The Management of Digital Transformation in Higher Education: An Assessment Proposal

The impacts of the current digital era are growing more and more on the way in which higher education (HE) offers learning programs at every level. Smart learning (SL) represents the evolution of educational approaches and techniques that capitalizes on all the opportunities deriving from new digital ecosystems. This study argues that the usefulness of HE can benefit from rethinking the traditional active learning (AL) model to smart ones. Thus, this research aims at investigating how to adapt the performance evaluation when the operations of HE turn to digitalized models. Therefore, this paper designs a research approach that allows accounting for the effects that the adoption of some SL strategies and tools has on the engagement of students and the aggregate performance of HE programs that adopt AL. The results of this study would help academics and HE managers assess the effectiveness of SL initiatives they plan to adopt.