augMentor aims to develop a novel pedagogical framework that promotes basic skills and 21st century competencies by integrating emerging technologies.

The development of personalized and collaborative learning and the achievement of higher-order thinking skills – the so-called 21st century competencies – is still nowadays a significant challenge. At the same time, it is of great interest to understand how learners work, how educators orchestrate their classrooms, and what information they have access to in order to adapt/enhance/improve their orchestration.
Emerging technologies have the potential to propel the change from an instructional teaching paradigm, that favors mass instruction, to a learner-centered paradigm, that promotes the development of new roles for both the teacher and the learner. However, their acceptability and adoption are still slow mainly due to fragmented approaches. Importantly, in order to ensure quality education it is mandatory to address unexpected emergencies and disruptive events that may undermine the human and social dimensions of learning. 

augMENTOR adopts an augmented intelligence approach, where people and machines work together, building on their own strengths, to develop customized and collaborative learning paths that promote both basic and 21st century competencies as well as design thinking and creativity. augMENTOR will leverage advancements in the fields of Pedagogical Design, Creative Pedagogy, Explainable Artificial Intelligence, and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for instructional purposes.