Conference proceedings: ICDE Virtual Global Conference Week 2021
During the week of 25 – 29 October 2021, ICDE hosted its first fully virtual global academic conference in history: the ICDE Virtual Global Conference Week 2021. This document contains the conference proceedings from the ICDE VGCW 2021.
Over the whole week, 136 delegates from 53 different countries convened through a flexible conference schedule adapted to various time zones to explore and discuss the main conference theme: “Upskilling and Upscaling for Quality Open, Flexible and Distance Learning.”
A range of presenters, panelists, moderators, and chairs from the ICDE global community contributed to the program, which was developed and led by the Program Committee and Scientific Committee for the conference. All sessions were recorded and subsequently published in a digital conference video library, accessible to all conference delegates.
Content of the proceedings
The conference proceedings include abstracts and summaries from the various panels, workshops and other sessions that took place. For all academic papers, the extended abstracts are published in the proceedings, and six of the papers are also being published as full academic papers in the final 2021 issue of Open Praxis, ICDEs open-access scholarly journal.