Yonghua Song, rector of the University of Macau (UM), attended the 2025 World Digital Education Conference (WDEC) in Wuhan from 14 to 16 May 2025 as an invited speaker. During the event, he participated in the ‘High-level Dialogue on Digital Education’ of the plenary session and delivered a keynote speech at a parallel session, sharing his insights on the future development of digital education with experts from around the world.
This year marked the third edition of the conference, which was hosted by the Ministry of Education of China. Themed ‘Education Development and Transformation: The Era of Intelligence’, the year’s conference aimed to respond to the United Nations’ initiatives on global education transformation and to call for joint efforts to promote the development and transformation of education in the era of intelligence.
During the ‘High-level Dialogue on Digital Education’ of the plenary session, Song engaged in discussions with other guests, covering topics such as talent development standards in the era of intelligence, the promotion of educational equity, and the establishment of technology governance frameworks through collaboration between academia, industry, and government.
During the parallel session ‘Smart Education: Reshaping and Transcending Higher Education Teaching Systems’, Song shared his insights into trends in the integration of AI into education. He also presented UM’s initiatives in addressing these developments, as well as the latest research conducted by UM’s Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences in the field of emotional AI. Furthermore, Song engaged in in-depth discussions with experts and scholars on innovations in higher education in the context of AI.
| Source: Global Affairs Office | |
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