EDUCATION 4.0. “FORCED” TRENDS IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN PANDEMICS TIME
EDUCATION 4.0. “FORCED” TRENDS IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN PANDEMICS TIME

Summary/Abstract: Universities are major players in the future of education. To successfully transition to a knowledge-based economy and a society-based economy, this critical period requires thorough reorganization and modernization of the academic system. Currently, a major part of higher education is based on traditional learning methods and although many academic units have also begun to conduct blended learning, many of them are still subject to the old procedures. Before the pandemic, the most preferred type of online courses was business specific or foreign language courses. Once the Covid crisis occurred, the entire learning environment was "forced" to migrate online, so online learning has changed from the preferred or sometimes available option to the new normal. There are more than 300 million students around the world that have indeed been disrupted in their teaching process due to the spread of the coronavirus. Global higher education institutions are highly impacted by a key component of chaos during challenging times: the ability to adapt and respond to ambiguity and uncertainty in an effective way so that they are not prone to failure. In this article, I analyzed the prospective study of digital challenges in higher education institutions. The importance of the subject being analyzed stems from the situation in which all universities find themselves in these difficult times. In addition, the analysis of the subject also revealed several factors other than digital infrastructure, which are very important in online education teaching, namely: adapting to the syllabus and design; tutors/training under "special" conditions the skills of the teacher/professor; inspire participation and compensate for missing human interaction.

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