Acceleration of Digital Transformation of Education During COVID-19: A Comparative Study Between Developed and Developing Countries

Abstract

The COVID-19 epidemic has accelerated the digital transformation of society, causing changes in lifestyles in many nations. Digital technology has a significant potential to improve education since it empowers learning and provides learning chances that lead to access to more information. The first step in reducing inequality and transitioning to a digital economy is to improve everyone's access to technology, connection, and ICT infrastructure in education. The country's leading sector, businesses, and government are in charge of implementing the digitization process, which is now crucial to societal progress and daily living. However, education can boost workers' human capital and abilities, which raises labor productivity and contributes to the nation's economic growth. The problem of the study is that the educational institution had to deal with some issues like internet access availability and teachers' pressure to adjust to these changes rapidly. The Hypothesis of the study stated that the digitalization has positive impact on the economic growth.The study's primary goal is to examine how digital transformation might be used to address these issues. It also examines the tools and educational systems that support this process. Thus, the study will examine what aspects of the students' online lectures are effective as well as the challenges they encounter. (Alimov, R. 2007) described the shift to a digital economy is by as "a long process that will require significant investments and will correspond to current world trends." The study concluded that there is positive relation ship between digitalization and economic growth in both developed and developing countries.