Faculty’s Satisfaction Degree of Distance Training on Using Blogs in Teaching During the Pandemic

Abstract

Within the framework of the effort to prevent infection with the Corona virus and as a precautionary measure to preserve the safety of both sides of the educational process, many Arab countries have resorted to distance education. Saudi universities, including Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, have responded to the developments caused by the pandemic by moving towards electronic training, by employing all infrastructure and strategies to shift to e-learning and distance education. This is due to the knowledge of these universities of the importance of continuing training, which is a major factor in the development of the university’s inputs; this reflects positively on the quality of the outputs. This study came to examine the degree of satisfaction of IAU members with the online training provided to them on the use of blogs in education during the pandemic, and whether there are statistically significant differences in the degree of IAU members’ satisfaction with the training as a whole due to a number of variables, using the descriptive approach, and the distribution of a questionnaire to (35) members who attended the training, and the data was analyzed using the SPSS program. The study found that the degree of members’ satisfaction with the training provided to them online on the use of blogs in education during the pandemic is very high in all fields, and the fields were arranged in descending order as follows: the field of the trainer, the content. There were statistically significant differences in the degree of members’ satisfaction with training in favor of the trainer. The study recommended the adoption of training for all members of the university so that the benefit would prevail.