A Prospected Scenario for Developing the Teaching of Islamic Education Courses in Colleges of Education in the Light of the Requirements of Distance Education

Abstract

The current study aimed to uncover the views of faculty members on teaching Islamic education courses in colleges of education in light of the requirements of distance education, and to build a proposed conception for the development of teaching these courses. The study sample consisted of (92) members of the faculty of the Faculties of Education in Saudi universities who were chosen by the random cluster method, and to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher constructed a questionnaire consisting of (66) paragraphs within (4) axes and the validity and stability of the questionnaire was verified. Then the research data were collected and analyzed, and the results showed: that the opinions of faculty members about teaching Islamic education courses in light of the requirements of distance education came first within the focus of the course objectives, then the axis of evaluation and its tools came in the second rank, then the axis of educational activities and teaching methods and finally Course content focus. The results also showed that there are no statistically significant differences between the opinions of faculty members "attributed to the variable of gender and experience in university teaching." And in light of these results, the researcher presented a proposed scenario for the development of teaching Islamic education courses in the light of distance education.