| King Khalid University | |
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| جامعة الملك خالد | |
| General Info. | |
| PO Box 3236, Abha, Saudi Arabia | |
| Established | 1999 |
| Type | Public University |
| Location | Abha, Saudi Arabia |
| Phone | (0096672290992) |
| Website | www.kku.edu.sa |
| Global Membership | IEEE. |
King Khalid University (KKU) (Arabic: جامعة الملك خالد) is a public university ,located in Abha, in the Asir region of Saudi Arabia. a city located in the southwest of the country. On July 26, 1998, King Saud University and Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University merged to became King Khalid University.
Response to a 1998 royal decree by His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister since that, which authorized the integration of two branches of King Saud University and Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. This heralded the inauguration of a new scientific era, and the initiation of the Saudi University within the system of higher education to further contribute to growth and development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
King Khalid University is a rapidly growing institution of higher education in Saudi Arabia. With around 70,000 students, it is one of the biggest centers of learning in the Middle East region with a reputation as a major provider of both further and higher education. The eLearning Center (eLC) at KKU was established in 2005 as part of the university’s continuous efforts to provide the latest scientific methodologies to improve the educational process.
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The university offers eLearning at KKU and inculcate learning to more than 70 thousands of students. Coordinating with international standards and sector leading players practices, eLearning in KKU have been approved at three levels: - web facilitated - blended, and - full.
The web facilitated level has already started the second semester of the academic year 1429 - 1430.
e-Learning Infrastructure at KKU[2]:
The e-Learning Center has a world-class technology infrastructure to support eLearning and eKnowledge processes at KKU. Students, faculty members, and administrators achieve authorized/authenticated access through the center portal to a robust, fully integrated Learning Management System (LMS) and supporting applications and knowledge resources which extracts data from the Student InformationSystems (SIS), and in the future the KKU library, and Blackboard’s e-Portfolio. It also is supported by the Classroom Capture Application, Authoring Tools, e-Assessments, Virtual Classroom Tools, and a highly capable Learning Object Repository (LOR) that can share learning objects drawn from a variety of international open learning resources and content providers.