Digital Maturity Framework for Higher Education Institutions

Digital technologies in educational institutions have the potential to be one of the main catalysts of quality education. The purpose of this paper is to analyse digital maturity frameworks, to describe the irdevelopment methodologies and to propose a Digital Maturity Framework for Higher Education Institutions (DMFHEI). The methodology for framework development consists of five main steps: literature search and data extraction ; two focus group analyses ; applying theQ-sorting method ; reviews by two experts ; and a summary of results. Results presented in this paper show that the DMFHEI has recognised seven areasthatcan bedivided into 43 describable elements.