Journal Article

Evaluating E-Books in the University Skills Course

Al-Shamrani, Saleh Abdullah

2025

Overview

The study aimed to identify the reality of the interactive E-book for the University Skills Course, and the problems and obstacles that trainers and students face when using. The sample of the research was made up of 60 trainers and 364 students, in which the trainer's survey was sent electronically through the university email to the trainers; the student's survey was sent electronically through the interactive E-book to the students who were studying the required course during the second term of the year 2023/2024. The results of the study showed that the variable \"number of years that the trainer has taught the required courses\" had an effect upon achieving complete benefit from the interactive E-book for the students. The positive aspects of this are many, including the availability of Power Points Presentations, exams, training sessions, and information resources; and an increase in student participation; and handing in their projects through the Blackboard system, which reinforces interaction between the trainer and student. The students reported that they benefitted from the components of the interactive E-book and from the interactive tools that were available on Blackboard. The study also showed some of the problems that trainers and students faced during the use of the interactive E-book. The most important problems were insufficient training on how to use the interactive E-book. The study concluded with some recommendations, the most prominent of which is training the trainers on how to benefit from the contents of the interactive E-book, on preparing academic contents for it, on methods for using electronic learning strategies that are included in the program, and including learning activities for the students to be carried out during the training sessions.

• Publisher: جامعة الزقازيق - كلية التربية
• Subject: التعليم الرقمي / الحقيبة التفاعلية / تكنولوجيا التعليم / طلبة الجامعات