Strengths, Weaknesses & The Potential Opportunities for The Employing Informatics in The Jordanian University Education from Education Colleges’ Students’ Perspective

Abstract

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the extent of employing informatics in the Jordanian university education from Education Colleges’ students’ perspective according to informatics resources, informatics software programs and informatics devices and to identify the strong and weak aspects in the reality, in addition to  the possible opportunities and threats. Moreover, the study aimed to reveal the differences in the respondents’ responses about employing informatics in the Jordanian university education according to gender and university variables. The sample of the study consisted of 150 students representing Education Colleges’ students in three Jordanian universities ( University of Jordan, Balqa Applied University, AL-Bayt University).  To achieve the study’s goals , the researchers adopted the descriptive approach and SWOT analysis.

The most significant results were as follows :

1) The level of employing informatics in the Jordanian university education was moderate with (62.7%). And the field of informatics devices came in the first rank followed respectively by the fields of informatics software and informatics resources.

2) There were statistically significant differences in the respondents’ responses about employing informatics in the Jordanian university education attributed to the variables : gender in favor of the male students and the university in favor of Balqa Applied University.

3) There were aspects of strength in employing informatics as : understanding the use of Internet to keep up with the latest publications in information. There were aspects of weakness in employing informatics as: lack of exchanging information with the professors through the e-blogs. Additionally, one of the possible  opportunities in employing informatics in the Jordanian university education is  the possible use of the electronic browsers in developing the scientific research skills.

In light of these results, the study recommended the necessity to develop , prepare and provide  the infrastructure of  technical informatics  in the Jordanian universities and to increase the interest of the real needs of the university informatics environment, in addition to the necessity of having a suitable strategy for employing the informatics in the Jordanian university education within the university’s whole strategy and following up its implementation and evaluation so as to achieve the university’s vision and its goals.