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From arts to zoom - artistic and creative education in the COVID19 quarantine period (economic, legal and cultural perspectives)

Educational processes in March 2020 were moved to digital platforms worldwide, due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The process of instant digital transformation in the higher education system was realized without significant preparation, leaving teachers and students in a vacuum, forced to look for alternative methods of indoor teaching, as well as of practical teaching, in the virtual space. The summer semester of the academic year 2019/2020 at Croatian universities was mostly finished completely digitally, with certain exceptions where teaching could not be fully realized in digital forms. Global epidemiological projections for the second half of 2020 and 2021 (winter semester of the 2020/2021 academic year) announce a certain return of the pandemic and a high probability of the re-closure to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Some of the world's universities have already started preparations for the online classes, during the summer semester of 2020, so they can be prepared in the winter semester of the upcoming academic year. Temporary quarantine regimes until an effective vaccine or cure for a new coronavirus is found will also involve the occasional (or more permanent) relocation of teaching processes to virtual classrooms. The paper analyzes the economic impacts, legal foundations and cultural and social perspectives left by the transition to distance learning in higher education institutions at the global, national and regional levels, with special emphasis on higher education in the field of art and creativity. The paper also provides an overview of trends in the digital transformation of artistic and cultural higher education, analyzes its advantages, and disadvantages, and suggests an effective hypothetical model of creative education in a virtual environment. Guidelines are also being set, for amending legislation in the field of education, in order to adapt the system to possible recurrences of emergencies and for the new digital epoch.

online education ; higher education ; COVID-19 ; economics of education ; education law

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