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Preparing the University for Generation Alpha: A Research Agenda for the Digital Transformation of Higher Education

2026-07-31

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<p>Generation Alpha, a cohort growing up with smartphones and generative AI as ordinary features of everyday life, will soon enter a higher education system that is itself undergoing profound digital transformation. We argue that the central challenge of this transformation is not technological alone but human and that it is shaped by three fundamental tensions: upskilling vs. deskilling, autonomy vs. dependence,...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/w56pu_v1

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