Saudi Academic Perceptions of e-Learning Systems [Microsoft Excel workbook]
| aut.relation.journal | International Journal of Learning Technology | en_NZ |
| aut.researcher | Thorpe, Stephen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Thorpe, SJ | en_NZ |
| dc.contributor.author | Alsuwayed, HM | en_NZ |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-03T00:41:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-03T00:41:14Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2019-12-31 | en_NZ |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-12-31 | en_NZ |
| dc.description.abstract | The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has seen growing interest in the uptake of cloud-based educational technologies in the university sector in recent years. The majority of delivery models are currently structured on a client-server based provision and typically utilizing Blackboard or Moodle with some choosing a Learning Management System (LMS) designed for Arab countries (Al-Dali et al., 2013). Many universities are interested in leveraging the potential benefits offered by cloud computing and are exploring the potential to migrate their e-Learning service provision into the cloud. A cloud computing architecture for e-Learning would see a university move from maintaining the hardware and licensed software resources needed for e-Learning systems onsite to an outsourced set of IT services provided over the Internet on a shared and scalable infrastructure. In order to better understand the potential of cloud-based opportunities, it was considered important to first investigate the experiences of staff in their current use of e-Learning systems. This article aims to broadly contribute to a better understanding of the academic perceptions of learning and value in e-Learning systems in higher education, and in particular within the Saudi Arabian context. A survey was undertaken to explore whether current e-Learning systems were serving tertiary learning requirements as articulated by those academics teaching and providing the e-Learning services in Saudi Arabian universities. The online survey collected 55 full responses. Findings contrast earlier studies critical of the country’s e-Learning provision and suggest that Saudi Arabian universities now appear to have sound e-Learning infrastructure in place. Shifting e-Learning services into the cloud was identified as a new opportunity that may allow academics to leverage the benefits of cloud technologies and to address some of the challenges they face. | en_NZ |
| dc.identifier.citation | Thorpe, SJ. & Alsuwayed, HM (2019). Saudi Academic Perceptions of e-Learning Systems [Microsoft Excel workbook]. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10292/12624 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1477-8386 | en_NZ |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10292/12624 | |
| dc.language | English | en_NZ |
| dc.relation.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10292/12624 | |
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| dc.rights.accessrights | OpenAccess | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Cloud computing | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | e-Learning | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Learning systems | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Saudi Arabia | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Educational technologies | en_NZ |
| dc.title | Saudi Academic Perceptions of e-Learning Systems [Microsoft Excel workbook] | en_NZ |
| dc.type | Other Form of Assessable Output | |
| pubs.elements-id | 357696 | |
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