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preferences. This will require ongoing research, deliberative policymaking,
and the active participation of all stakeholders in the educational community.
While advancing into the future of education, we are also revisiting and
reinterpreting past educational practices. The future is not about completely
new methods but a blend of new technologies and traditional pedagogical
approaches. It is about integrating the digital with the physical, the new with
the old, and balancing technological benefits with the essential human ele-
ments of learning.
In a nutshell, the future of digital education is a fusion of the past and the
present, shaping a holistic approach to future learning.

Acknowledgement
This work is funded by National Funds through the FCT – Foundation for Sci-
ence and Technology, I.P., within the scope of the project Refª UIDB/557/
and DOI identifier https://doi.org/1.54499/UIDB/557/. Furthermore, we
would like to thank the Centre for Studies in Education and Innovation (CI&DEI)
and the Polytechnic of Guarda for their support.

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