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Bridging the Gap of the Educational System across Different Countries

through E-Learning

Dr. Nancy Agens, Head,

Technical Operations, Phdassistance

info@phdassistance.com

In Brief

The gap in the educational system has been

a major drawback globally. The idea and

concept of E-Learning have been evolved

as a result of many kinds of Research. E-

learning has assisted in closing this gap.

The main goal of the study is to offer

quality education through e-learning by

assessing the effectiveness of e-learning

mode. The focus has been to assess the e-

learning potential to provide a quality

education through electronic means and

also to evaluate the scope of e-learning. E-

learning provides a better standard of

living for students across the world. This

paper deals with improving the student’s

quality of education and their standard of

living (Arif Ali, Walayat Hussain, 2011).

Keywords: E-learning environment, e-

resources, digital divide, E-Learning,

digital Gap, Information Communication

Technology (ICT), distance learning,

flexible learning.

I. INTRODUCTION

There is an enormous transformation

in the field of education due to various

researches. Information Technology has

provided an innovative learning

environment by means of sharing, acquiring

and propagating the knowledge to others. E-

learning is a method adopted by students for

experiencing the teaching sequence, to fulfill

their learning tasks, and to achieve the

desired results in their learning. However,

in many countries, exposure to the e-

learning mode is very limited. But, the

significance of e-learning has been

recognized by many e-learning

environments. Information technology can

be used to solve this issue (Abuzaid, 2010).

Figure 1. 2011-2016 Worldwide Self-paced eLearning

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II. E-LEARNING

Identifying and preparing for

student’s needs and capabilities is the key to

success for e-learning. E-learning system

must possess these skills to provide suitable

methods for learning and appropriate content

for users. The data obtained from the

student’s profile, type of knowledge,

qualities, skills, and personalities can be

used to develop an effective E-learning

environment for students. The data obtained

can be utilized in two ways. The first way is

to inform the designers of the e-learning

platform about the pedagogy. The second

way is to provide a dynamic self-learning

ability from the student’s behavior. These

learning capabilities will provide long time

learning approach. As Artificial

Intelligence has the capability of developing

and imitating human’s decision-making

process, it helps to achieve this learning

ability.

Figure 2. Synchronous and asynchronous on Demand

III. OPEN ONLINE COURSES

This type of learning mode has

become a recent trend. This type of learning

must mainly offer two features. It must be

available to all users at no cost. The main

challenge depends on the huge Data

Collected from the interactions of students

with their learning environments and

incorporating them with the AI technologies

to create the best e-learning approach.

Students are properly Guided According to

their needs and their goals and they are

motivated so that they can visualize their

learning results in the form of graphics.

They can also compare their position with

their fellow mates (Colchester et al., 2017).

An online learning platform helps to

develop an understanding of learning in any

environment. E-learning suggests ways for

social collaboration and meaningful

engagement through education.

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IV. COMPONENTS OF E-LEARNING

Internet Technologies enable a

distributed learning environment to facilitate

learning. Three main components in e-

learning are:

1. Synchronous and asynchronous

communication tools.

2. Learning strategies in E-learning.

3. Distributed environment.

These components form an iterative

model, which works collectively to promote

a better learning environment. E-learning

includes the use of laptops, computers,

smartphones, tablets, and some software

tools.

Fig 3. Three Components of E-Learning

There is a gap between education

systems between countries. Definitely, there

is a limited difference between students’

knowledge about technologies in receiving

learning materials through e-mail, voice, and

videos. E-learning is found to be the most

effective and easily implemented form of

education as it is a simpler form of

education than the previous model of

distance education. As this type of learning

has no tutors, no supervision, no cost, e-

learning is considered as most effective in

bridging the educational gap across

countries.

Based on the qualities of online

users, there are three approaches that support

pedagogical models. The strategies are:

1. Exploratory,

2. Dialogical, and

3. Supportive.

Exploratory strategies are theory

built based on inquiry-based learning where

learners are offered context and they are

asked to present solutions, action strategies,

and analysis of the situations. The dialogical

learning strategies stress on the

communication mode by facilitating learners

to acquire new knowledge through

discussion. Finally, the goal of supportive

strategies is to mold the performance and

skills by observing and supporting learners

while implementing their learning tasks.

These strategies are interconnected and

improved as a key strategy that supports and

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promotes other self-directed learning

methods as a result of the implementation of

all strategies (Tran, 2019).

V. CONCLUSION

The most powerful strategy to make

students engage in learning activities is

through the mode of e-learning. Making

students involve actively in education is

significant in any Learning Framework

such as in-personal learning programs,

online classes, and hybrid courses. E-

learning mode improves the skills and

quality of learning of the students. E-

learning also provides full course materials

for the entire course thus supporting the

learning and teaching methods offered in the

classroom (Kim et al., 2019).

VI. FUTURE WORK

Online content creators must

research for an innovative and advanced

method that satisfies student’s needs.

Further, the research must be done to

explore the uncovered areas. Research

should be done in the field of learning

theories and learner’s association with them

as this is significant (Mehta et al., 2019).

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