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Opportunities in Disruption: Higher Education in the Post COVID-19 Era

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Due to its ravaging impacts, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. Higher education institutions were not spared, as the pandemic and associated lockdown measures disrupted traditional knowledge transmission, leading to the quick adoption of online learning to protect students and ensure the continuity of education. The disruption proved challenging to higher education institutions, forcing instructors and students to quickly adapt to online education and its challenges during lockdown and isolation. However, and despite the challenges of online education, early evidence suggests that hybrid and blended modes of education will become the post-COVID-19 new normal for higher education. This chapter provides insight into some critical impacts and inherent opportunities in the disruption caused by COVID-19 in the higher education sector. Higher education institutions can capitalize on digitalization to enhance the students’ access to education, provide flexibility, and transform higher education in a technologically advanced, competitive, and unpredictable global environment.

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  1. Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    Abdallah Shanableh & Ahmad Shabib

  2. Department of Education, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    Semiyu Aderibigbe

  3. Institute of Leadership in Higher Education, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    Maher Omar

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Shanableh, A., Aderibigbe, S., Omar, M., Shabib, A. (2022). Opportunities in Disruption: Higher Education in the Post COVID-19 Era. In: Badran, A., Baydoun, E., Mesmar, J. (eds) Higher Education in the Arab World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07539-1_12

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