Educational Requirements for Digital Education in Kuwait In Light of Some Contemporary Societal Challenges (The Emerging Corona Virus as A Model)

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Department of Fundamentals of Education. Faculty of Education in Qena. South Valley University, Egypt.

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The study aimed to determine the educational requirements for digital education in Kuwait in the light of some contemporary societal challenges (the emerging corona virus as a model). The study was applied to a sample of (348) male and female teachers distributed according to the variables of gender (males / females), specialization (legal / linguistic / cultural) and educational stage (secondary / intermediate / primary). The results indicated that the approval of the study sample members on all the proposed requirements for digital education in Kuwait in the light of some contemporary societal challenges (the emerging corona virus as a model) was high in all axes, and the results also indicated the absence of statistically significant differences in the responses of the study sample due to the variables of gender and specialization. , while there were differences attributed to the stage variable in favor of the secondary stage compared to the intermediate and primary stages.
 
 

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