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Social media adoption among university instructors in Saudi Arabia
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Alasfor, Khalid Abdulaziz |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | SOCIAL MEDIA ADOPTION AMONG UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTORS IN SAUDI ARABIA by KHALID ALASFOR December 2016 Advisor: Dr. Monica Tracey Major: Instructional Technology Degree: Doctor of Philosophy There is an orientation from the government of Saudi Arabia toward social media in general. The government of Saudi Arabia considers the significance of social media in educating the Saudi community. The Saudi Ministry of Education founded the National Center for ELearning and Distance Learning (NCeL) because it considered the importance of e-learning and distance learning for higher education (he.moe.gov.sa). NCeL supports and rewards university instructors to integrate social media in the learning process (award.elc.edu.sa). Moreover, Saudi students indicated positive attitudes toward social media in their learning and would prefer attending classes that university instructors use social media (Aifan, 2015). However, the adoption of social media for teaching students by university instructors in Saudi Arabia is unclear. A questionnaire was built based on Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations theory for the study purpose. 387 university instructors from all of the 28 Saudi public universities responded to the questionnaire. 47.5% of the participants were male university instructors, while 51.7% were female university instructors. .8% of the participants preferred not to disclose their gender. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2617&context=oa_dissertations |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
