Training Model for Improving Teachers in HE: Challenges, Criticalities, and Possibilities

The sixth chapter presents and shows the result of a specific training that teachers carried out during pandemic, which aimed to provide academic teachers with the necessary competences to ensure quality online teaching, and focused on active and collaborative methodologies, an activity-centered approach and the change in roles of students and teachers. This shift of roles considers the students an active part of their learning, with teachers guiding the process. The essay aimed to discover how it would be possible to help academic teachers improve their digital competences and teaching methods.