Digital literacy and the attitude of educators towards MOOC platform in GCC countries
This study is pursued to identify the digital literacy level required to implement Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) by educators in higher education institutions (HEIs) of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. It is also intended to determine the attitude of educators in GCC towards the adoptio...
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| description | This study is pursued to identify the digital literacy level required to implement Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) by educators in higher education institutions (HEIs) of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. It is also intended to determine the attitude of educators in GCC towards the adoption of MOOC as a prospective e-learning initiative in education. In the light of that, proposing a unified GCC MOOC platform based on the information obtained is also considered as one of the main aspects to carry out as part of this study. MOOC is adopted by few higher education institutions in the Gulf countries; however, very little researches have been conducted to highlight the importance of digital literacy on educators' attitude towards educational technologies initiatives in GCC countries. There are also rare studies that cover the attitude of educators towards the adoption of MOOC in GCC. Most of the studies focus on the perception and attitude of learners and users but not the educators. This study will utilize “Digital Literacy Scale” (DLS) to measure the level of digital literacy of educators. While “Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology” (UTAUT) model is adapted to identify the attitude of educators towards MOOC as an e-learning platform. Consequently, this will lead to proposing a unified MOOC for GCC countries. Questionnaires will be administered on a sample of educators from universities and colleges in GCC countries that apply MOOC. In addition, observations and focus group interviews will be implemented to answer the questions of this study. |
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| spelling | iium-823212020-08-19T08:35:18Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/82321/ Digital literacy and the attitude of educators towards MOOC platform in GCC countries AlQaidoom, Hana Shah, Asadullah LB1044 Internet in Education T Technology (General) This study is pursued to identify the digital literacy level required to implement Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) by educators in higher education institutions (HEIs) of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. It is also intended to determine the attitude of educators in GCC towards the adoption of MOOC as a prospective e-learning initiative in education. In the light of that, proposing a unified GCC MOOC platform based on the information obtained is also considered as one of the main aspects to carry out as part of this study. MOOC is adopted by few higher education institutions in the Gulf countries; however, very little researches have been conducted to highlight the importance of digital literacy on educators' attitude towards educational technologies initiatives in GCC countries. There are also rare studies that cover the attitude of educators towards the adoption of MOOC in GCC. Most of the studies focus on the perception and attitude of learners and users but not the educators. This study will utilize “Digital Literacy Scale” (DLS) to measure the level of digital literacy of educators. While “Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology” (UTAUT) model is adapted to identify the attitude of educators towards MOOC as an e-learning platform. Consequently, this will lead to proposing a unified MOOC for GCC countries. Questionnaires will be administered on a sample of educators from universities and colleges in GCC countries that apply MOOC. In addition, observations and focus group interviews will be implemented to answer the questions of this study. IEEE 2019-06 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/82321/1/82321_Digital%20literacy%20and%20the%20attitude%20of%20educators.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/82321/2/82321_Digital%20literacy%20and%20the%20attitude%20of%20educators_SCOPUS.pdf AlQaidoom, Hana and Shah, Asadullah (2019) Digital literacy and the attitude of educators towards MOOC platform in GCC countries. In: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Innovative Research and Development (ICIRD 2019), 28th-30th June 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9074637 10.1109/ICIRD47319.2019.9074637 |
| spellingShingle | LB1044 Internet in Education T Technology (General) AlQaidoom, Hana Shah, Asadullah Digital literacy and the attitude of educators towards MOOC platform in GCC countries |
| title | Digital literacy and the attitude of educators towards MOOC platform in GCC countries |
| title_full | Digital literacy and the attitude of educators towards MOOC platform in GCC countries |
| title_fullStr | Digital literacy and the attitude of educators towards MOOC platform in GCC countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digital literacy and the attitude of educators towards MOOC platform in GCC countries |
| title_short | Digital literacy and the attitude of educators towards MOOC platform in GCC countries |
| title_sort | digital literacy and the attitude of educators towards mooc platform in gcc countries |
| topic | LB1044 Internet in Education T Technology (General) |
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