This document summarizes a webinar discussing how COVID-19 has positively changed universities. Speakers from universities in Spain, Finland, Denmark, and South Africa discussed their experiences with transitioning to online learning, challenges faced, and opportunities for improvement. Topics included the need for better internet access, pedagogically sound uses of technology, risks of overemphasis on short-term responses, and ensuring equitable access to education during and after the pandemic. Overall, the webinar focused on lessons learned from the crisis and ways it could spur beneficial long-term transformations in higher education.

1. “How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
#ENoLLCorona
16nd June 2020, 13:00h – 14.00h CET
Living Lab response to COVID-19
What is currently happening in your
local ecosystem?

2. Part 1: “What is currently happening in our cities and communities?”
Part 2: ”What’s next?” Steps towards the new digital society post COVID-19.
• Fernando Vilariño. Quick intro and context. Computer Vision Center - UAB and ENoLL Chairperson
• Esteban Romero Frías. Medialab, University of Granada, Spain
• Marko Teräs. Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Finland
• Maria-Theresa Norn. Think Tank DEA, Denmark
• Narend Baijnath. Council on Higher Education, South Africa
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
ENoLL Webinar Series on the COVID-19 crisis: ”Let us tackle COVID-19 together”. http://enoll.org 16th June 2020, 13:00h – 14.00h CET #ENoLLCorona
Living Lab response to COVID-19
What is currently happening in your
local ecosystem?

3. Part 1: “What is currently happening in our cities and communities?”
Part 2: ”What’s next?” Steps towards the new digital society post COVID-19.
• Fernando Vilariño. Quick intro and context. Computer Vision Center - UAB and ENoLL Chairperson
• Esteban Romero Frías. Medialab, University of Granada, Spain
• Marko Teräs. Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Finland
• Maria-Theresa Norn. Think Tank DEA, Denmark
• Narend Baijnath. Council on Higher Education, South Africa
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
ENoLL Webinar Series on the COVID-19 crisis: ”Let us tackle COVID-19 together”. http://enoll.org 16th June 2020, 13:00h – 14.00h CET #ENoLLCorona
Living Lab response to COVID-19
What is currently happening in your
local ecosystem?

4. “How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
Webinar June 16th 2020 http://enoll.org

5. Part 1: “What is currently happening in our cities and communities?”
Part 2: ”What’s next?” Steps towards the new digital society post COVID-19.
• Fernando Vilariño. Quick intro and context. Computer Vision Center - UAB and ENoLL Chairperson
• Esteban Romero Frías. Medialab, University of Granada, Spain
• Marko Teräs. Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Finland
• Maria-Theresa Norn. Think Tank DEA, Denmark
• Narend Baijnath. Council on Higher Education, South Africa
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
ENoLL Webinar Series on the COVID-19 crisis: ”Let us tackle COVID-19 together”. http://enoll.org 16th June 2020, 13:00h – 14.00h CET #ENoLLCorona
Living Lab response to COVID-19
What is currently happening in your
local ecosystem?

6. Esteban Romero-Frías
estebanromero.es | @polisea | erf@ugr.es
Director for Participation & Social Innovation & Medialab (University of Granada)
Tenured Associated Professor at the Department of Accounting and Finance
Medialab UGR
An Innovation Lab created within the University and acting as a open physical and digital space to connect academia and
society. It is committed to the analysis of challenges and dissemination of opportunities generated by digital technologies in
our society.
Keywords: public engagement, experimentation, social innovation, active citizenship, openness.
Projects:
• Radiolab (medialab.ugr.es/radiolab) – a digital radio project.
• LabIN Granada (labingranada.org) - a Citizen Lab for Granada.
• Laboratorio 717 (laboratorio717.org) - Laboratory of Participation and Democratic Innovation of Andalucía.
• Cooperanda (cooperanda.org) - a visualization project of the international development cooperation in Andalusia.
• Youth PB (youthpb.eu) – making visible participatory budgets processes involving young people in Europe.
• Red Knowmetrics (red.knowmetrics.org) - a social network for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Red UnInPública (uninpublica.net) - a network for public innovation from universities.
• Facultad Cero (facultadcero.org) – how to design the next course after COVID-19.
“Universities for Public and Social Innovation: UnInPública & Facultad Cero”
Esteban Romero-Frías. Medialab UGR (University of Granada)
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
Webinar June 16th 2020 http://enoll.org
medialab.ugr.es | @medialabugr |
medialab@ugr.es

