Abstract

Digital transformation has made administrators’ capacity to align technology, people, organizational culture, and institutional strategy increasingly important in vocational education.

These multiphase mixed methods aimed to (1) investigate the components of administrators’ digital skills; (2) explore the current and desired conditions of administrators’ digital skills and their priority needs; (3) construct and validate a development program; and (4) evaluate the program. The instruments were questionnaires, interview and focus-group discussion forms, and assessment and evaluation forms. Data were analyzed using means, standard deviations, the modified priority needs index (PNI modified), and content analysis. The findings were as follows. (1) Five components were identified: Constructing Digital Vision, Digital Technology Management, Creating a Digital Learning Organizational Culture, Establishing Digital Networks for Learning, and Digital Personnel Development. (2) Digital Technology Management was the very high-priority need (PNI modified = 0.448), followed by Creating a Digital Learning Organizational Culture (0.390), Digital Personnel Development (0.387), Establishing Digital Networks for Learning (0.367), and Constructing Digital Vision (0.359). (3) The 100-hour program comprises (a) principles, (b) objectives, (c) content in five modules, (d) implementation procedures, and (e) evaluation. (4) The program’s appropriateness, feasibility, and usefulness were rated at a very high level.

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