Digital Empowerment and Ethical Reconstruction: The Substrate of Cooperative Action in Private Higher Education in the Digital Era

Currently, the entire society is experiencing systematic "digital disruption", and comprehensive digital transformation across all areas is the inevitable path to future development. As the foundation of people's livelihood, education, and higher education in particular, plays an important role in digital transformation and educational reform. Higher education is not only the driving force of digital transformation but also the main force of educational reform. When facing the impact of the digital wave, it should take the initiative to shoulder the responsibility of digital transformation and innovation, and actively lead educational reform. As an important part of higher education, private higher education also shoulders the important responsibility of promoting digital transformation. It is an important direction to promote social systematic digital transformation through the digital transformation of higher education, and it is a practical requirement to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of cooperation between private higher education and digital technology. With the deep integration of digital technology and cooperation between private higher education, the digital space is gradually taking shape, and ethical concerns are beginning to emerge. Through philosophical reflection and ethical examination of these ethical concerns in the digital space, it is found that these ethical concerns mainly stem from the absence of the ethical dimension of digital technology. Therefore, this study starts from two logical dimensions of digital empowerment and ethical reconstruction, based on the analysis of the internal interconnection between technology and ethics, and proposes that in promoting the digital transformation of cooperation between private higher education, we should not only fully utilize digital empowerment, but also reconstruct the action path of digital ethics.