Discussing digital transformation and distance learning in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the Corona pandemic, with reference to the experience of Imam Abdul Rahman bin Faisal University
Written by: Mona Abu Al-Atta Halim. Loyalty Magdy Rizk
Research Summary
The discussion of digital transformation and distance learning begins by emphasizing that the Corona pandemic is one of the most difficult crises that the world has witnessed and has affected many economic and social aspects in various aspects of life, as the pandemic has rearranged various priorities, including the educational process and the applied systems.
Research on digital transformation and distance learning reminds us that the entire world has been forced to recalculate its approach to dealing with it. Distance education was one of the solutions adopted by all competent authorities in the world with the closure of schools and universities in more than 61 countries to protect societies from the spread of the epidemic. The new changes in light of Corona highlight the importance of e-learning and the necessity of promoting it and placing it within education strategies even after the end of the pandemic.
The research on digital transformation and distance learning adds that with the global technological development in light of the massive digital transformation it is witnessing and the great development in information technology, communication and networks, striving towards developing the education sector in general and university education in particular and adopting e-learning has become a necessary and important requirement in the coming period. The most important priorities for countries that seek to achieve prosperity and economic development. Research on digital transformation and distance learning indicates that there are many experiences that have proven the success of using e-learning in improving the quality of educational performance. E-learning also had a group of influential aspects in developing the performance of universities, as A number of universities have achieved remarkable progress, both quantitatively and qualitatively, in this aspect.
Research on digital transformation and distance learning indicates that the Corona pandemic has demonstrated the existence of a strong technological infrastructure in the Kingdom capable of dealing with crises in all of the country’s service and economic sectors. The pandemic has also demonstrated the readiness of the educational systems in the Kingdom to shift towards distance education with the number and presence of a clear strategy at the Ministry. Education and the speed of response to the conditions of closure, as well as the readiness and adaptation of teachers to work in new ways, teaching via distance education and adapting teaching methods to the conditions and requirements of the pandemic, as teachers were more interactive with information and communications than others in many other countries.
The aim of the research on digital transformation and distance learning is to identify the digital transformation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the extent of its readiness to carry out the process of distance education and confront the Corona pandemic and the future role of this transformation and its importance in improving the performance of universities and developing them. The study relied on the descriptive and analytical methodology, and the study reached a number Among the most important results is that digital transformation and e-learning have become an important and basic requirement, and that paying attention to the technological structure and working to modernize it has become one of the important issues that everyone must take into consideration during the next stage. The study showed a number of important recommendations for decision makers, including adopting continuous training projects for faculty members to use modern technology, overcoming the challenges facing the use of e-learning, such as the weak level of Internet networks, the weak level of students in dealing with modern technologies, and the lack of their motivation and response to this type of education through Supporting digital culture in society, providing the necessary financial allocations and working towards increasing investments in technological infrastructure and its continuous modernization, concluding partnerships and agreements with advanced universities to provide training and developing e-learning tools and applications, linking Saudi universities to a unified communication network and linking universities to a communication network among themselves to exchange knowledge and experiences. And information that contributes to the development of academic staff members and their knowledge of everything new and the latest technological means in these universities.
DocSuite is a set of applications that facilitate collaboration and document sharing over the Internet, and it plays an important role in digital transformation and distance learning in several ways:
1. Remote Collaboration: DocSuite allows individuals and organizations to easily collaborate on the same property and documents online, making remote collaborative work easy.
2. Sharing documents: Users can easily share documents with others and adjust access permissions, which contributes to distance learning and the exchange of educational materials.
3. Access from anywhere: Doc Suite can be accessed from anywhere and via any device connected to the Internet, which contributes to saving time and effort for distance learning.
4. Online education tools: Applications such as Google Drive and Google Classroom provide tools for online education, which helps teachers and students organize and manage educational processes remotely.
Overall, DocSuite enhances the effectiveness of distance learning and contributes to digital transformation by facilitating effective and flexible collaboration and sharing of educational materials.
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