Opportunities and Challenges in Implementing Distance Learning and e-Learning

2015 ◽  
pp. 329-345
Author(s):  
Jennifer Kasanda Sesabo ◽  
Rashid Mfaume ◽  
Dominik T. Msabila
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Demand For Education ◽  
Delivery Modes ◽  
Resource Investment ◽  
Effective Delivery ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University

In Tanzania, the growing demand for education due to massive enrolment in universities calls for adoption of Distance Learning (DL) and e-learning. Other factors for adoption include limited space and pace of learning, pedagogical weaknesses, and shortage of teaching staff. Mzumbe University also experiences the same as it operates satellite teaching centres of Morogoro town, Mbeya, Dar es Salaam, Tanga and Mwanza. This has made the university consider shifting from conventional delivery modes to alternative pedagogical strategies using Information and Communications Technology (ICT). The aim is to ensure effective delivery of quality education. There are opportunities and challenges. The challenges include absence of national and institutional quality assurance system framework on e-learning and distance education, and shortage of teaching staff and ICT facilities. Thus, universities need appropriate budget and resource investment to support capacity building for teaching staff and students, and formulating policies, guidelines and operational framework on distance learning and e-learning.

scholarly journals The necessary requirements needed for employing e. learning in the (teaching staff) in the faculty member of education, from the point of view of the teaching staff in sudan university

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hatem Abdel Maged El-Sadek , Rehab Bashir Hassan Al-Awad
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Educational Design ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Descriptive Method

The study aimed to identify the necessary requirements needed for employing e. learning in the (teaching staff) in the faculty memberof education, from the point of view of the teaching staff. In this study the researcher employed the analytical descriptive method and the size of the sample in which the study was applied was (127) individualsof the teaching staff with a degree of Assistant Professorand above The researcher has employed questionnaire technique as a study tool. The most important findings of the study are: The study has come to the fact that the majority of the researchers managed to answer the study areas which are summarized in (the requirements needed for employing e. learning by the teaching staff، which was specified by this study، these requirements are vitally important from the point of view of the teaching staff. The most important requirements for the use of e-learning in the university faculty member. It consists in possessing the competencies of preparing courses electronically, which means designing the content or electronic curriculum in accordance with the principles of educational design. The most important recommendations of the study are: Providing all the requirements needed to put e. learning into practice (for the teaching staff members) which was determine by the study to employ e. learning in the institutions of the higher education in Sudan.  

Development of E-Learning in Niger

2010 ◽  
pp. 114-125
Author(s):  
Aissetou Drame Yaye
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Course Delivery ◽  
Digital Campus ◽  
Virtual University ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Official Opening ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
The University

The University Abdou Moumouni (UAM) of Niamey in Niger mainly focused on traditional face to face learning, and even the existence of the African Virtual University since the years 1999 did not change the situation. It is only after the official opening at the University of the Francophone Digital Campus in December 2003 that lecturers and students started overseeing and taking advantages of all the benefits of e-Learning and distance learning. The present paper builds on the author’s personal initiatory experience in e-Learning to highlight some specific challenges that traditional universities such as the UAM face in their efforts to introduce e-Learning and distance learning as a new mode of course delivery. The study shows that even though challenges are big, political and institutional support can freshen the perspectives and change opportunities into realities.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF THE USE OF DISTANCE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS AT THE UNIVERSITY

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Ирина Геннадьевна Алмазова ◽  
Ирина Владимировна Кондакова ◽  
Наталья Александровна Нехороших
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Distance Learning Technologies ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Подчеркивается необходимость своевременного вычленения и качественного анализа проблем дистанционного обучения, учета предпочтений и интересов обучающихся и преподавателей вуза, консолидации их усилий по преодолению трудностей и решению проблем, связанных с объективными и субъективными ситуациями, особенностями использования технологий дистанционного обучения при организации образовательного процесса в университете. Описаны особенности использования дистанционной формы организации обучения в вузе. Приведены данные, полученные при исследовании (опросе) влияния применения технологий дистанционного обучения на здоровье студентов 1–5-го курсов очной и заочной формы обучения направления подготовки 44.03.05 Педагогическое образование (с двумя профилями подготовки) Института психологии и педагогики Елецкого государственного университета им. И. А. Бунина. The article describes the need for timely identification and qualitative analysis of the problems of distance learning, taking into account the preferences and interests of students and university teachers, consolidating their efforts to overcome difficulties and solve problems related to objective and subjective situations, the peculiarities of using distance learning technologies in the organization of the educational process at the university. In the current situation, burdened by the spread of a new coronavirus acute respiratory infection, which is caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (2019-nCoV), the world education system (including higher education) is forced to turn to distance learning technologies. These technologies allow you to work remotely, maintaining the necessary distance, protecting the health of people (both students, teachers, and employees of higher educational institutions), excluding their close interaction during training, scientific research, in the admission campaign, in extracurricular work, etc. The authors describe the features of using the remote form of organizing training at the university so that it contributes to the maximum saving of students ‘ health, has a positive effect on their physical and mental state; minimizes the viral load in a difficult epidemiological situation; increases and develops digital literacy of students; “opens” new opportunities for remote work for the teaching staff. The article provides the data obtained in the study (survey) of the impact of the use of distance learning technologies on the health of the full-time and part-time students of the 1st – 5th year of studies of the area of training 44.03.05 Pedagogical education (with two training profiles) of the Institute of Psychology and Pedagogy Bunin Yelets State University.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Training Program in Enhancing E-Assessment through Tablets and Smartphones: A Case Study of Saudi Arabia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Maajoon Alenezi
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University

