Public Policy and Digital Transformation in Higher Education

There is evidence that the Brazilian population is among the countries that have the most access to the Internet, although it is unequal in terms of the type of network and bandwidth for educational purposes. For some decades now, the executive branch has been devising public policies in order to improve the teaching and learning process with the application of information and communication technologies. In this chapter, a critical descriptive approach carried out, about public policies and the digital transformation in higher education, in the country, where higher initial education training takes place in the various areas of knowledge. In this cut, the findings pointed to the application of information and communication technologies aimed at expanding and diversifying access to higher education, through programs and projects by the Ministry of Education. From the analyses, this study concluded that the government intended to improve educational processes by adhering to digital government to strengthen the competencies of units linked to the MEC. However, there is evidence of the incipient maturity in the digital government of education, which tends to weaken the democratization of access, expansion, and quality of the offer of higher education in the country. In this context, digital transformation in higher education is recommended as a State public policy.