Evaluation of UDReady: A Tool for Measuring Digital Readiness in Higher Education

10 pages•Published: November 6, 2025

Zisis Manouskos, Irene-Angelica Chounta, Konstantinos Tsimpanis, Alejandro Ortega-Arranz, Sophia Daskalaki, Yannis Dimitriadis and Nikolaos Avouris

Abstract

This paper introduces UDReady (University Digitally Ready), an innovative tool designed to help universities assess their Digital Readiness, a critical step for identifying challenges and devising effective digital transformation strategies. Developed under the DigiReady+ project, UDReady applies a data-driven framework to support higher education institutions in evaluating their readiness levels. The paper also outlines the various approaches used to define the DigiReady+ indicators to measure digital readiness and details the mixed-methods evaluation of the UDReady tool. This evaluation involved three focus groups with key stakeholders from universities in Germany, Spain, and Greece, a heuristic review, and usability testing via the standard System Usability Scale questionnaire.

Keyphrases: digiready+ framework, digital readiness, higher education, udready platform

In: Laurence Desnos, Raimund Vogl, Lazaros Merakos, Carmen Diaz, Janina Mincer-Daszkiewicz and Stuart Mclellan (editors). Proceedings of EUNIS 2025 annual congress in Belfast, vol 107, pages 196-205.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/q2Rd
	https://doi.org/10.29007/grb9

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{EUNIS2025:Evaluation_UDReady_Tool_Measuring,
  author    = {Zisis Manouskos and Irene-Angelica Chounta and Konstantinos Tsimpanis and Alejandro Ortega-Arranz and Sophia Daskalaki and Yannis Dimitriadis and Nikolaos Avouris},
  title     = {Evaluation of UDReady: A Tool for Measuring Digital Readiness in Higher Education},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of EUNIS 2025 annual congress in Belfast},
  editor    = {Laurence Desnos and Raimund Vogl and Lazaros Merakos and Carmen Diaz and Janina Mincer-Daszkiewicz and Stuart Mclellan},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {107},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/q2Rd},
  doi       = {10.29007/grb9},
  pages     = {196-205},
  year      = {2025}}

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