The Reality for Applying E-Learning Management System (Blackboard)According to Quality Matters Standards for Social Work Education in Saudi Arabia and Its Requirements to be applied in Egypt

Abstract

The current study aims to record the reality for applying e- learning management system (Bb)in accordance with the QM Standards at Faculty of Social Work, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, kingdom of Saudi Arabia and determining the obstacles facing application and the suggestions to overcome such obstacles to make use of this reality to transfer this expertise to the social work faculties in Egyptian universities. This can be achieved through determining the requirements to be available in social work education at Egyptian university to enable teaching faculties to apply system (Bb) in teaching social work. The study is administrated to all faculty members (N= 60) at Faculty of Social Work, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, as well as on the total population of faculty members (N=30) at faculty of social work at Helwan University in Egypt. The present study findings indicate the following: high compliance level of the faculty members to apply e-learning management system (Bb) in accordance with QM standards; the level of obstacles that hinder the application QM standards is average; and the level of the requirements to be provided to apply system (Bb) in social work education is high.