A Framework For A Scoping Review Of Digital Transformation Of Engineering Education

The digitalization of engineering education has made significant progress in recent years not only due to societal circumstances such as COVID-19, but also thanks to technological development and progress and digital transformation of engineering education seems more imminent than ever. This paper presents the development of a framework and process for an ongoing scoping review regarding frameworks for digital transformation of engineering education. Empirical studies on digital innovations in specific small-scale contexts are numerous and the literature is rich. This study, however, aims to identify more systematic and holistic approaches to digital transformation. At this stage the review work has resulted in 21 research papers for full-text screening from 4 databases, SCOPUS, ProQuest, Web of Science, and Engineering Village. The proposed framework facilitates analysis of how frameworks for digital transformation of engineering education are informed and conceptualized ideologically in the sense of what digitalization should do for engineering education and how they guide and facilitate digital transformation. The framework builds on and combines theory from educational and digital transformation research and enables elicitation of essential elements of digital transformation in an educational context, including ideologies, models, dimensions, actors, elements, and levels of digitalization.