The Role of distance learning via the Internet in Learning Programming: Learners' Point of View

Abstract

The current research aims toidentify the role of distance learning via the Internet in learning programming for fourth-preparatory school students, as it is their first experience in the field of learning and application in the 2018-2019 academic year.  one of the main reasons for resorting to this type of learning is the limited time of the weekly lessonof learning programming, within the computer lessons scheduled as one session per week for the fifth preparatory school students. This leads to deficiencies in some scientific aspects of programming, which are considered one of the most important demands of development and the needs of the present era that the learners must be adequately trained on. This experiment was applied to the community of 100 learners, by providing computerlessons for programming in the language of Visual Basic, in its sixth version, and sending those lessons through the educational group assigned to them through the simplest social media sites so that answers clarify the role of this learning from the sample consisting of 40 participants. Their opinions were obtained by applying the questionnaire. The research found that distance learning via the Internet has a significant role in achieving the goals that were set by the Ministry of Education for the computer subject, specifically the programming forthe fourth preparatory class, which included the skill, cognitive and emotional field. It was found that there is a high degree of accomplishment achieved by distance learning via the Internet was for the emotional domain. The study suggested a set of statements related to the interest in this type of learning and the pursuit of its development to be used in an ideal manner to help the learners.