The digitalization of higher education (HE) institutions and relevant issues have attracted the attention of many educational stakeholders. ICT has become a subject of high importance in every context, particularly in the workplace; thus, a principal goal for universities and schools is to prepare future professionals capable of dealing with problems and searching for effective solutions by their digital competence as a key skill. In this regard, a new framework is developed to evaluate the main drivers of digital transformation in higher education institutions (HEIs) in the era of industry 4.0. The developed framework is proposed a decision approach that can effectively use the presented information to make decisions of high rationality. This framework is applied to compute the subjective and objective criteria weights, and it is used to assess the preferences of organizations. An empirical case study to evaluate the main drivers for the implementation of digital transformation in HEIs is taken. According to the findings, the most significant drivers for the implementation of digital transformation in HEIs in the era of Industry 4.0 are developing, updating, and adapting a curriculum (0.0425), integration of digital technologies for universal education (0.0420), and cloud computing (0.0419), respectively. Hence, the evaluation results also show that the option higher education institution (HEI)-4 has the highest overall utility degree (1.845) over different drivers for the implementation of digital transformation in HEIs in the era of Industry 4.0. Also, comparison and sensitivity investigation are made to show the superiority of the developed framework.

高等教育（HE）机构的数字化及相关问题引起了众多教育利益相关者的关注。ICT 已成为各种情况下的一个高度重要的主题，特别是在工作场所；因此，大学和学校的一个主要目标是培养未来的专业人员，使其能够将数字能力作为一项关键技能来处理问题并寻求有效的解决方案。在这方面，开发了一个新框架来评估工业 4.0 时代高等教育机构 (HEI) 数字化转型的主要驱动力。开发的框架提出了一种决策方法，可以有效地利用所提供的信息做出高度合理的决策。该框架用于计算主观和客观标准权重，它用于评估组织的偏好。进行了一项实证案例研究，以评估高等教育机构实施数字化转型的主要驱动因素。根据调查结果，在工业 4.0 时代高等教育机构实施数字化转型的最重要驱动因素是课程的开发、更新和调整 (0.0425)、普及教育的数字技术集成 (0.0420) 和云计算(0.0419)，分别。因此，评估结果也表明，在工业4.0时代高校实施数字化转型的不同驱动因素中，选择高等教育机构（HEI）-4的综合效用度最高（1.845）。此外，还进行了比较和敏感性调查，以显示所开发框架的优越性。