Rodrigues, Ana Luísa2025-06-232025-06-232024-04-24Rodrigues, A. L. (2024. Editorial: Education and innovative perspectives in higher education. Frontiers in Education, 9:1380280. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.13802802504-284Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/101691Globalization, digitalization, and a rapid technological development of many areas of life and society, bring humanity to another level of development. Changes in the educational organizations are inevitable and the university must meet new requirements in a new paradigm (Gafurov et al., 2020). This Research Topic “Education and Innovative Perspectives in Higher Education” invited the submission of articles on: globalization effects; impact of education on development and new challenges in the higher education area; generic, soft, and transversal skills and global citizenship education; entrepreneurship education and innovation in educational institutions; new pedagogical and didactic developments, including learning, assessment and teaching methodologies and models, as active learning and flipped classroom; and technological issues in education, as distance education, technologyenhanced learning, technological skills, and digital platforms. This edition had 70 submissions of which 23 articles were accepted for publication by 74 authors from different countries.engInnovationTechnologiesSkillsGlobal citizenshipEntrepreneurship educationPedagogical developmentsActive learningHigher educationotherhttps://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1380280