An overview of the department

The Graduate Program in Education Technology at the university is designed to meet the needs of students who wish to pursue their higher education and help them develop academically and professionally in their field of work. Upon completion of the program, graduates become qualified to keep up with the rapid advancements in the field of educational technology, and achieve their long-term goals in occupying senior administrative, technological, and leadership positions.

Department Vision

The department vision is to be distinguished in enabling teachers to employ technology in the educational process, excel in courses and programs specialized in educational technology to meet international standards and contribute to creating a knowledge-based society, and the use of technology and information in various fields. 

Department Mission

The department's mission is to prepare teachers to employ technology in the educational process with confidence and effectiveness. 

Department Goals

Developing awareness of the importance of teaching and learning technology and its connection to the promotion of performance and activating the roles of human cadres, which leads to the development of societies

Contribute to finding a solution to many of the problems of public and university education in the world, which have accumulated as a result of the steady increase in the number of students in recent years, in order to limit the exacerbation of these problems, which negatively affect the education process among these problems are the problem of dropout from the educational system and the problem of no trace Learning as a result of the lack of use of modern technologies in teaching and learning

Keeping pace with the rapid development that the world has reached in educational and information technology and modern means of communication, which facilitates the processes of absorbing the developments of the times in this field, and facilitates the processes of civilized communication between peoples

Employing technical materials and devices in the development of the educational process

Highlighting the positive role of the educational method in improving education

Computer training to improve the level of education

Developing competitiveness in designing model lessons supported by modern technologies

Academic Nature of the Major

The program aims to prepare students scientifically and professionally, supported by modern technologies in study and teaching, by teaching them modern technologies in the field of education, and how to use technology in education.

Graduate work Areas

• The authorities responsible for planning, preparing, and developing the integration of technology into education in educational institutions in general and university education. 
•  Educational research centers responsible for planning, designing, producing, evaluating and developing educational technologies. 
• Teaching assistants in the college and community members (learning resource center specialists, teachers, and graduates of education colleges) wishing to continue their postgraduate studies in the field of educational technologies.
• Deanships and centers of e-learning and distance education in universities.
•  Centers for planning, designing, producing and integrating technology into education in various institutions.