The impact of the digital technological platforms on the institutional system of the higher education during the COVID 19 pandemic

Abstract

The article is devoted to the assessment of the impact of the digital technological platforms on the higher education in the new conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic. The modern literature presents the various approaches to the analysis of the current situation in the higher education. The novelty of the authors ’ approach is that the institutional system of the higher education is analyzed from the standpoint of the theories of new institutionalism. The authors considered the institutional system of the higher education as a four-level system. The article presents assessing the impact of the digital technological platforms on the first level of the institutional system of the higher education, which is represented by deeply rooted informal institutions (values, traditions, customs, unwritten norms and rules, and more). Assessing the impact of the digital technological platforms on other levels of the institutional system of the higher education requires the additional prospective research.