دور مراكز تكنولوجيا التعليم في تقويم وتطوير التعليم المفتوح

Abstract

Abstract Research's Title: (Role of Centres of Learning Technology in Evaluation and Development of Open Learning). The research is endeavouring to identify what are the centres of learning technology, its significance and key role in facing up modern changes in field of learning, notably, in backing and upholding open learning. This comes at the top of the priorities of supporting this system with scientific researches which address the problems that encompass this system of learning in the present and the future. The research reviewed serviced and functions done by such centres, for instance, designing, production, providing different learning sources, continuous qualification and training and the key role of these centres is the ongoing development which based on continuous evaluation for all elements of the learning system, provision of comprehensive quality standards and to depend on open learning in this era (globalization era). As Sudan has recently" focused on distant learning and open learning, the knowledge of these systems is very limited and these new experiences require more scientific researches and studies that seek success factors and signal warning to places of weakness and failure through considering world experiences, advanced experiences and complete scientific studies in a way that find bases to these scientific rules and that was the overall goal of this research. The research reached to the outcome of the existence or non- existence of the centres of learning technology, particularly, in open learning and distant learning institutions and higher and general learning in general. The researcher followed the descriptive method in following up and studying prominent experiences in this regard and to prove the research's main axises. He selected a sample of university professors and holders of higher certificates in Khartoum State in the field of education in particular. Among the most significant results that the research concluded was non-existence of centres of learning technology in learning institution in Sudan in the limits of the research. Such centres are deemed a fundamental basic for open and distant learning. Based on what mentioned above, the researcher recommended the necessity of cooperation between universities in order to create centres for learning technology. Among his proposals, the researcher recommended conducting more researches on the role of these centres in advancing higher education and open learning to keep up with the current level of learning.