ABSTRACT
Advances in digital technologies have already transformed numerous industries, leading scholars to predict that online learning technologies would cause similar disruption in higher education. While these predictions have yet to be realized, will the COVID-19 pandemic change the situation? This conceptual chapter draws from the authors’ complementary expertise in entrepreneurship, pedagogy, business, and higher education organizational theory to address this question from complementary perspectives. While highlighting the potential of the COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate disruption for higher education, the results of this analysis also help us better understand the potential implications of the continuing growth of online learning. Implications for universities include leveraging the current experience to inform innovations that could potentially strengthen their institutions and lead them to thrive in the future.
