Trends and Challenges in Digital Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Over the last few decades, advances in technology have facilitated significant progress in educational processes, particularly in personalizing learning and consolidating new training modalities. The recent irruption of Generative Artificial Intelligence opens up a new transformative scenario for education in general and higher education in particular. This paper presents today's leading trends and challenges in digital education research. Artificial Intelligence allows us to continue advancing research in educational technology, improve personalized student tracking systems, new learning dynamics, and new roles shared between teachers and learning machines. Perspectives on these advances and opportunities would be discussed.