The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has posed a recent threat to humanity that forced a global halt of social, academic and economic activities. This pandemic resulted in a tremendous revamp of traditional educational mode to digital platforms. To gain the acumen about favorable and unfavorable outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic, 19 semi-structured interviews were conducted from top-tier leaders (vice-chancellors, rectors, deans, chairman, directors, head of departments, etc.,) of public and private higher education institutions across Pakistan. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was adopted to analyze the qualitative data (includes perceptions, thoughts, feelings and experiences) about crisis-response migration to online education. Research verdicts demarcated the visionary initiatives of the higher education sector by transforming potential academic challenges into sustainable opportunities. It entails the provision of an online learning experience to novice and seasoned learners and faculty, overcoming the continuous academic distortion, and subsequently ensuring the renewal of educational procedures. The findings reported numerous challenges faced by academicians in crisis-response migration to online education. This research enriched the literature of online education/emergency remote learning in the era COVID-19 pandemic. This study also presented the way forward of educational digitalization for governing bodies and policymakers of the higher education sector.

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