The Transformation of Higher Education After the COVID Disruption: Emerging Challenges in an Online Learning Scenario
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Frontiers Media SA
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Higher education Innovation COVID-19 Digital transformation Online learning
Date
2021-02-11Referencia bibliográfica
García-Morales VJ, Garrido-Moreno A and Martín-Rojas R (2021) The Transformation of Higher Education After the COVID Disruption: Emerging Challenges in an Online Learning Scenario. Front. Psychol. 12:616059. [doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.616059]
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Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness ECO2017-88222-P B-SEJ-042-UGR18Abstract
Crisis requires society to renew itself, albeit in a disruptive way. The current Covid-19
pandemic is transforming ways of working, living, and relating to each other on a global
level, suddenly and dramatically. This paper focuses on the field of education to show how
higher education institutions are undergoing radical transformations driven by the need
to digitalize education and training processes in record time with academics who lack
innate technological capabilities for online teaching. The university system must strive
to overcome this situation to be competitive and provide high-quality education in a
scenario of digital transformation, disruptive technological innovations, and accelerated
change. To achieve these goals, this paper explains some barriers and challenges that
universities encounter, as well as technological resources and methodologies they have
used in the current scenario to transform higher education to face Covid-19 disruption.
The discussion and conclusion synthesize significant insights that can be applied to the
digitalization of education in the foreseeable future.