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.

Andreas Kaplan (Edited by)

9781108969062, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 June 2022

200 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.65 kg

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.

Preface: Digital transformation and the disruption of higher education Andreas Kaplan
1. Nothing is constant except change: Academia's digital transformation Andreas Kaplan
Part I. Revolution of The Higher Education Sector: 2. Higher education's digitalisation: Past, present, and future Victoria L. Murphy, Francisco Iniesto, Eileen Scanlon
3. Online learning: Expectations versus reality Irina Shcheglova, Ksenia Vilkova, Oksana Dremova
4. Social exclusion and the digital divide: Digitalisation's dark side Mmabaledi Kefilwe Seeletso
5. Internationalization of higher education: The case for virtual collaboration Jesús Pineda, Alexander Knoth, Dagmar Willems
6. Africa's university landscape: Embracing digital transformation Fred Moonga
Part II. Changes in Teaching Formats: 7. Contemporary changes in teaching formats: An overview Narasimha Murthy Kalanatha Bhatta, Ashwathanarayana Sashtry
8. Digital transformations in teaching and learning: A multiple case study approach Luiz Carlos Di Serio, Enido Fabiano de Ramos, Kenyth Alves de Freitas
9. Blending emerging technologies for student-centred teaching: A critical analysis Sameera Mubarak, Santoso Wibowo, Mubarak Rahamathulla, Rongbin Yang, Silke Schönert
10. Artificial intelligence: An adaptive learning methodology Francesca Pucciarelli, José Cobo-Benita
11. Quality assurance and enhancement: An application of digitalised data Julia Chen, Linda Lin, Dennis Foung, Caroline Nixon
Part III. Changes in Teaching Content: 12. Building human capital for the twenty-first century Natalia Timus, Zakaria Babutsidze
13. Combining work experience with digital learning Valerie Mc Taggart
14. Integrating digital competencies into non-stem subjects Kamaran Fathulla, Chavan Kissoon
15. Disrupting curricula in the area of the humanities Joshua Patterson
Part IV. Networking and Social Activities: 16. Working Adults' networking and social activities in lifelong learning Mamun Ala, Ingrid Day, Tareq Rasul, Sumesh Nair, Megan Baker
17. Students' social networks in a digitalised and multicultural world Abel Ebiega Enokela
18. Universities' online networking operations: Expectations and perceptions Xianghan O'Dea
Part V. Certification and Diplomas: 19. Shared learning in higher education: Toward a digitally-induced model Ulrich Hommel, Kai Peters
20. Degrees of disruption: Alternative educational credentialing Angela Boatman, Katrina Borowiec
21. Born-digital universities: Facing the new competitive landscape Albert Rof, Andrea Bikfalvi, Pilar Marques
22. Personalization of higher education: From prospects to alumni Grzegorz Mazurek, Karolina Ma?agocka
Part VI. Careers and Professionalization: 23. About university career services' interaction with EdTech Elizabeth Knight, Tom Staunton, Michael Healy
24. About training educators to become drivers for change Emma O'Brien, Ileana Hamburg
25. About instructors' readiness to teach online Shazia Aziz, Muhammad Asif Ikram Anjum
26. About precarious faculty and their digital disruption Lisa Allen
Part VII. Futuristic and Ultramodern Higher Education: 27. Learning analytics enriched by emotions Veronica Liesaputra, Claudia Ott
28. Personal analytics in the science of learning Russell Butson, Kait O'Callahan
29. The AI economy and higher education Liz Coulter-Smith
Part VIII. Higher Education in Motion: 30. Higher education in motion: Its transformation and potential disruption Andreas Kaplan
Editor's Biography
Index.

Subject Areas: Educational: IT & computing, ICT [YQTU], Open learning, home learning, distance education [JNQ], Educational psychology [JNC], Philosophy & theory of education [JNA]