PMID- 33746557
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20240404
IS  - 1360-2357 (Print)
IS  - 1573-7608 (Electronic)
IS  - 1360-2357 (Linking)
VI  - 26
IP  - 4
DP  - 2021
TI  - The challenges of instructors' and students' attitudes in digital transformation: 
      A case study of Saudi Universities.
PG  - 4647-4662
LID - 10.1007/s10639-021-10491-6 [doi]
AB  - Digital Transformation (DT) has become the core motivator for almost all 
      organizations worldwide. In order to cope up with the new demands, Higher 
      Education Institutions (HEIs) are also giving due consideration to digitizing 
      their services, including pedagogical services. Many challenges are being faced 
      during the successful adoption of DT strategies and plans. One of the main 
      obstacles is the set of challenges related to the stakeholders in HEIs; more 
      precisely, instructors and students. This paper extracts, synthesizes, 
      categorizes, and prioritizes the challenges hindering the success of DT in Saudi 
      universities. Firstly, the paper extracts the main challenges faced by 
      instructors and students, and then constructs a model of the challenges based on 
      the tripartite classification of attitude. The paper adopts a Multi-Criteria 
      Decision Making (MCDM) Method, called the Analytic Network Process (ANP), for the 
      purpose of gathering instructors' and students' evaluations and prioritizing 
      their challenges accordingly. A total of 25 instructors and students were 
      recruited from various HEIs in Saudi Arabia to evaluate the model. The results 
      show that learning performance, lack of access to resources, and fear of change 
      are the most significant factors hindering students towards successful adoption 
      of DT. On the other hand, fear of change followed by lack of experience and 
      privacy concerns are the most significant factors hindering instructors towards 
      successful adoption of DT. The research is intended to enlighten decision-makers 
      in Saudi HEIs to consider non-technical challenges while planning for digitizing 
      HEIs services.
CI  - (c) The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 
      part of Springer Nature 2021.
FAU - Alhubaishy, Abdulaziz
AU  - Alhubaishy A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2093-4495
AD  - College of Computing and Informatics, Saudi Electronic University, Riyadh, 11673 
      Saudi Arabia. GRID: grid.449598.d. ISNI: 0000 0004 4659 9645
FAU - Aljuhani, Abdulmajeed
AU  - Aljuhani A
AD  - College of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah University, Medina, Saudi 
      Arabia. GRID: grid.412892.4. ISNI: 0000 0004 1754 9358
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210316
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Educ Inf Technol (Dordr)
JT  - Education and information technologies
JID - 101705199
PMC - PMC7963467
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - DT challenges
OT  - DT strategies
OT  - Digital transformation
OT  - Digitalization
OT  - Saudi Universities
EDAT- 2021/03/23 06:00
MHDA- 2021/03/23 06:01
PMCR- 2021/03/16
CRDT- 2021/03/22 08:05
PHST- 2020/12/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/03/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/03/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/03/23 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/03/22 08:05 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/03/16 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10491 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s10639-021-10491-6 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Educ Inf Technol (Dordr). 2021;26(4):4647-4662. doi: 10.1007/s10639-021-10491-6. 
      Epub 2021 Mar 16.