📘 Rethinking Higher Education in the Digital Age

AI, Sustainability, and Digital Innovation in China and Europe
Featured at the WACS 10 book exhibition
English cover
English edition
中文版封面
Chinese edition
🛒 Available at the book exhibition accompanying WACS 10 (Conference Foyer, 12–14 August 2026). Published in English and Chinese only.

Artificial intelligence is remaking the university faster than our ethics, regulations and pedagogy can respond. Rethinking Higher Education in the Digital Age asks what that transformation means — and answers from two vantage points at once: Europe and China.

Across eleven chapters, scholars and students compare how the world’s two great educational traditions meet the same disruption — the EU AI Act beside China’s state-guided innovation, the GDPR beside the PIPL, European humanism beside Chinese ambition. They examine AI ethics and academic integrity, the philosophy of teaching, student-data protection, machine translation and cross-cultural communication, virtual reality and smart learning spaces, digital literacy, and the environmental cost of going digital.

The result is neither techno-optimism nor alarm, but a sober, comparative map of the choices ahead — an indispensable guide for educators, policymakers and students who want to shape the university of the future rather than simply inherit it.

Editor: Prof. Dr. Martin Woesler, HNU
Publisher: European University Press (Europäischer Universitätsverlag), 2026
ISBN 978-3-86515-439-2

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