Course Website as Potential Positive Impact of New Technologies on Higher Education Systems

Abstract

The main category in the education system was to know how to read and write. In the future, however the backbone of the education system will be the optimal use of new technology to achieve the high quality and quantity of the product of education sectors. No doubt that the indication of literacy will not be the reading and writing any more but the level of ability to get the right piece of information in the shortest way and shortest time using the internet which will prove to be the 21st century equivalent of the calculator. Adding technology to education system has been a top priority at a lot of institutions since the use of the technology in the education sector is no more an option but it is a strategy. There is a lot of universities and schools that have adopted the technology in the learning environment. The starting point was with virtual course then virtual class and virtual colleges and finally virtual universities. Adopting the new technologies can change the traditional teacher centered approach to student centered approach, and thus may contribute so much to improving the quality of the learning environment. In this paper, the main point is how to use the new technology, namely the course website, for the sake of effective and high quality learning in engineering schools. It has mentioned one example which is the website of an engineering course, mechanical vibrations, of King Abdulaziz University to show the main characteristics of the active and dynamic course website