Faculty development and digital technologies: a systematic review

In the research field of educational technology, Belt and Lowenthal’s literature review of scholarly articles, published from 2013 to 2018, highlighted how the integration of digital technologies into the teaching/learning processes can be a centralissue for Faculty Development (FD) initiatives.Besides, the recent pandemic emergency has encouraged a further development of studies on weaknesses and potentialities of teaching at a distance and higher education systems gained the opportunity to rethink strategic solutions at the organizational, methodological and infrastructure level in order to enhance the adoption oflearning technologies and develop the related teaching skills of faculties. Starting from this scenario, the SIPED work group 'Faculty Development andUniversity Teaching' planned to carry out a systematic review and investigate somecentral aspects of the research field of FD, including the impact of technologies onteaching methods, learning processes and evaluation systems.