Digital Transformation and Disruption of Higher Education

Written during the COVID pandemic, this book offers a unique, timely insight into the acceleration of digitalization in higher education.

The Covid-19 pandemic significantly accelerated higher education's digitalization. This volume analyses the digital transformation, and its potential disruption, of higher education. It is a book for leaders in education who are interested in the shift to online learning and what it is likely to look like in the future.This book analyses higher education's digital transformation and potential disruption from a holistic point of view, providing a balanced and critical account from a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints. It looks at case studies on educational and emerging technology, their impact, the potential risk of digitalization disrupting higher education, and also offers a glimpse into what the future of digitalization will likely bring. Researchers and practitioners from countries including New Zealand, Russia, Eswatini, India, and the USA, bring together their knowledge and understanding of this rapidly evolving field. The contributors analyse academia's digitalization along the broad topics of the sector's general digital (r)evolution. The book looks at changes in instructional formats from the Massive Open Online Courses to Small Private Online Courses and artificial intelligence. This work also provides analysis on how skills, competences and social networks demanded by future jobs and job markets can be further integrated into higher education.