INDIAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Received: 05-06-2020 Accepted: 01-07-2020 Published: 21-07-2020 Editor: Dr. Natarajan Gajendran Citation: Tayyib NA, Ramaiah P, Alshmemri MS, Alsolami FJ, Lind- say GM, Alsulami SA, Asfour HI (2020) Faculty members' readiness implementing e-learning in higher education Saudi Universities: A cross-sectional study. Indian Journal of Science and Technology 13(25): 2558-2564. https://doi.org/ 10.17485/IJST/v13i25.828 * Corresponding author. Pushpamala Ramaiah Faculty of Nursing, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia prponaiah@uqu.edu.sa , aravindanadar@gmail.com Funding: None Competing Interests: None Copyright: © 2020 Tayyib, Ramaiah, Alshmemri, Alsolami, Lindsay, Alsulami, Asfour. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Published By Indian Society for Education and Environment (iSee) Faculty members' readiness implementing e-learning in higher education Saudi Universities: A cross-sectional study Nahla A Tayyib 1 , Pushpamala Ramaiah 1* , Mohammed S Alshmemri 1 , Fatmah J Alsolami 1 , Grace M Lindsay 1 , Sanaa A Alsulami 2 , Hayam I Asfour 1,3 1 Faculty of Nursing, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia 2 Faculty of Nursing, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah 3 Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt Abstract Background/ Objectives: This article reports on an e-learning readiness study that was carried out to determine the institutional, individual, and communication factors of the two major stakeholder groups (teachers and institutions) in the higher education universities in Saudi Arabia. Methods: A sample of 139 faculty members working in ten higher education universities in Saudi Arabia was surveyed in this cross-sectional study. A pre-validated survey questionnaire of e-learning was adopted to collect data from the participants' between April and May 2019. Findings: The pre-validated survey tool of Teachers' Readiness for Online Learning Measure (TROLM) of an 18 item scale has been explored in four factors: Communication self-efficacy, institutional support, self-directed learning, and learning-transfer self-efficacy. The findings of this study are instrumental in implementing successful e-learning resources (strategies) in Higher Education Institutions and will also benefit e-learning initiatives in similar institutions in other regions of Saudi Arabia and beyond. The Study demonstrated the supportive e-learning strategies Blackboard system that facilitated faculty members' readiness to teach university students during the sudden transition from traditional methods to the e-learning platforms. Keywords: Faculty members' readiness; higher education institutions; e-learning strategies; e-learning resources; information technology; institutional support 1 Introduction Saudi Arabia has been using the blended learning model for the past decade. It has been aided along by technological innovations and information and communication technology (ICT) development in the kingdom. Saudi government has made many eforts to enhance the use of Information and Communication Technology. Te outstanding eforts made by the Ministry of Higher Education are likely to lead the country to a better knowledge of society. https://www.indjst.org/ 2558