College courses intended to help undergraduate students understand the ideas, benefits, and challenges of diversity are required at many U.S. universities. Intended learning outcomes for these courses are often set by the institution and interpreted by faculty, whose diversity-r…
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This study explores the research productivity of Addis Ababa University (AAU) faculty. AAU was established in 1950 and is the oldest modern higher educational institution in Ethiopia. Recently AAU took steps to transform itself to become a pre-eminent African research university…
Kazakhstan's higher education system is based on the Soviet governance structure, limited academic freedom and no autonomy from the state. In such a system faculties are contract employees delivering predesigned courses with no incentive to bring new ideas and methods. But emplo…
This dissertation examined the relationship between general work motivation and the motivation for using instructional technology by university faculty in their teaching. Data for the study were collected from a sample of 157 faculty members. Confirmatory factor analysis was emp…
The purpose of this study is to examine the validity and reliability of the Sultan Qaboos University Course and Teaching Survey form (SQU CTS). The study investigates three major issues: the comparison between the reliability and validity of the old and the new SQU CTS forms, in…
The purpose of this study is to investigate and describe factors of job satisfaction of faculty members in colleges of technology in Saudi Arabia, with the ultimate goal of suggesting some remedies and ideas that may contribute to the enhancement of faculty performance. For the …
This study examines the establishment of private universities in Saudi Arabia, through exploring public university faculty members' perceptions. Ten faculty members at Saudi Arabia's leading university were interviewed for their perceptions about a variety of issues regarding th…
The purpose of this study is to compare the attitudes of faculty members and elementary social studies teachers toward the elementary social studies preparation program at United Arab Emirates University in the United Arab Emirates. Seventy faculty members and seventy elementary…
The purpose of this study was to investigate both faculty and administrator attitudes toward online courses and the variables which correlated with their attitudes to determine how this affects faculty and administrator support for implementation of online courses in their insti…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between individual factors, reinforcement factor, departmental factors, and institutional factors, to the research and publication productivity levels of LIS faculty members in Saudi Arabian universities. Personal intervi…
The theoretical framework for this study was based on Rogers' model for the diffusion of an innovation. The aim of the study was to determine Rogers' attributes of the Internet as perceived by Saudi faculty members for academic purposes and how their perception can be used to pr…
Today, institutions of higher education in Saudi Arabia are faced with the problems of overcrowded enrollment and lack of sufficient facilities to provide appropriate educational services to the country's qualified students. Many students do not have access to higher education b…
The purpose of this study was to describe the adoption and use of Internet technologies by faculty members in Saudi Arabian universities. The study attempted to: (1) determine the pattern of Internet use by faculty members in Saudi Arabian universities, (2) answer specific quest…
A mix of qualitative and quantitative research methods are used to describe the current state of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) departments of four government-funded universities in Saudi Arabia. Responses to a questionnaire…
The government of Saudi Arabia has great interest in preparing its citizens to fulfill the requirements of the Kingdom's ambitious development plans by expanding its educational initiatives. In order to do this, a plan has been implemented to examine technical education and the …
The present study expanded Tang and Sarsfield-Baldwin (1996) study and tested the hypotheses stating that perceive justice (distributive and procedural justice) in performance appraisal is related to: performance appraisal satisfaction, job satisfaction, organizational commitmen…
This study aims to investigate the perceptions of the faculty and senior students at Al Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University in Saudi Arabia on the importance of selected behaviors related to effective teaching and to examine if there are differences between the faculty and…
There is no question that technology skills will be essential in ever-increasing portions of the labor market of the twenty-first century. Consequently, colleges and universities would be doing a major disservice to their students if they failed to provide appropriate opportunit…
E-learning is currently viewed by Arab government officials as a viable solution to their educational problems (UNESCO, 2002b; Bubtana, 2003; Aldhafeeri & Almulla, 2006). As a result, significant investments by local, regional, and international organizations have been made to i…