Management of digital transformation in the system of higher education: Global practice

Abstract

The article discusses various approaches to management processes in the era of digital transformation. Digital challenges in the post-pandemic period have updated new qualification requirements for the higher education system. The transition to distance forms of work, which demonstrated inconsistency in providing quality education, revealed the main problems beginning from a weak infrastructure to the lack of optimal ways of educational activity. The higher education system requires transformation to become competitive in the digital environment and be flexible in assimilating technological innovations. The paper presents the analysis of the main directions of digitalization of higher education with the determined priorities. The study is designed on the methods of bibliometric analysis — counting of the number of publications on a given topic, their content and thesaurus analyses. There were used the built-in tools for analyzing the national bibliographic database of scientific citations and closed systems for searching and machine analysis of large texts of the abstract-analytical system Dimensions.ai. The VOSviewer application was used for the content analysis of the terms, and the resources wordstat.ru and google.trends.com were used to calculate the statistics of requests of the key concepts. The results of the analysis identified a variety of transformational decisions that can be made only at the level of strategic management. System transformations may depend on the given external or internal framework regulated by different subjects of the educational process. The directions of development in the field of digital transformation also depend on the external and internal framework. The article proposes the use of the collegial management format which changes the scheme of interaction between the subjects of education.