Editorial

University learning and teaching, conversations during study, artificial intelligence, plagiarism, and academic  freedom are questions under which the contributions of  this special issue address the transformations of academic  culture in the face of digitalization. What is in  transformation, however, has not stopped to be in  transformation. In constructivist terms, the authors take  the chance of a second-order observation. Whether we are  only in a transitory stage or have already reached another  stage of development, depends also on the awareness with  which we engage in the processes of digitalization. The  volume presents ideas how to rethink the challenges of the  future from new angles and contributes to the scientific  examination of ad hoc digitalization during the pandemic.