ISSN:1005-3026

THE ABILITY OF THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT TEACHERS TO PREPARE INTERACTIVE DIGITAL CONTENT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPORT (SYNCHRONOUS - ASYNCHRONOUS) FROM THE STUDENTS' POINT OF VIEW

1Ali Mahdi Sahib Al-Shamry ; 2Prof. Dr. Sadiq Obais Mankour Al Shafei

1,2 University of Kerbala / College of Education for Human Sciences / Department of History / Methods of teaching history

 ali.mahdi@s.uokerbala.edu.iq ;Sadiq.o@uokerbala.edu.i

Abstract

The current research study aims at measuring the level of ability of Ability of History Department Teachers to Prepare the Interactive Digital content and its Relation with the Technological Support (Concomitant and Non Concomitant) from the Students’ perspective in college of Education for human sciences / Karbala university from the Students’ perspective. The researcher followed the descriptive approach. The research community was represented by all students of history department of the daily study about 481 male and female students. The research sample was about 214 male and female students who were chosen by the random classified method. The researcher used the questionnaire to collect data and information, for the Interactive Digital content device was composed of 38 items distributed on three fields, while the technological support device was composed of 22 items distributed on two fields. The data was statistically analyzed to carry out the final results depending on the statistical package for the social sciences (spss).The researcher concluded that the ability level to prepare the Interactive Digital content device for the history department teachers/ Karbala university; In accord with responses of the research sample individuals, it was low score. The study also concluded that there are no differences of statistical sense to the research sample individuals concerning answering the questionnaire’s ability of items to prepare the Interactive Digital content device are due to the gender variable (male – female). Concerning the class variable, the results showed presence of differences of statistical sense to the benefit of the first year over other years. Concerning practicing of the technological support, in the Interactive Digital content device, it was middle degree. The research also concluded that there are no differences of statistical sense in the responses of the research sample individuals to the items of technological support due to the gender and class variables, In the light of the results that researcher reached at, he introduced a group of conclusions, recommendations, and suggestion that all were mentioned in the fifth chapter.

Keywords: ability, history department teachers, interactive digital content, technological support.