Availability of technological innovations in the classrooms and their impact on developing the competencies of faculty members in Jordanian Universities

The study aimed to reveal the effectiveness of technological innovations in developing the Competencies of faculty members at Jordanian universities, in addition to revealing the impact of demographicVariables of faculty members on the effectiveness of technological innovations in developing their Competencies. The descriptive approach was used through a questionnaire which consisted of forty items distributed among 3 areas: the availability of technological innovations in classrooms, the employment of the technological innovations in the teaching process, and the faculties, members' competence in using technological innovations was built to measure the effectiveness and its main areas from faculty members’ perspective. Both validity and reliability of the questionnaire were verified. The sample of the study consisted of 400 faculty members out of 4,269faculty members in public and private universities (Jordan university, Yarmouk University, The Hashemite University, Mua`ta, private universities; Middle East, AL-Ahliya Amman  University, Applied Sciences, Jerash and Al-Zaytona university )  who were selected with the stratified cluster method