Digital transformations in higher education before and following COVID-19: a Scandinavian tale

Rómulo Pinheiro, Cathrine Edelhard Tømte, Vito Laterza and Michael Oduro Asante

Chapter 24 in Research Handbook on the Transformation of Higher Education, 2023, pp 366-381 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Throughout Europe, governments have undertaken a series of policy initiatives to foster digitalization across the public sector. A key sector of society and the economy, higher education has also been the target of these trends, particularly since the outbreak of COVID-19. This chapter takes stock of ongoing developments in the Scandinavian context, using cases from Norway and Sweden. Conceptually, we focus on how agents within universities schematize, contextualize, and hypothesize social experiences in the context of past trajectories, ongoing dynamics, and future hopes and fears. The findings show that COVID-19 has had a significant, albeit diverse, effect on the digital transformation of Scandinavian universities. These findings provide important insights into the transformative effects that external shocks or crises have on change and adaptation across higher education as an organizational field.

Keywords: Business and Management; Education; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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