The Spatial Logic of Digital Transformation in Higher Education
Higher education faces numerous challenges in the digital era.The entire process of talent cultivation,including its objectives,methodologies,evaluation,and employment outcomes,is confronted with significant hurdles.Scientific research encounters challenges in paradigm integration and organizational transformation.Social service provision faces challenges related to openness and innovation.Digital transformation emerges as a crucial pathway to address these challenges.From a spatial perspective,the digital transformation of higher education will create a vast integrated space,encompassing three interrelated sub-spaces:a virtual-real fusion space merging virtual and real environments,an open and interconnected space interweaving fluid and local spaces,and a data-intelligent convergence space integrating data and intelligent domains.This integrated space in higher education will present a novel future landscape:talent cultivation will generate new models and ecosystems;scientific research will achieve organizational reform and paradigm upgrades;and social services will promote universal learning and collaborative innovation.To realize this integrated space in higher education,it is necessary to reconstruct"spatial practices",innovate"representations of space",cultivate"representational spaces",and enhance human-machine integrated governance.
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