The pandemic has lubricated the process in which online platforms and virtual technologies are being integrated as tools for higher education learning, which accelerates the embedding of the Fourth Industrial Revolution discourse into higher education. Digital infrastructures help facilitate learning and the management of educational institutions but also reshape the spaces and subjects of higher education. How are digital technologies and platforms reconfiguring student learning experiences, relationships between students and faculty, and the wider transnational education markets that sustain educational institutions and student mobility flows?
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31 Oct 2020, All aspects of HE can benefit from transformation, US, https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20201027100758775
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