The Transformative Impact of Digital Tools on Quality Education and Sustainable Development

Digitalization has significantly transformed the educational landscape by integrating technology into learning environments. It offers new opportunities to enhance student engagement, expand access to learning, and contribute to addressing global challenges such as those outlined in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. However, this transformation also brings critical challenges—ranging from equity of access and data privacy to the accelerating pace of technological change—that require renewed reflection and systemic analysis.

This Research Topic focuses on rethinking future-focused education within the broader context of digital transformation. It aims to explore emerging perspectives and policy-level insights that support the development of inclusive, adaptive, and forward-looking education systems. By emphasizing digital technologies, this Research Topic seeks to understand how education is evolving at a structural level and how innovation can be meaningfully integrated across educational contexts.

To gather further insights on the systemic implications of digital transformation in education, we welcome articles that address themes such as, but not limited to:

• Policy approaches to integrating digital technologies in education.
• Equity, inclusion, and access within digitally transforming systems.
• The broader impact of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies on educational structures.
• Institutional strategies for navigating digital change.
• Educators’ roles and competencies in shaping future-ready learning environments.
• Digital transformation and its alignment with long-term educational goals and social development.

This Topic invites research that moves beyond tool-specific interventions to reflect on the wider educational, institutional, and societal dimensions of digital change.

Article types and fees

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• ... View all formats

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Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Policy and Practice Reviews
• Review
• Systematic Review
• Technology and Code

Keywords: Digital Transformation, Digital Education, Digital Competencies, Digital Technologies, Digital Assessment Tools, Digital Learning, Teaching Processes

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.