معايير التعليم الإلكتروني

1.1 Leadership

الوصف

A clear plan is in place to ensure the availability of sustainable financial resources to support the online training and raise its efficiency to achieve high quality.

المتطلبات

Providing the resource adequacy plan report and clarify its support for sustainability over time, in accordance with the institution's strategic plan, vision and mission.

الوصف

A comprehensive and coherent online training strategy is in place, which includes vision mission, strategic goals, and operational objectives of online training and is consistent with the institution's plan

المتطلبات

Published link for the online training strategy approved by a competent authority and consistent with the institution’s plan

الوصف

Providing a plan for adherence to integrity within the online training environment that includes the policy of the training institution regarding any identity theft or fraud with a mechanism that helps in preventing these violations. The plan should also include the training institution’s policies regarding identity theft of the trainee or engaging in fraud in the online training.

المتطلبات

1- Providing clear policies and laws for academic integrity published on the institution's official website.
2- Providing a mechanism for checking trainees' work and preventing fraud and identity theft.

دليل الاسترشاد

الوصف

Monitoring the digital content up-to-datedness and ensure that it does not violate national laws and policies. This can be done by developing a plan and assigning specialists to periodically review the content (conduct at least an annual monitoring process).

المتطلبات

Acknowledgment that the electronic content presented in the program is up-to-date and that it does not violate national laws and policies.

الوصف

The institution adheres to the principles of protecting intellectual property rights and the rights to publish digital content on its platforms. In addition, the institution should clarify the intellectual property policies for its staff and ensure that the intellectual property policies are followed during the training. Also, all online courses must be checked to ensure that they are free from intellectual property violations.

المتطلبات

Acknowledgment to adhere to the principles of intellectual property rights and copyright and publish them.

دليل الاسترشاد

الوصف

Providing a policy that ensure synchronous online attendance through virtual classrooms is equivalent to regular attendance, considering that the online attendance hours through virtual classrooms is at a minimum of 25% of the course credit hours when providing training in the asynchronous eLearning mode. In the case of blended learning, the same percentage (whether virtual or regular attendance) is calculated for programs that last more than a month. The number of trainees allowed in synchronous virtual classroom in programs that last more than a month is 25 trainees for each instructor, and it can be increased by 25% based on: 1- The training course type 2- Activities and interaction 3- The instructor's experience in providing online training The number of trainees allowed in synchronous virtual classroom in programs that last less than a month is 25 trainees, and it can be increased by 25% based on: (The training course type, activities and interaction and the instructor's experience in providing online training). If the number of enrolled trainees increases between (26-50), instructor assistant should be assigned to the instructor. For numbers above 50 trainees, an assistant instructor is counted for every 50 trainees, and the percentage (25%) is not allowed when the number of trainees exceeds 50. As for asynchronous training in programs of less than a month, there is no upper limit for the number of trainees.

المتطلبات

1- Providing a policy indicating that online attendance is equivalent to regular attendance, and the minimum percentage of the synchronous attendance hours is (not less than 25%) when providing the training program in asynchronous eLearning or blended modes in programs that last for more than a month.
2- Acknowledgment to not to exceed the allowed number of trainees.

دليل الاسترشاد

الوصف

The institution provides tools to measure the beneficiary’s satisfaction with the online training programs, and the mechanism for feedback and complains.

المتطلبات

1-Providing a tool to measure the level of beneficiary’s satisfaction (instructors, trainers) with online training program.
2- Providing a mechanism for feedback and complains.

دليل الاسترشاد

الوصف

Managing online training resources in accordance to the budget regulations and accounting principles approved by the Ministry of Finance

المتطلبات

External auditor report

الوصف

A clear plan is in place to ensure the availability of sustainable financial resources to support the online training and raise its efficiency to achieve high quality.

المتطلبات

Providing the resource adequacy plan report and clarify its support for sustainability over time, in accordance with the institution's strategic plan, vision and mission.

1.2 Technology

الوصف

Providing the necessary and resilient technical infrastructure that supports the online training and the number of the users within the institution.

المتطلبات

1- Providing system technical infrastructure specifications document.
2- Acknowledgment to provide a resilient technical infrastructure that support systems, the number of beneficiaries and all types of content without interruption

دليل الاسترشاد

الوصف

Achieving the privacy and protection of the beneficiaries' data, ensuring that it is stored, and that it is only viewed by specialists and those with authority, and not to publish and share it with any party or persons who are not entitled to access this data. Writing a privacy guarantee document and publishing it on the institution's official website is also required to ensure that all users know how to collect and store data and who has the authority to access this data.

المتطلبات

Publishing privacy and usage policies on the institution's official website and acknowledge to guarantee the users privacy.

الوصف

Providing a single sign-on (SSO) platform for beneficiaries to access all online learning systems, and ensure security and protection of the online training system and beneficiaries data.

المتطلبات

1-Providing a document contains login data (username, password) , and links for online training systems.
2- A report explaining the system protection mechanism and the techniques used to protect online training systems

الوصف

The use of systems to verify the identity of the beneficiary when accessing the learning management systems and online training systems. The identity of the beneficiary can be verified by allow access to the systems only by using the national ID number or through two steps authentication.

المتطلبات

Document explaining the identity verification mechanisms and systems.

دليل الاسترشاد

الوصف

Providing a learning management system, or training platform considering the following: 1- If synchronous training is offered, virtual classes that are technically linked to the learning management system/training platform should be provided. 2- Providing systems for exams if they are conducted electronically

المتطلبات

Learning Management System\Training Platform link.

دليل الاسترشاد

الوصف

Providing learning management systems and training systems that support computers (such as: Mac OS and Windows (with various browsers) such as: Google Chrome, Safari, and others), smartphones and tablets with different operating systems (IOS and Android systems) and different screen sizes.

المتطلبات

Acknowledgement to use eLearning systems that support various types of devices with different operating systems and are compatible with all devices' screens, including tablets and smartphones.

الوصف

Providing learning management systems and training systems that support computers (such as: Mac OS and Windows (with various browsers) such as: Google Chrome, Safari, and others), smartphones and tablets with different operating systems (IOS and Android systems) and different screen sizes.

المتطلبات

Acknowledgement to use eLearning systems that support various types of devices with different operating systems and are compatible with all devices' screens, including tablets and smartphones.

الوصف

Commitment to provide applications for all institution`s online training systems on smart phones application stores, the most important of which are (Apple Store) and (Google Play).

المتطلبات

1-Link to the application of approved systems on Apple Store
2- Link to the application of the approved systems on Google Play Store

الوصف

Providing alert service in the learning management systems to notify the trainee of the requirements on an ongoing basis to improve the continuity of training and to monitor the tasks and assignments in the course. This is mandatory for training programs that last for more than one month, and optional for the ones last less than one month.

المتطلبات

Providing alert service in the learning management systems to notify the trainee of the requirements for training programs that last for more than one month, and this is optional for the ones last less than one month.

دليل الاسترشاد

الوصف

Providing a search tool for the digital content in the learning management systems and training systems (such as: Cloud repository and digital libraries) to enable the trainee to search for digital content and get accurate results.

المتطلبات

Providing a search tool for the digital content in the system.

دليل الاسترشاد

الوصف

The institution’s commitment to consider trainees with disabilities, and its online training systems meet their needs.

المتطلبات

A document includes the login information (Username, Password) for LMS demo account.