7. UnInPública
• Iberoamerican Network of Universities for Public Innovation.
• An initiative intended to articulate new ways to connect universities and
• society through the improvement of public policies through public innovation (and other
types of innovation).
• Based on an holistic, open, participatory, quadruple helix model of innovation.
• Focused on the Agenda 2030.
• Conference (21&22 May 2020): 500 participants, 50 speaker and facilitators, 43 universities
+ 17 organizations. With the support of Ibero-American General Secretariat and Spanish
Ministries.
Facultad Cero
“How to design the next course after COVID-19?”
Its purpose is (1) to create a digital space to share experiences and (2) to organize
virtual meetings to learn from the hundreds of teaching innovations developed in recent
months with the practical purpose of improving the design of the next course.
Scope: Spain & Ibero-America.
“Universities for Public and Social Innovation: UnInPública & Facultad Cero”
Esteban Romero-Frías. Medialab UGR (University of Granada)
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
Webinar June 16th 2020 http://enoll.org
uninpublica.net
@uninpublica
contacto@uninpublica.net
facultadcero.org
@facultadcero
info@facultadcero.com

8. Part 1: “What is currently happening in our cities and communities?”
Part 2: ”What’s next?” Steps towards the new digital society post COVID-19.
• Fernando Vilariño. Quick intro and context. Computer Vision Center - UAB and ENoLL Chairperson
• Esteban Romero Frías. Medialab, University of Granada, Spain
• Marko Teräs. Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Finland
• Maria-Theresa Norn. Think Tank DEA, Denmark
• Narend Baijnath. Council on Higher Education, South Africa
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
ENoLL Webinar Series on the COVID-19 crisis: ”Let us tackle COVID-19 together”. http://enoll.org 16th June 2020, 13:00h – 14.00h CET #ENoLLCorona
Living Lab response to COVID-19
What is currently happening in your
local ecosystem?

9. Covid-19 and jump to online learning:
Why it’s not what you think
Marko Teräs (PhD)
Research group lead, Critical Applied Research of Digitalization in Education (CARDE): https://research.tuni.fi/carde/
Project lead, ’BUKA’: Advancing Equity and Access to Higher Education through Online and Distance Learning:
https://projects.tuni.fi/buka/
Team leader, Ubiquitous Learning Environments, School of Pedagogical Innovations
School of Professional Teacher Education
Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Tampere, Finland
“Covid-19 and jump to online learning: It’s not what you think”
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK)
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
Webinar June 16th 2020 http://enoll.org

10. BUKA project findings / CARDE research group findings
“Covid-19 and jump to online learning: It’s not what you think”
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK)
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
Webinar June 16th 2020 http://enoll.org
Gaps in “online learning utopia” (Finland, Ireland, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines):
• Low or no access to the Internet in remote areas (Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia)
• Quick fixes with (free) technologies, content and learning platforms (difficult to change later
on)
• Low expertise in different pedagogical approaches to online learning (“information delivery”
reigns)
• Quick fixes to online learning could become permanent structures, processes and
technologies
• Online learning sometimes seen only as cost-efficient, re-usable, self-study, no need for
teachers
Before “online learning utopia” takes place, we need to:
• Develop better access to the Internet in remote areas (equity)
• Develop pedagogically meaningful use of technologies

11. Part 1: “What is currently happening in our cities and communities?”
Part 2: ”What’s next?” Steps towards the new digital society post COVID-19.
• Fernando Vilariño. Quick intro and context. Computer Vision Center - UAB and ENoLL Chairperson
• Esteban Romero Frías. Medialab, University of Granada, Spain
• Marko Teräs. Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Finland
• Maria-Theresa Norn. Think Tank DEA, Denmark
• Narend Baijnath. Council on Higher Education, South Africa
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
ENoLL Webinar Series on the COVID-19 crisis: ”Let us tackle COVID-19 together”. http://enoll.org 16th June 2020, 13:00h – 14.00h CET #ENoLLCorona
Living Lab response to COVID-19
What is currently happening in your
local ecosystem?

