Teachers' Attitudes Towards Employing E-Learning to Achieve Quality Standards in The Educational Process at The Primary Stage

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the role of e-learning in developing effective communication skills among primary school students from the teachers’ point of view and to the degree of readiness of teachers of the first basic stage in government schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to employ e-learning by researching the degree of their attitudes towards e-learning, and the level of Their competencies in using it, as well as the degree of obstacles to its application from their point of view, in addition to recognizing the role of a number of variables in their degree of readiness.

 The study adopted the descriptive analytical approach, and the study community consisted of teachers of the first primary stage in government schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study sample consisted of (120) teachers by cluster random method. The questionnaire was used as a tool for data collection after verifying its validity and reliability, and it consisted of several distributed paragraphs. It is divided into three domains: the domain of competencies, the domain of trends, and the domain of obstacles. The study reached the following results:

• The total score for the three domains (competencies، attitudes، and obstacles) was high.
• There are no statistically significant differences in the two domains (attitudes and obstacles) due to the variables: age، daily use of the Internet، and number of courses in the field of information technology. While there are statistically significant differences in the domain (competencies) due to these variables.