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Higher education institutions in the post-Covid era: transformation through crisis and outstanding issuesThe Covid-19 pandemic certainly was a cause of new challenges, but it has also exacerbated the already- existing weaknesses inherent in the ecosystem of higher education. The scope of institutional adaptation thus required was immense and remains both under-recognized and under-explored in the academic debate. The pace and depth of the transformation have not been even; institutional, political, legal, economic, and cultural factors were at play. No one-size-fits-all strategic approach to Covid-19 and its implications was possible. As law and regulatory efforts follow developments in society, several gaps and loopholes were left unattended in the early stage of the pandemic, thus frequently forcing HEIs to improvise. Notwithstanding the substantial and measurable degree of digital and institutional transformation HEIs attained, the pandemic left the fabric of the community of HEIs ruptured. Against this backdrop, this chapter outlines the key challenges and the takeaways, and makes a call for action.
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Higher education institutions and the global digital transformation: beyond the question of which skills for the 21st centuryThe objective of this chapter is to collect the key takeaways of the chapters included in this book and to employ these takeaways in a discussion on HEIs (including the challenges they face and the responses to these that they generate) in times of the global digital transformation. What are the key challenges HEIs face? How to address these challenges? Which business models to implement? How to prepare students for successful careers? How to use the talent and intellectual capital pertaining to HEIs to allow HEIs to enlighten the society?