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Distinguished professional preparation of qualified personnel in the field of e-learning technologies, enabling them to master e-learning environments and instructional situations.
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| Course Code | Course | Credits | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDEP 650 | Theoretical Foundations of E- Learning and Distance Education | 3 | – |
| Description | This course addresses the knowledge, theoretical foundations, and skills related to e-learning. It covers the fundamental aspects of the theories of the educational-technology field and their applications in different contexts and environments, as well as instructional-design processes and technology-based teaching strategies, in addition to the most important educational problems that e-learning helps to solve. | ||
| EDEP 651 | The Digital Teacher and Virtual Learning Environments | 3 | – |
| Description | The course also covers the essential skills required of a digital teacher in e- learning environments, including the analysis, design, development, implementation, management, use, and evaluation of virtual learning environments. In addition, it examines the major human resources involved in e-learning, such as the e-learning coordinator, e-facilitator, learning management system administrator, and the learner within an e-learning system. This course addresses the different types of virtual learning environments — such as virtual museums, virtual libraries, Second Life sites, virtual laboratories, and virtual tours — focusing on the advantages, components, and key characteristics of each environment and the foundations for dealing with them. It also addresses the digital teacher's basic skills in e-learning environments — namely analyzing, designing, developing, implementing, using, managing, and evaluating virtual learning environments. The course presents the main types of human resources in e-learning, such as the e-coordinator, the e-facilitator, the e-learning system administrator, and the learner, and it examines the difference between the digital teacher and the virtual teacher. | ||
| EDEP 652 | Recent Trends in Online Education | 3 | – |
| Description | This course addresses the most important recent trends in online-learning processes and models, such as learning-management systems, virtual classrooms, virtual reality, and augmented reality. The course also aims to have students research, analyze, and undertake practical training to create and develop instructional situations in accordance with the recent trends related to online-learning processes. | ||
| EDEP 663 | Economics of E- Learning | 3 | – |
| Description | This course addresses the concepts, theories, and principles related to the economics of e-learning and distance education; the avenues of expenditure on e-learning and its financing methods; the technical foundations of the economic return on education; methods for determining internal efficiency and external needs; the causes of waste in some forms of e-learning; and the effect of this on rationalizing decisions related to financing e-learning and its various economics, in addition to reviewing the effect of e-learning economics on local content. | ||
| EDEP 664 | E-Learning for Individuals with Special Needs | 3 | – |
| Description | This course provides students with the knowledge and skills related to the basic concepts and definitions and the relevant e-learning technologies that assist individuals with special needs, in addition to the most important e-learning technologies that can be designed, produced, and developed for them; employing some of the electronic resources available to them; and the variables that affect the design and development of instructional materials in e- learning systems in light of the characteristics of learners with special needs. | ||
| EDEP 653 | Producing E-Learning Software | 3 | – |
| Description | This course addresses the various types of educational software — including multimedia software, virtual-reality software, and augmented-reality-based software. It reviews the standards for developing and using educational software and the most important programs and languages that can be relied upon to develop and produce it. The course also provides practical demonstrations related to the basic skills involved in developing e-learning software, how to collaborate in producing diverse software, and following the stages of educational-software development by distributing tasks among work teams across different projects for evaluation. | ||
| EDEP 696 | Quantitative Research Methods | 3 | – |
| Description | This course addresses the fundamental concepts of scientific research, the characteristics of scientific knowledge, and the importance and objectives of scientific research. It also covers the classification of scientific research, the steps of the scientific method, the elements of a research plan, the qualities of a good researcher, and the problems and obstacles of scientific research; the nature and development of quantitative research and the objectives of its use; the types, approaches, characteristics, and features of quantitative research; the design and components of quantitative research; quantitative-research methods; analyzing quantitative-research data and presenting its results; the trends and uses of quantitative research in e-learning research; and the theories supporting quantitative research. The student prepares a plan for a quantitative study as an applied activity. | ||
| EDEP 697 | Qualitative Research Methods | 3 | – |
| Description | This course addresses the fundamental concepts of qualitative research; the nature and development of qualitative research and the objectives of its use; the types, approaches, characteristics, and features of qualitative research; and the design and components of qualitative research. It also covers the methods and strategies of qualitative research, analyzing qualitative-research data and presenting its results, the theories and philosophies supporting qualitative research, and data-collection tools such as interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, discourse analysis, case studies, the phenomenological approach, grounded theory, and the narrative approach. | ||
| EDEP 657 | Data-Driven Decision Making in Education | 3 | – |
| Description | This course clarifies the crucial role of data in shaping educational policies and practices, as students explore the fundamental concepts of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data in different educational contexts. The course focuses on transforming raw data into actionable insights that can lead to improved educational outcomes. Through a combination of theoretical frameworks and practical applications, participants learn how to harness the power of data to make informed decisions that positively affect students, teachers, and educational institutions as a whole. The course is designed to promote analytical thinking, strategic planning, and ethical considerations in the use of educational data. | ||
