Paradigm Reconstruction:Practicing Proactive Change—Infinite Possibilities:2023 Report on the Digital Development of Global Higher Education(Ⅱ)
The wave of higher education digitization is rapidly spreading worldwide.Digitalization has become the strategic support and necessary path for many countries to promote high-quality and sustainable development of higher education.In light of this,based on a systematic review of case studies of digital technology empowering higher education practices,this chapter summarizes the new paradigm of digital trasformation of higher education from four dimensions:educational approaches,school-running models,management systems,and guarantee mechanisms.It explores how digital technology systematically reconstructs higher education and provides insights into the future development of higher education.The educational approaches aim to change the traditional education models,realize a more virtual,precise,collaborative,and personalized educational pattern,and cultivate innovative talents with professional literacy,creative thinking,social responsibility and comprehensive quality.The school-running models aim to change the relatively independent format of operation among traditional universities,form closer cooperations between schools,cooperations between schools and enterprises,cooperations between schools and institutions,and international collaborations.This has promoted the generation and sharing of resources,open source and circulation of data,streamlined and paperless office environment,and carried out digital reforms in school-running process,teaching time and space,lifelong education,and cooperative education,leading to new changes in higher education school-running models.The management system aims to apply the digital concept to the formulation of policies,systems,and plans,strengthens the top-level management system.Through the use of digital technology,platforms,and data-driven approaches,higher education management can be transformed to be more afficient and targeted in terms of management forms and models,resources and contents,technologies and methods,outcomes and evaluations.This reshapes the governance system of universities.The guarantee mechanisms is to ensure the safety,health,quality,efficiency,and sustainable development of higher education's digital transformation.It also aims to ensure the government,higher education institutions,and enterprises to take a series of strategies,measures,actions,and guidelines,including five aspects of digital infrastructure guarantee,professional personnelbguarantee,information security guarantee,funding guarantee,and strategic policy guarantee.