https://interestingengineering.com/how-to-build-sustainable-megacities-of-the-future
https://www.worldometers.info/
Economy
Cities

• Tokyo (Japan) is currently the largest 'megacity' in the world with 37.4 million
inhabitants. In 2100 it will be Lagos (Nigeria) with 88 million
• The number of these urban centres are astounding and in a short period of time they
will become a great challenge for humanity at a demographic, migratory, socio-
economic, political and environmental level
• In 1900 just 13% of world population lived in cities
• In 2050, 70% of world population will be urban
• 7 of every 10 people will live in big urban, we need to organize them
• In 50 years urban population increased by 5 and in 2050 we expect a 60% more
• Number of Megacities (cities with more than 10 million people) increased by 15 in the
last 65 years (in 1950 there was 2, in 2015 there are 29) and in 2030 we expect 41
Source: https://www.iberdrola.com/sustainability/megacities-urban-area
Economy
Megacities

Source: https://www.iberdrola.com/sustainability/megacities-urban-area
Economy
Megacities

• Aligned – From the understandin of collaborative effort and associations for more
effective and larger actions
• Local commitment and character – Having the local visión of culture, art, nature and
community but with worldwide perspective and conscience (glocal)
• Inclusive – With spacial commitment and investements, social and economics,
integrating all voices
• Technical oriented – Empowering to créate more efficient cities finding the talent as
transforming booster
• Interdependency – From physical, digital and human function integration in the
cities, focusing on adaptation and resilience, safety and sustainability
• Economically sparkly and vibrant – As talent and investement focusing attraction
using the rightest technolopy for each necesity
Source: https://blog.bismart.com/en/what-is-a-smart-city
https://panelesach.com/blog/smart-cities-o-ciudades-inteligentes-que-son/
Economy
Intelligent Personal Cities

• Live, dynamic and active redefinition
• Looking to the past but changing the
future
• Not in a radical change >>> Le Corbusier in
Paris in 1925 >>> Paris 2021 all in 15
minutes concept
• Hopeful future
• Heritage
• Looking for new solutions and using the
best existing practices
• Looking for new possibilities that can not
exist
Source: https://personalcities.org/
https://archive.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/explore/cities-and-the-circular-economy
Economy

• Santander – deploying technology and
sensors to improve the city
• Rotterdam – water as focus of the future
management
• Singapore – available big data and digital
twin to improve the mobility and
harmony
• Dubai – increasing the investement to
have a better real world (10x / Minister
of State for Happiness)
• Tokyo – humanity over all
• Hamburg – leadership and identity
Source: https://personalcities.org/
Economy

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Comunication
Commerce
Climate
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• Smart University
• … Smart Cities (Smarts – Car2Go, Smart Living, …)
• … Smart World (Smart Grids)
• … Internet of Things
• … Industry 4.0 / e-Health 4.0 >>> Industry 5.0 (European
Union orientation centred on the People and Society)
• … Mobility – Usability
• … Sustainability and Respect to Environment
Smart Education

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• Smart Blackboards
• Smart Classes
• Smart Libraries
• Smart Universities
• Smart Campus
• Contents
• Methodology
• Curriculum
• Platform
• Teaching &
Learning
• Technology
• Processes
• Comunications
• Collaboration
• Data & Big
Data
Smart Education

https://science-teaching.org/
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics) education promotes the integration
and development of scientific and technical subjects
in a single interdisciplinary framework. It advocates
for a didactic approach that aims to ensure the
transversality of the learning process through
disciplines that are considered essential for the
integral development of individuals in today’s local
and global contexts, including Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics
Smart Education

https://sites.google.com/ieee-jp.org/manga-project/english
IEEE Japan heads a new way to use Manga in the learning
process allowing a different vision of learning:
• A Step into the Future
• AI Teacher
• I * IEEE
• Last TEEN
• Girls in Engineering 2/1
IEEE MANGA PROJECT - TECHNOLOGY
Smart Education

Practical competences & STEM: IEEE Try Engineering
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ieee-tryengineerin
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https://tryengineering.org/
Smart Education

https://tryengineering.org/
Practical competences & STEM: IEEE Try Engineering
Smart Education

Technology Enhanced
Learning
– Learning Management
Systems
– Virtual/SW/Simulation
– Remote Laboratories
– Flipped classroms
– Project/Problem base
learning
– Active learning
– Social media
collaboration
– Playroles
– Gamification
– Multimedia/hipermedia
– Inmersive
environments
Distance/Online
Face-to-face/Online
• Face-to-face Education
• Distance Education
– Mixed models
• Online Education
• Technology oriented
– Face-to-face / Mixed /
Hybrid
– Distance / Online
– Synchronous
– Asynchronous
– Formal
– Life Long Learning
– Unformal
– Technology oriented but
based on contents &
educational roles
» Blended
Higher Education and Technology 1983
2000 TEL
Mixed
Distance
Face-to-face
Blended
Distance
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Face-to-face
COVID
and
post
COVID Hybrid
Distance
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now

Administrators
Instructional designers
Contents designers
Curators
Tutors
Animators
Students (Peers)
Students (Seniors)
Students
Family
Work
Teaching centerd
on the teacher –
10 hours/credit
Teaching centerd
on the student –
25-30 hours/credit
(ECTS)
Teachers
Social
relations
Higher Education and Technology
New actors and roles online

Any place
Any where
Any moment
Any device
Any content
Any connection
Any competence
Internet
Student
Student
Internet
Broker
Server
Data Base
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Instruments
Controller
Software Lab
LMS
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Practical competences: Ubiquity and Technology

