A Framework for Moving from Traditional to Smart University

The revolution of technologies and communications pushed for smarter applications and services. A smart university has become a target for educational institutions in many countries in the last few years. The smart-university provides many advantages in all aspects: academic, administrative, and research. Transformation to a smart university will save time, effort, and cost, in addition to increasing the quality of services, users' satisfaction, and sustainability. This research provided reviewing study for the most important standards, services, applications, and tools that must be present in smart universities. Then, the research proposed a framework to transform universities into smart ones. In recent years, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is considered one of the leading countries in the field of digital transformation. So, in the next phase, we will try to apply the proposed framework in one of the KSA universities.