Digital transformation of higher education as a driver of Ukraine's integration into the European educational space
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The article aims at outlining challenges and prospects of digital transformation in Ukrainian higher education (HE) in the landscape of European integration prospects. Based on content analysis and system approach, it is demonstrate that digital transformation in education goes far beyond digitalization and covers organizational behavior and business processes architecture. Accordingly, attempts to introduce advanced digital solutions into the organizational landscape of higher education institution (HEI) in many cases leads to failure or at least does not bring full range of expected results. Special attention is paid to the concept of digital maturity as the notion, most fully describing the essence of digital transformation. Based on the cases of Hungary and Norway as two opposite examples of HE digital transformation effectiveness, the prospects for Ukrainian HE in this domain are outlined.References
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