Smart University Readiness Assessment within Disruptive Technologies

Disruptive technology is an innovation that significantly alters the way that consumers, industries, or businesses operate. A disruptive technology sweeps away the systems or habits it replaces because it has attributes that are recognizably superior.Disruptive technologies are making positive impacts not only on business processes but also the digital transformation of organizations. Smart University is an emerging and rapidly growing area that represents a creative integration of smart technologies, smart features, smart software and hardware systems, smart pedagogy, smart curricula, smart learning and academic analytics, and various branches of computer science and computer engineering. The aim of this research is to recognize the smart University technologies and present a model for the assessment of smart University readiness. This research is an applied one, and has been carried out in three phases. Based on the previous studies, in the first phase research experts evaluate disruptive technologies by Delphi method. The expert panel consists of 13 faculty members who were active in information technology field. In the second phase the enabled technologies are ranked by fuzzy AHP. In the final phase the readiness model is designed and the presented model would be tested in a sample University. The research results showed that the educational technologies, internet of things and augmented reality had the most prominence in a smart University.