Abstract
With the advance in information technology, higher education institutes begun to transit from existing traditional teaching method alternate blackboard Learning Management System (LMS). In this context, western branch Colleges of Qassim University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the first-time started blackboard learning management system for e-learning in the academic year of 2016. At first stage of project, Deanship of E-Learning launched the e-courses for Islamic 101 and Islamic 102 at full online in the university and trained all faculties and students to the new e-course full level program. Based on the new developed full online courses, a survey was conducted in college of western branch in Qassim University regarding difficulties, limitations, faculty members and student’s satisfaction regarding blackboard LMS using full online course on campus. Detailed evaluation of survey concludes that devel-oped e-courses is a new step but required significant work for improvements.
Highlights
The global educational trend during the past decade is for face-to-face teaching, learning and communication to be replaced with e-learning
The main goal of the survey and information in this paper is to investigate the challenges which faculty members and students face in the new elearning Learning Management System (LMS) system, and identifies the limitations of the system so the necessary improvements can be made in the up-coming version of the system
The author evaluates the Blackboard Learn Learning Management System through a survey for the faculty members and students in the western branch colleges of Qassim University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on full online courses developed for e-learning in the academic year of 2016
Summary
The global educational trend during the past decade is for face-to-face teaching, learning and communication to be replaced with e-learning (electronic learning). Elearning features the use of an interface and website in which both faculty members and students can learn and communicate from anywhere in the world, with the use of a personal computer, laptop or even a smartphone. The author in [1] uses a combination of e-learning and online communication as a blended learning tool. The primary objective of this tool is to provide a proper interface to students and teachers for better learning [2]. Early e-learning has helped in reducing the distance between students and teachers through the use of an interface website on the internet. Before the introduction and advent of e-learning, it was impossible for both iJET ‒ Vol 15, No 15, 2020
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