| EDEP 658 | Contemporary Issues in E-Learning | 3 | – |
| Description | This course addresses the most important contemporary issues in the field of e- learning and distance education, including adaptive e-learning, gamification of e-learning systems, the shift toward mobile e-learning systems, converting electronic courses into three-dimensional (3D) courses, the shift toward the Internet of Things, and home-based e-learning. The course presents the key concepts and intellectual trends related to these issues and links them to reality; provides students with theoretical and applied information on them; trains students in methods of searching for scientific evidence to support e- learning issues from different perspectives and documenting them; and equips students with presentation skills for e-learning issues and discussing them before their peers. | ||
| EDEP 654 | Readings in E-Learning in English | 2 | – |
| Description | This course includes readings of scientific research, topics, and articles in the field of education in general and educational technology in particular in the English language, together with their translation and discussion; describing their objectives and research approaches and methods; an analytical reading of their results and of the recent trends related to them; extracting the specialized scientific terminology in the field of educational technology; and writing a report on them in English. | ||
| EDEP 693 | E-Learning and Distance Education Project | 3 | – |
| Description | This course addresses the fundamental concepts of managing and creating projects in e-learning and distance education; the main types of e-learning projects and their characteristics; methods of producing them and the software that can be relied upon to produce each project; the basic standards for launching educational projects in the field of educational technology; and acquiring the skills to use the MS Project management software and prepare a complete timeline for each stage of the project's development. | ||
| EDEP 692 | Research Seminar | 3 | EDEP 696 EDEP 697 |
| Description | This course addresses selected issues and problems in educational technology and how to approach them scientifically through the preparation of a research plan submitted by the students. These plans are discussed to ensure adherence to sound scientific-research methods, and are then developed into research projects. | ||
| EDEP 659 | Developing Educational Digital Games | 3 | – |
| Description | This course addresses the most important conceptual and theoretical foundations related to developing digital games and employing them in the educational process. It presents the main types of digital games and the standards for their development, and introduces students to the difference between games and gamification, the effect of gamification on the educational process, and the fundamental theories of games and gamification. Students explore the game elements that can be used in the educational process — whether in the virtual or the conventional environment — and learn the most important areas of games within augmented-, virtual-, and mixed-reality systems. | ||
| EDEP 660 | Developing Educational Digital Objects | 3 | – |
| Description | This course addresses the types of digital (learning) objects, their most important characteristics, and ways to employ them in instructional situations; the stages of instructional design for digital objects; the skills required to produce digital objects; the standards for digitizing objects and converting them from analog to digital form; the decision-making matrices for object digitization and the metadata for each digital object; and how to integrate digital objects within the various e-learning systems. | ||
| EDEP 655 | E-Learning and Distance Education Assessment Systems | 3 | – |
| Description | This course addresses the fundamental concepts of electronic-assessment processes and their most important methods and strategies, in addition to reviewing the main types of electronic-assessment systems and e-tests, electronic achievement portfolios (e-portfolios), electronic questionnaires, and electronic question banks, and the key characteristics of each system. The course also reviews the software and platforms that can be relied upon to develop electronic-assessment systems, the basic skills for producing them, how to convert conventional assessment systems into electronic ones, and forming integrated work teams to develop electronic-assessment environments and deliver project reports to interested parties. | ||
| EDEP 656 | Managing E-Learning and Distance Education Environments | 3 | – |
| Description | This course addresses the fundamental concepts of managing e-learning and distance-education environments; the most important standards for e-learning content management; the objectives of e-content management; the tools for developing e-content within learning-management systems; and the main approaches and strategies for e-content management (the proactive interactive, the progressive participatory, and the ontology-based approaches). It also covers the basic concepts, main types, and key features of e-content management systems; the management of mobile-learning content systems in terms of concept, characteristics, types, and standards; and the most important educational theories related to managing and organizing e-content within learning-management systems. | ||
| EDEP 698 | Applied Research Project | 3 | EDEP 692 |
| Description | This course addresses a set of research projects in the field of educational technology and teaching and learning resources in terms of their design, production, development, management, and evaluation. The student submits a research project addressing an educational problem that is discussed and defined in the research seminar, and defends it to confirm their mastery of research skills. | ||
| EDEP 661 | Digital Learning Resources | 3 | – |
| Description | This course addresses the conceptual framework of digital e-learning resources in terms of their concept and characteristics; the objectives of using e-learning resources and their educational functions; resource-based learning; the historical origins of e-learning resources; the theories and classification of digital e-learning resources; the description of digital resources (metadata); and the selection, evaluation, and employment standards of digital learning resources. | ||
| EDEP 662 | Digital Repositories | 3 | – |
| Description | This course addresses the conceptual framework of digital repositories in terms of their emergence and development; the concept, characteristics, objectives, and components of digital repositories; the difference between open and closed digital repositories; open access to information through digital repositories; digital-repository management systems; strategies for organizing digital repositories; and the instructional design of digital repositories. | ||
