Digital Transformation in Education: resilient to a new health crisis now?

The Digital Transformation within the Dutch higher education has gone through a revolution on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. The entire higher education suddenly needed to be provided digitally. Since the higher education institutions were not digitally resilient before the crisis started, several digital products were rapidly introduced to be able to keep the education going. Online communication tools, virtual classrooms and online exam environments have been widely implemented. This digital transformation has, however, not passed by without any troubles; there was no experience among education institutions with this situation. Due to the high pressure, most institutes however still succeeded in providing education online successfully. In the end, it can be concluded that due to the accelerated digital transformation within the Dutch higher education, the digital resilience of this sector has considerably improved. This research looks deeper into the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the digital transformation of the Dutch higher education and therefore to what extent higher education is digitally resilient to new health crises now