Investigating the IT Resources Key Factors in the Iraqi Higher Education Institutions: A Pilot Study

A. Fahad, A. Meri, A. Altaher, MA Dauwed, N. Hashim, Shumaila Omar
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Integrating the new technologies to improve the current educational systems makes it compulsory to the higher education institutions to get use of the current IT resources in order to be able to transform the traditional education ways into the e-learning sytems. In Iraq, there are some antecedents facing the higher education institutions regarding the utilization of e-learning systems. In this paper, the researchers proposed a model of a relationship in which a quantitative research design was chosen to verify the proposed factors and construct the relationship among them. The main factors that may affect the IT readiness was declared as three categories: organisation, communication, and technological structure. These three aspects were found to affect the IT capacity and IT capability of the organization that offer the e-learning systems in order to assess the actual use of these systems in the Iraqi higher education institutions. In order to verify that a designed questionnaire, that is reliable and free of errors, two steps of verifications has been followed up. Firstly, a validation phase in which, the questionnaire checked by a panel of experts in the field of e-learning, the comments received was followed up before proceeding to the second phase. Secondly, a pilot study was conducted to check the reliability of the instrument. The collected data has been analysed using the Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient reliability test in SPSS 24 software package. The results showed that all factors are reliable as they gained a value of 0.7 and above in the test.
调查伊拉克高等教育机构信息技术资源关键因素:一项试点研究
利用新技术改进现有的教育系统,使传统的教育方式向电子学习系统转变,就必须充分利用现有的信息技术资源。在伊拉克,高等教育机构在利用电子学习系统方面面临着一些先决条件。在本文中,研究人员提出了一个关系模型,其中选择了定量研究设计来验证所提出的因素并构建它们之间的关系。可能影响IT准备的主要因素被宣布为三类:组织、沟通和技术结构。为了评估这些系统在伊拉克高等教育机构中的实际使用情况,我们发现这三个方面会影响提供电子学习系统的组织的信息技术能力和信息技术能力。为了验证所设计的问卷是可靠的、没有错误的,我们进行了两个步骤的验证。首先是验证阶段,在进入第二阶段之前,由电子学习领域的专家小组检查问卷,并对收到的意见进行跟进。其次,进行了初步研究,以检查仪器的可靠性。收集的数据在SPSS 24软件包中使用Cronbach 's Alpha系数信度检验进行分析。结果表明,所有因素都是可靠的,它们在测试中获得了0.7及以上的值。
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