Design visualization for proposed training plan according to the ASSURE model for learning resource specialists in Muscat to employ Facebook to implementing modern marketing mechanisms for information services during the Corona Pandemic

Abstract

This article aims at providing a conceptual design of a training plan according to the ASSURE model for the learning resource specialists in the Governorate of Muscat to use Facebook to implement modern marketing mechanisms for information services in libraries and information centers during the period of the covid Pandemic. This article uses a content analysis methodology within the descriptive analytical method procedures. The researcher designed the following research tool (training course design evaluation list) to evaluate the training course after being implemented, the sample included all the learning resource specialists in the governorate of Muscat, (28 specialists). The study resulted in developing a design concept for a training plan directed to the learning resource specialists on how to use Facebook to achieve modern marketing mechanisms for information services in libraries and information centers during the Corona pandemic. This plan was made in light of the procedures of the ASSURE Model. The study also recommended the necessity for the designer to be careful in choosing the educational theory in which he will build the design model because it is the ground on which all steps are based, and the need to carefully take care of choosing and defining the design model through broadening the scope of readings and references of the available literature reviews and research's that dealt with this topic. The study also mentioned the necessity of tracking and using the latest and most recent digital applications that can meet the needs of the trainees and achieve their training objectives, and the necessity of carefully determining the evaluation mechanisms that the designer will follow in building the training model because the accurate evaluation process is by which a successful training model can be provided.