Information Technology Courses and their Adequacy for Graduates of Digital Media Programs in Arab Universities

Abstract

This paper focuses on studying the structure of the study plans for digital media programs and specializations in Arab universities and their learning outcomes, as well as the contents of IT courses and their adequacy for the graduate It poses its problematic question in two main points: Do the plans of digital media programs in Arab universities contain a sufficient number of IT and multimedia courses? And do these courses contain the skills required for the graduate in the use of IT and multimedia in his specialization? The study adopted a quantitative and qualitative content analysis approach with two categories of analysis the shape category; It focused on studying the structure of study plans for digital media programs and specializations, the ratio of IT courses to the rest of the courses, and the content category; It focused on analyzing the structure of the learning outcomes of the programs, the contents of IT courses, and their adequacy for the graduate of digital media programs. The study concluded: The study plans of digital media programs in Arab universities incorporated a large number of information technology and multimedia courses in their study plans. These focused on teaching students computer skills, multimedia, graphic design, and software skills for designing, directing and publishing media materials. A review of the literature pertaining to course descriptions, learning outcomes, course content, and weekly topics show that the courses have a strong focus on training students in the digital literacy skills necessary for the labor market in the digital environment, such as word processing, file management software, privacy settings in phones, creating text files and professional presentations, internet search, desktop publishing and digital graphic design, Digital photo editing and production, processing of audio and video, multimedia applications in the field of advertising and media marketing.