E-learning Success Factors from the Perspective of Academic Staff at Nursing and Education Colleges During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Study
Randa Mohamed Abobaker
Nursing Department, Al-Rayan Medical colleges, college of Health Science and NursingSherin Elsayed Khalil
Curricula and Teaching Methods department, College of Education, Hafr Al Batin University, Saudi Arabia, Faculty of Education, Mansoura University,Magda Mubarak Merghani
Nursing Department, College of Applied Medical Sciences -Hafr Al-Batin University, Saudi ArabiaAlia Mahadeen
Maternal and Child Health Nursing Department, School of Nursing-The University of JordanEyas Gaffar Abdelraheem
Department of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Economics and Quantitative Analysis, Shaqra University, College of Science and Human Studies, Saudi ArabiaAyman M. Hamdan-Mansour
Psychiatric Nursing, School of Nursing-The University of Jordan,Abstract
During the pandemic period of COVID-19, the use of electronic devices to enable teaching and learning, known as e-learning, was the most common format of education at all levels. Factors that interfered with academicians' ability to use e-learning successfully needed to be explored to enhance usefulness of teaching and learning and teaching outcomes. The present study aimed to evaluate E-learning critical success factors from the perspective of the academic staff at nursing and education faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic. A quantitative descriptive-correlational research design was used through a purposive sampling procedure to recruit 75 academicians from the Nursing and Education schools. Data was collected through an online questionnaire related to e-learning success factors (such as satisfaction level, knowledge acquisition, and knowledge transfer), from instructors’ perspectives towards e-learning and their sociodemographic characteristics. Data was analyzed using the SPSS-25 to compare the analyses of both groups of the study. The results illustrated a highly statistically significant difference was observed between the academic staff of both the colleges related to net benefits and institutional factors, where (P =<0.0001). The study recommends that a useful future extension of this research may allow looking at how critical success factors in education can be enhanced through comparing the two formats of education: the traditional and online educational. This study would have useful implications for higher education institutions and academics as there is a need to for them to be well exposed to the importance of e-learning as one of the alternatives to learning in the modern times of crises.