Digital transformation, skills and education: A systematic literature review

Abstract

Digital transformation (DT) is raising new challenges. This article seeks to understand how DT has changed business strategies, requiring a new profile of professionals, analyzing the most sought-after skills and identifying opportunities for future professionals. Also, it studies whether universities have incorporated in their training the new skills required by the labor market impacted by DT. To these ends, a systematic literature review dealing with digital transformation, competence, and education was conducted. The existing literature was categorized into seven main areas of investigation: digital literacy; skills identification; use of digital technologies in teaching; learning models; workforce qualification or re-skilling; digital technologies in the labor market; and undergraduate course analysis. This structuring then lays the groundwork for capturing gaps in the literature and proposing future research. © The Author(s) 2023.

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Systematic literature review Competencies digital transformation education digital technologies

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Author Affiliations

REMIT, Universidade Portucalense Infante D.Henrique, Porto, Portugal

Universidade do Porto, Porto, Porto, Portugal

Funding & Acknowledgements

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT

Grant: UIDB/05105/2020, UIDB/04105/2020

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the FCT - Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the framework of the projects with reference UIDB/05105/2020 and UIDB/04105/2020.

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the FCT - Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the framework of the projects with reference UIDB/05105/2020 and UIDB/04105/2020.

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Digital transformation, skills and education: A systematic literature review

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