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Chapter 1 - Nothing Is Constant Except Change

Academia’s Digital Transformation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2022

By
Andreas Kaplan
Edited by
Andreas Kaplan
Andreas Kaplan
Affiliation:
ESCP Business School Berlin
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Summary

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a change in mind-sets in many university leadership teams and faculty members worldwide, previously somewhat vulnerable to the sector's digitalization. Academia proved capable of flexibility, going beyond their reputation of being change-averse, moving entire curricula online within days. Yet, to benefit from higher education's digitalization, propelled by the pandemic, future pedagogical innovation is vital so as not to make other sectors' errors of merely transferring the offline into the online world. Moreover, higher education will need to find responses to several (further) academic, budgetary, legal, and operational issues induced by the sector's digital transformation, potentially leading to its disruption. However, higher education also must evade false ideas such as believing that physical buildings will become redundant due to academia's digitalization: On the contrary, facilities will be more critical than ever.

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academiachangeCoronaCOVID-19digitalisationeducationhigher educationrevolutiontransformation
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Digital Transformation and Disruption of Higher Education , pp. 1 - 6
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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