DIGITAL EDUCATION: GOVERNMENTS? STRATEGIES, TEACHING TOOLS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND A CASE STUDY OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN BUDAPEST

This article reviews some governments' strategies in the field of digital education especially during the recent pandemic period in the European Union. It includes some early lessons from the COVID-19 crisis. Besides, the authors cover various essential remote teaching tools for organizing effective virtual courses by evaluating and analyzing e-learning and distance education in terms of threats, challenges, opportunities, strengths, and weaknesses. Finally, this study presents a methodology with two hypotheses using SPSS statistics v26 to perform a survey on the effect of digital transformation. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Budapest, the participants' perceptions of the disease and the efficiency of the enforced restrictions to curb its spread were studied. The study methodology includes statistical data and analytical outcomes.