ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a higher education system's digital transformation by highlighting its vision, strategy, leadership and research on initial outcomes. Few comprehensive system-scale, evidence-based stories are available for higher education digital transformation. The transformation case study is a synthesis of multiple published studies focused on the year encompassing the planning and initial implementation of new technology in all institutions within a country's higher education system. The chapter summarizes the research studies that examined the initiative. The goal of national education leaders and higher education campus leaders during the United Arab Emirates mobile learning transformation was to create the conditions for increased active, engaged, student-centered learning as part of the national strategy to enact the country's education vision, which depended first on building leader and educator capacity.
