How Course, Contextual, and Technological Challenges are Associated With Instructors’ Individual Challenges to Successfully Implement E-Learning: A Developing Country Perspective
Many universities and colleges in developing countries around the world have started using e-learning courses to keep up with the technological revolution of the higher education sector in the developed world. E-learning has served as a catalyst for higher education to expand in the last decade. How...
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| description | Many universities and colleges in developing countries around the world have started using e-learning courses to keep up with the technological revolution of the higher education sector in the developed world. E-learning has served as a catalyst for higher education to expand in the last decade. However, there are still many challenges facing universities in the developing world, as they attempt to implement e-learning. This paper investigated the main challenges that could significantly impact the implementation of e-learning in developing countries. The main objective of this paper was to identify these challenges and examine how they are related to the challenges facing instructors when using e-learning systems. A total of 107 university instructors responded to an online questionnaire about their perceptions of the main challenges in implementing e-learning in a university context. A partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) was employed to test the relationships between certain course, contextual, technological, and individual challenges. Challenges related to the design of the course, the support provided, societal/culture, and technology were found to have a significant impact on the instructors' use of e-learning systems. Several implications for the policymakers and practitioners were discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5ed15f76515a4b9b928f46f9e6b735572022-12-21T23:48:39ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-017487924880610.1109/ACCESS.2019.29101488685091How Course, Contextual, and Technological Challenges are Associated With Instructors’ Individual Challenges to Successfully Implement E-Learning: A Developing Country PerspectiveHanan Aldowah0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1020-2389Hosam Al-Samarraie1Samar Ghazal2Centre for Instructional Technology and Multimedia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, MalaysiaCentre for Instructional Technology and Multimedia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, MalaysiaCentre for Instructional Technology and Multimedia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, MalaysiaMany universities and colleges in developing countries around the world have started using e-learning courses to keep up with the technological revolution of the higher education sector in the developed world. E-learning has served as a catalyst for higher education to expand in the last decade. However, there are still many challenges facing universities in the developing world, as they attempt to implement e-learning. This paper investigated the main challenges that could significantly impact the implementation of e-learning in developing countries. The main objective of this paper was to identify these challenges and examine how they are related to the challenges facing instructors when using e-learning systems. A total of 107 university instructors responded to an online questionnaire about their perceptions of the main challenges in implementing e-learning in a university context. A partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) was employed to test the relationships between certain course, contextual, technological, and individual challenges. Challenges related to the design of the course, the support provided, societal/culture, and technology were found to have a significant impact on the instructors' use of e-learning systems. Several implications for the policymakers and practitioners were discussed.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8685091/E-learninghigher educationindividual challengestechnology utilization |
| spellingShingle | Hanan Aldowah Hosam Al-Samarraie Samar Ghazal How Course, Contextual, and Technological Challenges are Associated With Instructors’ Individual Challenges to Successfully Implement E-Learning: A Developing Country Perspective IEEE Access E-learning higher education individual challenges technology utilization |
| title | How Course, Contextual, and Technological Challenges are Associated With Instructors’ Individual Challenges to Successfully Implement E-Learning: A Developing Country Perspective |
| title_full | How Course, Contextual, and Technological Challenges are Associated With Instructors’ Individual Challenges to Successfully Implement E-Learning: A Developing Country Perspective |
| title_fullStr | How Course, Contextual, and Technological Challenges are Associated With Instructors’ Individual Challenges to Successfully Implement E-Learning: A Developing Country Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Course, Contextual, and Technological Challenges are Associated With Instructors’ Individual Challenges to Successfully Implement E-Learning: A Developing Country Perspective |
| title_short | How Course, Contextual, and Technological Challenges are Associated With Instructors’ Individual Challenges to Successfully Implement E-Learning: A Developing Country Perspective |
| title_sort | how course contextual and technological challenges are associated with instructors x2019 individual challenges to successfully implement e learning a developing country perspective |
| topic | E-learning higher education individual challenges technology utilization |
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