The influence of resilience on the digital resilience of higher education students: Preliminary insights

Abstract

The rapid digital transformation and the COVID19 pandemic have altered the teaching and learning processes of higher education students. However, despite the use of more digital instruments and methodologies, their use alone does not guarantee greater success in digital education, and students who have greater personal resources such as resilience tend to obtain better results. To balance the effects of digital transformation, digital resilience emerges as a way of absorbing disruptive situations at a digital level. A conceptual model proposal will be presented. In this context, this study aims to assess the influence of higher education students’ resilience as a personal resource on digital resilience and how age and gender impact this resilience. In this way, this study is an important contribution to the literature on this topic.