THE COVID PANDEMIC : TRANSFORMATION OF UIA’s PEDAGOGY -A CASE STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Master's thesis in Global Development and Planning (UT505) In the 2020, the ‘World Learning Summit (WLS)’ addressed the challenges for higher education posed by the COVID 19 pandemic. An international conference gathering educators, entrepreneurs, managers and researchers from a wide range of countries, discussed the “reset” of higher education. The conference did so with a positive emphasis. This article represented the cross-sectional analysis of UiA’s transformation during the pandemic, through virtual interviews within prominent departments of UIA. The scope of the study is to understand the digital transformation of higher education within Norway, through understanding the factors affe…