Challenges and Threats of Higher Education in the Area of Digitization

In the article, the author discusses problems that universities will face in the future if they donot take up the challenges and fail to start preventing threats associated with the development oftechnology. The future for universities entails further development of digital technology and theexpansion of artificial intelligence. Therefore, it is necessary to move away from stereotypes andat least try to apply new teaching methods employing to the extent possible, synchronous andasynchronous methods. In view of the above, the author adopted the following research problem:What challenges and threats await higher education in the era of modern digitization? The aim ofthe article is to identify and analyze the changing conditions in the context of shaping the securityenvironment in higher education, determining appropriate needs and values that, without properdiagnosis, may cause a development or an educational crisis. Theoretical methods such as analysis,synthesis, inference and analysis of existing data were used to solve the research problem, mainlyon the basis of data from the Statistics Poland and an international survey conducted by AlessiPaccagnini from the University of Dublin. Preliminary results of the study have shown that insome sciences, synchronous and asynchronous teaching methods will be the leading ones, whichwill make it possible for us to educate students of all ages. The author, based on an analysis ofexisting data, points out to universities that if they do not start cooperation at the interdepartmentaland intersectoral level, the private sector may take the initiative and gain a leading role in digitaleducation.