Saudi Arabia The Ministry of Education King Abdulaziz University

Graduate educational program

Master of Educational Technology

Readings on Education in English

EDUC-602

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Dr. Abdulellah Alsulaimani Ashrar Qudsis

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Article#1Bringula, R. P., & Basa, R. S. (2011) .

Factors Affecting Faculty Web Portal Usability. Educational Technology & Society, 14 (4),253–265.

http://search.proquest.com/education/docview/1287031505/CE7714900BD6422BPQ/1?accountid=142908

a gateway to information and services from multiple sources with a database that helps users store, locate, and retrieve learning; such as Yahoo!, Excite, and Lycos .

“Factors Affecting Faculty Web Portal Usability”

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online Research Ease of Navigation

Information Content Academic Transactions

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Aesthetics Availability

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The authors conclude statistically that the most factor affect the ability to use the portals is Aesthetics.

“Factors Affecting Faculty Web Portal Usability”

As a Master degree students, Online Research and Academic Transactions are more important factors .

Gabriel Bánesz. (2012) .EDUTECH Portal: Methodical Help For Teaching Technics.Technologia Vzdelavania, 1–9.

Article#2

http://search.proquest.com/education/docview/1243041735/CE7714900BD6422BPQ/7?accountid=142908

The purpose of this web portal is to communicate the departments preparing future teachers of the subject Technics and pedagogical praxis . One of the possibilities offered the use of the modern ICT technologies for creating a system that would be utilized for the communication between the university and the pedagogical practice .

The website contents teaching aids, methodical materials, job sheets, animation, and videos. The website provides:

–a consultation activities among the participants. –immediate transfer of the newest research outputs into the practice.

–availability of information for teacher training..

“EDUTECH Portal: Methodical Help For Teaching Technics”

For the administrative and expert support the organizational structure was chosen as follows:-Guarantees of the website

- Website admin - Publishers

- Authors of the content - Registered users

-Unregistered users

I hope this Slovak experience applying in our education and establish a web portal that match pedagogy with technology.

“EDUTECH Portal: Methodical Help For Teaching Technics”