King Abdulaziz University’s female faculty’s perspectives regarding the effectiveness of using Blackboard on teaching and learning

Currently, increasing educational facilities, especially higher ones, implement e-learning to support or substitute traditional learning. Simultaneously, there exist multiple barriers and limitations for its successful application that should be assessed to ensure the development of e-learning that facilitates communication, considers learners’ differences, provides access to abundant information, and helps educators deliver materials. Thus, this qualitative research examined the university female faculty’s perspectives regarding the effectiveness of using Blackboard on teaching and learning. Using the narrative approach, it collected data through semi-structured interviews efficient for small-scale research. The participants were 12 female members of the Faculty of the College of Education at the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. For data reliability, sampling, methodology, design, and data analysis corresponded to the research subject and were appropriate for answering the research questions and drawing conclusions. The findings revealed the participants’ positive attitude toward using Blackboard. They also highlighted several factors that contribute to the improvement of teaching and learning at the graduate level, such as developing tools to support the research courses and focusing on achieving the students’ learning outcomes using Blackboard.