The spread of Corona virus in the world led to the imprisonment of nearly one billion students around the world for their schools and universities, because congestion in the classroom may be an appropriate reason for the spread of virus infection among students, and among them to their families, and this means a disaster, but on the other hand, there is a catastrophe that is no less virulent than a lethal catastrophe caused by the spread of the virus, it is a catastrophe of stopping learning, and the decline towards ignorance. Learning for a person and societies, is such as food, water, and air, cannot be interrupted for a long time. Interruption of any of them for different periods will lead to human death, so is the case with education, stopping for a long time means the spread of ignorance, and the spread of ignorance means the spread of disease and poverty, and injustice and terrorism, which is what ultimately leads to the same result as food, water and air cuts.
It was necessary to continue learning, but by preserving the principle of social divergence imposed by the case of the spread of corona infection, therefore, education must be by remote, and since distance education cannot happen without a media medium, and the best of these media is the Internet, then distance education is electronic education, so various educational institutions around the world began broadcasting their lectures via the Internet for the student who receive them through various electronic programs. Thus, education continued.
But what is noticed here is that the process has a difference between countries and others, some of which used e-learning completely before the spread of the virus, and some used it partially as in the case in blended education, which mixes between regular and e-learning, but there are educational institutions in other countries that were never used it before, such institutions and such countries were facing a new reality on them altogether, so they failed, surprised and staggered so much that some of them were able to perform e-learning within narrow limits, while others are still reeling in their place .
Since any disaster befalling people must draw lessons and lessons from them, the most important thing that can be drawn from the experience of education in the time of the Corona disaster is the need to develop proactive plans for the education system and its alternatives that educational institutions may need when they are urgently resolved. After the Corona pandemic, God willing, ends, educational institutions must develop strategic plans to spread the culture of e-learning in societies that are not accustomed to, and provide it with the necessary means instead of staying in line with traditional education without developing anything from its means. The amount that they spend on infrastructure, buildings and classrooms can be greatly reduced by developing electronic education which can be done within the cheapest means of communication in the world, "Internet".
The advantages of switching to e-learning are many, including, but not limited to:
1.Reducing student momentum in many educational institutions in countries with weak human development indicators, which negatively affects the ability of one student to absorb the lecture
2.Reducing the increasing traffic momentum in all countries among the world because it will ensure that the student learns at his home, instead of going out to his educational institution
3.Reducing fuel consumption and its environmental pollution by reducing the number of fuel-burning cars on the street and reducing electrical energy consumption in educational institutions
4. Improving the digital skills of both the student and the teacher, which raises the indicators of their digital intelligence, which is what will be required later in the labor market within the fifth generation of the industry, which will be almost entirely dependent on artificial intelligence
5.Reducing financial spending on school buildings and their maintenance requirements
6.The possibility of opening horizons for global learning, as the student does not require travel from his country to another country to register in one of its educational institutions, but he can register and learn in it from his home country and his private home, and this in turn reduces a lot of travel expenses and costs of energy consumption in travel
7.Through the aforementioned positives about reducing energy consumption, it is clear to us that e-learning is green, environmentally friendly, and leads to sustainable development, and implicitly achieves the goals of the third millennium
8.E-learning will open the doors of acquaintance between societies to their wrestlers, which is what God Almighty wanted when he created people from one soul, and made them people and tribes to get to know each other.
But the e-learning process is not without a set of negatives, we include it in the following lines, with the development of possible solutions to overcome it:
1.The inability to apply practical training through e-learning, and this is correct, as practical training requires a laboratory and workshop, and here educational institutions can be shortened to laboratories and workshops, which will require the student's attendance, but half of what his presence required for theoretical education. Furthermore, many practical aspects can also be performed through e-learning, such as information technology skills, and artificial intelligence skills, while the rest of manual skills can cover an uncomplicated part of them through virtual laboratories that enable the student to perform his practical experiences via the Internet as well
2.The lack of actual communication between the student and the teacher on the one hand, and between the students with each other on the other hand, and such communication affects a lot in building the student’s personality, and this is a realistic negative, but it is mitigated by what will happen during the practical training of students inside Educational institutions, and what can happen from an electronic video and audio meeting of students while performing an electronic lecture.
Moreover, and away from the negatives and positives, some obstacles must be overcome by country agencies in order to enable their educational institutions to perform effective e-learning, including strengthening the Internet service and expanding it to cover the entire area of the state, while ensuring its violations and piracy, in addition to providing what it is assumed to be available from electronic communication devices for all its students, and the cost of that is, of course, less than the costs needed to construct buildings.
E-learning is no longer an educational luxury. Rather, it has become a necessity. Countries and institutions that did not realize this previously should realize it now and work for it in earnest.
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