This research assess the effects of training program based on the usage of the digital learning objects in teaching practice at the Northern Borders University staff. E Assessment through the tablets and smart phones and the teachers’ attitudes towards such way of evaluation is the major objective of this study as the researcher expects that the assessment mechanism in the university through utilization of tablets and smart phones and its application will inevitably bring in a systematic improvement in the assessment and evaluation process of the curricula. Moreover, making use of the e learning objects in training will make a significant change in e training program of the university. Hence, the researcher has chosen voluntary random samples from the university teaching staff (men\women) from various different faculties (medicine, medical sciences, science, education and arts, business administration, home economics, and science and literature). These samples included 300 members of the teaching staff. In a group of 20 to 25 members, a personal training was conducted regarding the usage of tablets and smart phones and its applications in the assessment process. Each group participated by producing a complete e-assessment for their students in the Northern Borders University and by the e learning system i.e. Blackboard and Question Mark. The research also depends on the semi-experimental design of multiple groups and on testing the groups’ pre and post achievement tests. In addition, the research identifies the level of the university teaching staff in using the tablets and the smartphones and its applications in the assessment process by the note card that the individuals have during the test.

scholarly journals CONDITIONS FOR ORGANIZATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS AT THE UNIVERSITY USING E-LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Ирина Геннадьевна Алмазова ◽  
Галина Александровна Корякина ◽  
Светлана Николаевна Числова
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Distant Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Distance Learning Technologies ◽  
The University

Анализируется проблема разработки, характеристики и реализации важного условия организации образовательного процесса в университете с применением технологий дистанционного обучения, связанного с созданием в университете качественной цифровой образовательной среды, развития технической инфраструктуры и повышения квалификации вузовских преподавателей с целью эффективного использования ими технологий дистанционного обучения в процессах цифровой трансформации высшей школы. Причем такое условие анализируется не только с позиции повышения эффективности организации исследуемого процесса, но и с позиции обеспечения деятельности вуза, отвечающей требованиям мировых стандартов, что чрезвычайно важно в формате реализуемой государственной программы Российской Федерации «Развитие образования» на 2018–2025 гг. Приводятся данные опроса студентов и преподавателей университета, освещающие результаты измерения уровня эффективности реализации проверяемого условия организации образовательного процесса в университете с применением технологий дистанционного обучения. The materials of this publication analyze the problem of development, characteristics and implementation of an important condition for the organization of the educational process at the university with the use of distance learning technologies, associated with the creation of a high-quality digital educational environment, the development of technical infrastructure and advanced training of university teachers in order to effectively use distance learning technologies in the processes of digital transformation of higher education. And a certain condition is analyzed not only from the perspective of improving the efficiency of the organization of the process under study, but the operations of the University that meets the requirements of world standards, which is extremely important in the format of the State program of the Russian Federation “Development of education” for 2018–2025. The results of study of the levels of effectiveness of the implementation of the conditions are tested and and the data of the questionnaire survey of students and teachers are provided. The article describes the terms “distant education” and “distant learning”. The synonymy of their meanings and the peculiarities of their use in the context of the characteristics of a special way of implementing the educational process at the university are noted. The features of the implementation of the selected condition that took place in 2020 are noted: flexibility in taking into account the time frame of classes and in choosing an individual pace of training; modularity; the use of various types of communication; wide coverage of the audience of students.

scholarly journals THE SYSTEM OF COOPERATION OF ACTORS IN OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
Pierre Benjamin Rakotomahenina ◽  
Olivier Origène Andriamasimanana
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Technical Staff ◽  
Open And Distance Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Participatory Observation ◽  
Fundamental Mechanism

The purpose of this article is to show the mechanism of cooperation at the level of teaching staff, students and administrative and technical staff as the three main actors in open and/or distance learning (ODL). The participatory observation approach carried out within the ODL organization in management sciences at the University of Antananarivo (Madagascar) has made it possible to bring out the result of the configuration of community - organic cooperation based on social identification and solidarity. The ODL platform constitutes a fundamental mechanism for ensuring the functioning of cooperation between stakeholders.

scholarly journals CRITERIA'S FOR E-LEARNING DELIVERY PLATFORM (ELDP) FOR OPRN AND DISTANCE LEARNING