Hand-on Labs
Simulations
Virtual online
Labs
Remote Labs
Hybrid
Labs
Location
LOCAL REMOTE
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REAL HANDS-ON LAB REMOTE LAB
SIMULATED SIMULATOR VIRTUAL LAB
Laboratories
Practical competences: Laboratories

Practical competences: Remote Laboratories

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Practical competences: MOOCs and Remote Laboratories

50 years ago we developed at
UNED a portable lab in a briefcase
managed by post-mail
Practical competences: Pocket Laboratories

https://deustotech.deusto.es/
https://deusto.es/
Practical competences: Immersive / AR Laboratories

Final Conference, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan
29 September 2015
Face-to-face
Traditional
Education
MOOC
PBL - Labs
Blended Learning
Practical competences: The Learning Pyramide - William Glasser - 1990 – 1998

UNED Moodle ECoVEM
TUS Moodle ECoVEM
http://ecovem.ieectqai.uned.es/moodle2/
http://moodle-tus.ecovem.eu/
European Projects and Social Impac

I4EU - Key Competences for an
European Model of Industry
4.0 https://www.i4eu-pro.eu/laboratories/
European Projects and Social
Impact

https://premium.golabz.eu/about/go-lab-initiative
Inquiry Learning Spaces
Impact

Repositories: PV & Wind Remote
Laboratories
Impact

https://graasp.org/
Repositories and Educational Activities
Inquiry Learning Spaces
Impact

https://labsland.com/en
Industry
Impact

COGNITIVE SKILLS
Illustrating ideas and
concepts, integrating theory
with practice, exposing
theoretical models to
empirical testing, learning
new concepts
SCIENTIFIC SKILLS
Inquiry methodology based
on observation, hypothesis
forming, experimental
design, methodology,
interpretation of results
Learning laboratory
procedures, handle
instrument and equipment
PRACTICAL SKILLS
Personal skills such as
communications, report
writing, presenting and
discussing, time
management, team working
skills
GENERAL SKILLS
Industry 5.0 Skills

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We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the quality of life throughout the world, and
in accepting a personal obligation to our profession, its members and the communities we serve, do hereby commit ourselves to the
highest ethical and professional conduct and agree:
I. To uphold the highest standards of integrity, responsible behavior, and ethical conduct in professional activities.
1. to hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public, to strive to comply with ethical design and sustainable development
practices, to protect the privacy of others, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment;
2. to improve the understanding by individuals and society of the capabilities and societal implications of conventional and emerging
technologies, including intelligent systems;
3. to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest whenever possible, and to disclose them to affected parties when they do exist;
4. to avoid unlawful conduct in professional activities, and to reject bribery in all its forms;
5. to seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to acknowledge and correct errors, to be honest and realistic in stating
claims or estimates based on available data, and to credit properly the contributions of others;
6. to maintain and improve our technical competence and to undertake technological tasks for others only if qualified by training or
experience, or after full disclosure of pertinent limitations;
II. To treat all persons fairly and with respect, to not engage in harassment or discrimination, and to avoid injuring others.
7. to treat all persons fairly and with respect, and to not engage in discrimination based on characteristics such as race, religion, gender,
disability, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression;
8. to not engage in harassment of any kind, including sexual harassment or bullying behavior;
9. to avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious actions, rumors or any other verbal or physical
abuses;
III. To strive to ensure this code is upheld by colleagues and co-workers.
10. to support colleagues and co-workers in following this code of ethics, to strive to ensure the code is upheld, and to not retaliate
against individuals reporting a violation.
Code of Ethics
IEEE, Societies and Code of Ethics

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VISION:
“The Society strives to be the global leader in engineering education”
MISSION:
“The Society is an international organization that promotes, advances,
and disseminates state-of-the-art information and resources related to
the Society’s field of interest and provides development opportunities
for academic, industry and government professionals”
IEEE Education Society

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FIELD OF INTEREST:
“The theory and applications of electronics, controls, communications, instrumentation,
and computational intelligence to industrial and manufacturing’ systems and processes”
VISION:
“The vision of the IES is to advance global prosperity by fostering technological
innovation, enabling members' careers and promoting community worldwide. The IES
promotes the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and
applying knowledge about electro- and information technologies and sciences for the
benefit of humanity and the profession”
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

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Privacy / Data protection
Consent
Transparency
Bias
Manipulation
Technical limitations
Sustainability & Resources
Regulations
• European Union act
AI and Ethics

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UNED UNESCO Chair of Distance Education
• Present Chair, Angeles Sanchez-Elvira Paniagua
• Founder and past chair: Lorenzo Garcia Aretio
http://blogs.uned.es/cued/
https://aretio.hypotheses.org/5827/
(Garcia Aretio, 1989) EDUCATION is the process of
intentional and comprehensive optimization of wo/m@n
oriented to her/his complete self-realization and active
insertion in the nature, society and culture
Equality, Inequality and Equity in learning context must drive to:
1. improve
2. integral
3. intentional
4. autonomous
5. socialization
UNED meritorious friends
Tribute

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https://www.sirjohn.ca
We must reduce inequalities, and this has always been a
special focus of Open and Distance Learning
Sir John Daniel (Vision Pioneer)
Tribute

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Good teaching may overcome a poor choice of
technology, but technology will never save bad teaching
https://www.tonybates.ca/
Learning online requires students with self-discipline and
able to work to a self-managed schedule. This takes
training and practice. And are times for online and for
traditional and face-to-face
Personal priorities in online learning:
1. increasing access and flexibility
2. developing 21st century skills
3. reducing inequalities in the education system
4. increasing the cost-effectiveness of education
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