Obstacles of using e-learning as perceived by the teaching Staff at Al-Balqa'a Applied University

This study aims at exploring the obstacles of using e-learning as perceived by the teaching staff at Al-Balqa'a Applied University, and defining the influence of a staff's being specialized and having an ICDL certificate on these obstacles. In order to have this aim attained, the study adopted the Analytical Descriptive Model for which a questionnaire, after having been confirmed in terms of credibility and constancy, was developed consisting of (24) items. This questionnaire was distributed to a population of (96) teaching staff at Irbid University College and AlHusn University College.

The degree of faculty members’ satisfaction’s on academic and applied campus climate at Jordanian universities: A Comparative study

This study aims to evaluate the faculty members’ satisfaction’s (270 faculty members) on the campus climate at academic and applied universities in Jordan as perceived by faculty members. Also, it aims to investigate the effect of gender, academic rank, and experience factors in evaluating campus climate. By using an arithmetic mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, and t-test to investigate the indication of the study sample response, the study concludes that evaluation of campus climate at academic and applied universities as perceived by faculty members is, in general, medium. Faculty members were more satisfied in applied campus climate than academic climate. Based on the t-test analysis, differences in campus climate were found for academic rank, experience in higher education. But there were no differences for gender. Finally implications for practice are provided for higher education institutions to improve campus climate.

Professional Growth Methods for Staff Members at Al-Balqa'a Applied University in the areas of teaching and Scientific research

The aim of this study was to identify the professional growth programmers for staff members at Al-Balqa'a University. It also aimed to find out the effect of sex, qualification, specialization, experience and academic grade on the methods of vocational growth for staff members at Al-Baqka'a Applied University. The study specifically attempted to answer these two questions: What is the professional growth method used by staff members at Al-Balqa'a Applied University? Is there a significant difference on the professional growth methods due to sex, qualification, specialization, experience and academic grade from their points of view?