DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF THE FUTURE

With the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen universities worldwide having to 'pivot' quickly to transform their education delivery to an online environment, as well as having to conduct their business operations virtually/remotely. For those universities who embraced digital transformation, they were able to adapt quickly to this new learning environment. Many others were not as successful. Part of the formula for success is for universities and other higher education institutions apply digital transformation technologies, processes, and leadership in this 'new normal'. This book will highlight what is needed in terms of digital transformation for the universities of the future in terms of technologies, processes, culture, and leadership considerations.

The book will be part of the new World Scientific book series, Digital Transformation: Accelerating Organizational Intelligence.

Contents:
A Digital Transformation Pathway for Universities (Susan Grajek and Betsy Reinitz)Sample Pathways and Persisting Challenges Along the Digital Transformation of Universities: Internal and External Influences (Mark D Juszczak and Katia Passerini)Digital Transformation for the Universities of the Future (Maria Teresa Pereira, Marcela Acosta, and Manuel Araújo Salvador)Universities of the Future (Dušan Lesjak and Srečko Natek)E-Learning and Digital Game-Based Learning for Universities (Naza Djafarova, Leonora Zefi, and Anastasia Dimitriadou)Virtual and Augmented Reality in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Analysis (Mauricio Hincapié M, Alejandro Valencio-Arias, Christian Diaz, and Jorge Renteria V)Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Education (Yuhanis Yusof and Fathima Fajila)Teaching and Learning in the University of the Future: Aligning Practice with Reality (Viswa Viswanathan)Entering the Learning Metaverse: Data-Driven Culture and Purpose-Driven Culture as Determinants of Sustainable Digital Transformation of the Universities for the Future (Mateus Panizzon and Nilda Stecanela)Intuition and Digital Trust in the Workplace: Exploring Decision-Making Styles (Joanna Paliszkiewicz, Fatih Çetin, and Markus Launer)Word Embeddings for Automatic Short Answer Grading (Marko Putnikovic and Jelena Jovanovic)Toward Semantically Enriched Information Management and Learning Management Environments (Karsten Böhm)
Readership: Students and instructors in universities and other educational institutions who are looking to move into the age of digital learning.

Key Features:
Very timely and unique in terms of the book's content; great worldwide interest and appeal for higher education institutionsNovel approach to addressing this topic through the lens of all 4 components (see above) of digital transformation (not just simply technologies)Almost all the Digital Transformation books are geared for businesses/industry instead of academe/universitiesAlmost all the Digital Transformation books are geared for businesses/industry versus academe/universities. For example: Schulte, P et al. (May 2021), The Digital Transformation of Property in Great China, World Scientific Publishing; Perkin, N and P Abraham (June 2021), Building the Agile Business Through Digital Transformation, Kogan Page; Nichols, M (May 2020), Transforming Universities with Digital Distance Education, Routledge