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This is true in Saudi Arabia, where the demand for higher education has climbed by over 479 percent between 2005 and 2009. This is, in part, due to the increasing number of high school students seeking to pursue higher education. What does this have to do with e-learning?
There is an estimated 5 million Saudi citizens between the ages of 15 and 24, which has created capacity pressure for higher education institutions in the kingdom. This results in crammed classrooms and a decline in the level of learning. Thus, Saudi Arabian Ministry of Higher Education has been advocating the adoption and use of information and communications technology (ICTs) in education at all levels for quite some time. E-learning has been used as a complementary, and sometimes alternative, method of conducting classes and examinations over the years.
Distance learning was first widely adopted in Saudi Arabia in the early 1990s and further grew in size in the decades that followed with the expansion of the internet and technology...
E-learning in the age of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia
Many of the e-developments that manifested during the novel coronavirus pandemic in Saudi Arabia are a case in point following the closure of schools to restrict the spread of the contagion. The Ministry of Education launched Vschool.sa to direct the workflow for virtual classrooms.
During the COVID-19 outbreak, Ma'arif for Education and Training, one of the largest private school owners and operators in Saudi Arabia, proved successful with its distance learning tools. Over three days of e-learning sessions, Ma'arif's e-learning platforms witnessed the participation of nearly 15,000 students who attended 8,560 live sessions that took place online during school hours, according to Arab News.
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