12. My perspective:
• DEA: A Danish non-profit, non-partisan think tank on education, science and
innovation policy
• Part-time affiliation at the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research
Policy, Aarhus University
• An evidence-based perspective on the knowledge and innovation system
• But there isn’t much evidence to build on when it comes to COVID-19!
“THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME”
MARIA THERESA NORN. THE THINK TANK DEA & AARHUS UNIVERSITY
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
Webinar June 16th 2020 http://enoll.org

13. Looking beyond the immediate effects
• A new role for online/remote teaching – but a long way to go
• Less international student base – and perhaps faculty team for some time
• More online conferences, remote collaboration – but to what extent?
• Funders: will acute responses be followed by sustained responses?
• Public funding: under pressure already. What will happen post-COVID-19?
• Strengthened trust in science?
• Risks of excessive ‘covidization’ of research, and too much ‘fast science’
• Great expectations of impact > but what of basic research and non-priority fields?
• Lessons to be learned for mission-oriented research and innovation policies?
• “The more things change, the more they stay the same”
“THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME”
MARIA THERESA NORN. THE THINK TANK DEA & AARHUS UNIVERSITY
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
Webinar June 16th 2020 http://enoll.org

14. Part 1: “What is currently happening in our cities and communities?”
Part 2: ”What’s next?” Steps towards the new digital society post COVID-19.
• Fernando Vilariño. Quick intro and context. Computer Vision Center - UAB and ENoLL Chairperson
• Esteban Romero Frías. Medialab, University of Granada, Spain
• Marko Teräs. Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Finland
• Maria-Theresa Norn. Think Tank DEA, Denmark
• Narend Baijnath. Council on Higher Education, South Africa
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
ENoLL Webinar Series on the COVID-19 crisis: ”Let us tackle COVID-19 together”. http://enoll.org 16th June 2020, 13:00h – 14.00h CET #ENoLLCorona
Living Lab response to COVID-19
What is currently happening in your
local ecosystem?

15. CHE
• Regulatory, QA and Advice.
• National steering of the PSET response.
• MTT and Joint TT as vehicles.
Context
• Historical legacy, inequality, developmental challenges.
• Diversity of students (class, race, gender, geography, digital resources, and
institutional capacity) – impact on policy and planning, and quest for
equity.
• Disproportion between institutions in catering for legacy issues.
• Student activism since 2015 for free HE.
From Crisis to Enduring Transformation
Narend Baijnath – Council on Higher Education, South Africa
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
Webinar June 16th 2020 http://enoll.org

16. Facing the future; learning from the crisis
• Eradicating poverty and inequality.
• Data aggregation and analytics.
• Leveraging OERs and rethinking the funding model of HE to promote high
quality. materials development to be made available as OER.
• Disaster management strategies – for teaching, learning and assessment.
• Inter-institutional and cross border cooperation.
• Investing in the development of online assessment.
• Digitising on all fronts – architecture, learning systems, business processes,
capacities of all staff, materials.
• Empowering students with devices and affordable internet access.
”From Crisis to Enduring Transformation”
Narend Baijnath – Council on Higher Education, South Africa
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
Webinar June 16th 2020 http://enoll.org

17. Part 1: “What is currently happening in our cities and communities?”
Part 2: ”What’s next?” Steps towards the new digital society post COVID-19.
• Fernando Vilariño. Quick intro and context. Computer Vision Center - UAB and ENoLL Chairperson
• Esteban Romero Frías. Medialab, University of Granada, Spain
• Marko Teräs. Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Finland
• Maria-Theresa Norn. Think Tank DEA, Denmark
• Narend Baijnath. Council on Higher Education, South Africa
“How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
ENoLL Webinar Series on the COVID-19 crisis: ”Let us tackle COVID-19 together”. http://enoll.org 16th June 2020, 13:00h – 14.00h CET #ENoLLCorona
Living Lab response to COVID-19
What is currently happening in your
local ecosystem?

18. ENoLL Webinar Series on the COVID-19 crisis: ”Let us tackle COVID-19 together”.
http://enoll.org #ENoLLCorona
• 21/4/20 13:00h CET “Living Labs and the Maker community’s response to the COVID-19 crisis around Europe and the World“
• 05/5/20 13:00h CET “Hackathons of technology for good: Co-creating and deploying during COVID-19 crisis”
• 19/5/20 13:00h CET “Government and citizen engagement in COVID-19 confinement and beyond”
• 02/6/20 13:00h CET “Communities innovating around the health systems: the reaction to the COVID-19 emergency and what will remain”
• 16/6/20 13:00h CET “How the COVID-19 has changed our Universities for good”
• 30/6/20 13:00h CET “Rural development, nature and tourism: impact of COVID-19 and new approaches”
• 14/7/20 13:00h CET “SMEs in Europe and Open Innovation for the post COVID-19 digital society”
• And, probably, more…
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