PERFORMANCE OF TEACHING STAFF AND STUDENTS TOWARD E-LEARNING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC PERIOD
The new learning trend has made it mandatory to equip teachers in educational institutions with the necessary skills to cope with the new challenges. Furthermore, E-learning education has recently received great attention in Saudi Arabia during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. The aim of the study was to assess the performance of teaching staff and students toward E-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic period. A descriptive faculty-student-based study was conducted at Jazan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 34 teaching staff and 276 students participated in the study by responding to the online questionnaire which tested their knowledge, skills, and attitude toward E-learning. Results showed most of the teaching staff had very good knowledge and skills and a strongly agreed attitude toward E-learning. Regarding the students, quarters of them had very weak knowledge, and good skills, and were either neutral or agreed attitude on E-Learning. This fact may be evidence of the potential of this orientation in the search for continuity of new learning for students. This study recommends developing virtual statistical analysis and data mining tools to find correlations among technical ability, E-learning knowledge, E learning skills, and attitudes among university students and teaching staff.
Performance, Teaching Staff, Students, E-learning, Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Period.