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The Innovating Higher Education Conference 2025 explored innovations in online, blended and open education to create inclusive, adaptable, and future-proof learning environments. It brought together experts from across the field, offering innovative strategies for teaching, learning, research, and leadership.

This report by EADTU’s Task Force on Personalisation of Education explores how universities can design meaningful, scalable, and ethical approaches to personalised learning. Bringing together experts from Europe and beyond, it offers conceptual insights, institutional strategies, and practical recommendations to advance learner agency, equity, and success in digitally enhanced higher education.

In this 9th edition, you will find 14 articles on innovations in teaching & learning. Themes include Generative AI, Adaptive Learning systems, Cyberbullying, Socratic Dialogue, Learner Engagement, Assessment, Hybrid learning and Microcredentials.

This report covers the achievements and milestones of EADTU in 2024.

In the 2024 Quality Network report, the Focal Points on Quality have outlined the application of AI in education from their regional perspectives. The European perspective is written by EADTU.

The report includes a detailed analysis on the added value a European degree could bring. It presents a unified and consensual list of 16 co-created European criteria and the rationale for each of them. Other key suggestions include the development of toolkits and guidelines to operationalise the co-created European criteria, the definition of a clear implementation roadmap and promoting the European degree to enhance its recognition and valorisation.