The availability of the skills competencies to design electronic courses among specialized faculty members in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the availability of e-course design competencies among faculty members specializing in educational technology in some Saudi universities. The researcher used the descriptive survey approach and designed a questionnaire that included 47 e-course design competencies. It was then applied to a sample of (61) faculty members in the Department of Educational Technology in some Saudi universities. The results of the study indicated that the availability of e-course design competencies among faculty members is high, as the total arithmetic averages of e-course design competencies as a whole reached (4.12), where design competencies and e-course implementation and management competencies came first with an arithmetic average of (4.24), analysis competencies came in second place with an arithmetic average of (4.21), and evaluation competencies came in third place with an arithmetic average of (3.97). Finally, production competencies came in fourth place with an arithmetic average of (3.95), and all competencies had a high degree of availability. The results also revealed that there were no statistically significant differences attributed to the gender variable, while there were statistically significant differences attributed to the academic rank variable, in favor of the associate professor rank. There were also statistically significant differences attributed to the experience variable, in favor of members with more than (15) years of experience. The study reached recommendations, the most important of which are: benefiting from the list of e-course design competencies that were reached in the study in evaluating and training faculty members in the Department of Educational Technology on them.