Digital higher education: a divider or bridge builder? Leadership perspectives on edtech in a COVID-19 reality.

ABSTRACT: The edtech community has promoted claims that digital education enhances access, learning, and collaboration. The COVID-19 pandemic tested these claims like never before, as higher education systems seemingly overnight had to move teaching online. Through a sequential mixed-method approach, we investigated how 85 higher education leaders in 24 countries experienced this rapid digital transformation. Through their experiences, we identified the multiple and overlapping factors that contribute to an institution's ability to realize the potential of digital education, in terms of access, learning and collaboration, whilst highlighting deeply rooted inequalities at the individual, institutional and system level. Drawing on these empirics, we put forth recommendations for closing the digital di

SUBMITTER: Laufer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8460315 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature