Digital Transformation and Its Impact on Yemeni Higher Education from the Perspective of Students of the Faculty of Education, Taiz University

Abstract

Although digital transformation is often associated with business institutions, it has become associated with higher education institutions in general, and Yemeni higher education in particular, from the point of view of students of the Faculty of Education at Taiz University, and some challenges are raised that must be taken into account when determining digital policies and strategies. In order to study the digitization of Yemeni higher education, and its experience in particular, this study aimed to know the digital transformation and its technologies, and to understand the factors that affect the digitization of higher education and universities in order to positively transform to technology, provide capabilities, facilitate transactions, and evaluate performance, via the Internet. In this study, a random sample of students of the Faculty of Education at Taiz University was used, numbering (500) out of (3000) male and female students, and the AMOS 18 program was used to analyze data, and determine the relationships between the factors of digital transformation in thinking, digital transformation in technology, digital transformation in management, digital transformation among students, and digital transformation in academic curricula. A brief discussion was conducted on the main challenges of digital transformation in Yemeni higher education institutions, and the results showed that the hypotheses were fully accepted, as the module achieved excellent results in the factors with 58% of digital transformation in management, 52% of digital transformation in curricula, and 63% of digital transformation among students.