Digital Transformation in Europe

This chapter focuses on the challenge of lifelong learning and guidance of new paradigms for higher education institutions. Universities are expected to play a new important role in providing innovative teaching, learning processes, and counselling services to help people navigate the recurrent transitions throughout their lives. Based on these assumptions, this chapter aims to provide: (a) a theoretical framework which illustrates the recent evolutions of organizational models and the implications of digital transformation on them, with particular reference to universities; (b) an overview of the state-of-play of European policies and initiatives related to HE, with particular attention to the evolution, progress, and development of the HE field in terms of digitalization (online as well as blended teaching and learning); (c) a focus on the role of digital skills concerning competences for life, with the presentation of the main European competences frameworks.