Current Technologies, Present Challenges and Emerging Solutions for Digital Transformation of the Engineering Education

The digital transformation of the educational domain is an ongoing process that covers all study areas and all degree levels - from the primary school to the university. This process is constantly fuelled by the development of newer information and communication technologies, collaboration tools and hardware platforms and by their integration in the different courses and educational processes. In this paper we provide a review on the most popular current technologies for digital transformation of the education, followed by an analysis on the emerging solutions and tools for the digitalization of the teaching and learning processes. Next, the paper presents a discussion on the challenges and issues of the digital education. Besides the direct use of the technologies for digital transformation of the education, we also provide a different point of view on the subject by analysing the needs, the advantages and the disadvantages from the introduction of the actual technologies as learning subjects in the higher education.