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Kanesan Muthusamy ◽  
Mansor Fadzil
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Delivery Platform ◽  
Open And Distance Learning ◽  
Technical Support Staff ◽  
The University ◽  
Time Evaluation

Open and Distance Learning (ODL) has been widely discussed by academicians and Information Technology (IT) personnel's in recent years. In an ODL system, ELearning Delivery Platform (ELDP) plays an integral part that ensures learning materials delivered to users in the most effective and efficient manner. Identifying the selection criteria's is very important and vital for a suitable ELDP system that will enhance and enrich the ODL. At the same time, evaluation formats or check-sheets can be developed using the criteria's to evaluate various ELDP providers by the ODL provider. The criteria's can also be used to help the ELDP developer or provider to develop new systems and make further improvements from time to time. This paper gives a brief summary of the criteria's to select an ELDP system for delivering education via ODL environment. The criteria's are required to satisfy the requirements for courses such as arts, social science, business, management, IT, engineering, science, and so on. It also represents the multiple perspectives of the course developer, the course learning-ware developer, the course lecturer/tutor, the course e-learning administrative staff, the technical support staff, the student and the university administration.

scholarly journals E-Learning Recommender System for Teaching Staff of Engineering Disciplines

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Elena Soldatova ◽  
Ursula Bach ◽  
Rene Vossen ◽  
Sabina Jeschke
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Learning Management Systems ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
E Learning ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University ◽  
User Friendly

Studies show that Learning Management Systems at university level often are lacking necessary for teaching staff member features such as support of various didactical approaches, consideraion of different specifics of engineering disciplines, user-friendly interface. In this paper, a new recommender system aimed at teaching staff of engineering disciplines who wish to use E-Learning tools in their courses is proposed. The system will take into consideration the level of user experience, assess the elements of a teaching scenario and provide guidlines on the contents of the particular element with regards of the engineering specifics. As a result a lecturer should be able to create his E-Learning course that then will be running as a course within the university LMS. The novelty of the recommender system is that criteria used by the system are based on standards for engineering education in conjunction with the framework for pedagogical evaluation of Virtual Learning Environments.

scholarly journals Teorias de Aprendizagem e Arquiteturas Pedagógicas: A Relação entre Ambas no Ensino a Distância

EAD em FOCO ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Morais
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Learning Theory ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Demand For Education ◽  
Initial Assumption ◽  
E Learning ◽  
On Line ◽  
Secondary Objective ◽  
Architectural Models

A pesquisa teve como objetivo principal apresentar como as principais teorias de aprendizagem se adaptam às modalidades de ensino a distância, sendo os objetivos secundários identificar e apresentar as características das doutrinas utilizadas na elaboração das arquiteturas pedagógicas no EaD. Em função de ser esse o canal de maior expansão e que frequentemente se atualiza das ferramentas tecnológicas utilizadas pela sociedade, o estudo foi realizado no EaD on-line. Foram abordadas as teorias de aprendizagem mais conhecidas e exploradas nos trabalhos de EaD, sendo elas: behaviorista, cognitivista, sociocultural e construtivista. As arquiteturas pedagógicas estudadas foram: a de estudo de caso ou resolução de problema, aprendizagem incidente e de ação simulada. Após estudo das teorias pedagógicas e modelos de arquitetura apresentados, foi possível estabelecer uma relação direta entre um e outro, além de identificar variações: na atuação do papel do professor e no modo operante de como ocorre o ensino a distância para o alcance do propósito final. O resultado final confirma a suposição inicial da pesquisa de que não existe uma teoria específica para o EaD, e que tudo vai variar de acordo com o propósito do curso.Palavras-chave: Teoria de aprendizagem; Arquitetura de aprendizagem; Ensino a distância. Learning Theories and Architectures Pedagogical: The Relationship Between Both in Distance Learning Abstract The research mainly aimed to present how the main learning theories adapt to teaching from a distance. The secondary objective is to identify and present characteristics of the doctrines used in preparing the pedagogical architectures in e-learning courses. The study was conducted online because  e-learning is the largest expanded and connected channel that frequently updates technologic tools used by society. In this work, the best known and explored learning theories in the works distance e-learning have been addressed,, namely: behavioral, cognitive, and sociocultural constructivist. The pedagogical architectures studied were: case study or problem solving, learning incident, and simulated action. After studying the pedagogical theories and architectural models presented, it was possible to establish a direct relationship between them, and identify variations such as the role of the teacher in e-learning for reaching the final purpose. The final result confirms the initial assumption of the research that there is no specific theory for e-learning and that everything will vary according with the purpose of the course. The growing demand for education courses in e-learning and the popularization of internet access will allow new architectural models pedagogical to be created in the future, but always with the support of some learning theory. It is believed that with the passage of time and an increasing empirical basis, there can be more exploration of other theories.Keywords: Learning theory; Learning architecture; Distance learning.

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