Year: 2020 | Month: December | Volume 7 | Issue 2
The Rise of Online Learning and its Worthiness During COVID-19 Pandemic
Mustafa Kayyali
DOI:10.30954/2348-7437.2.2020.2
Abstract:
Distance education appeared in some European and American universities in the era that preceded the emergence of the Internet (considering that the Internet as we know it today starts a new period of knowledge that is unlike any other period) in the 1970s when these HEIs were sending different educational materials via the mail for the student to study and analyze. These educational materials provided by those HEIs included books, notes, study plans, tapes, cassettes, audio, and video recordings, and all educational resources that can be transferred, sent, and used. In their turn, the students were instantaneously sending research seminars, courses, research, and studies by mail and in the same way used by HEIs. Meanwhile, the main obstacle for this educational system was that HEIs required that students must attend the mid-term and final exams at the university (distance education was not fully applied as we know it today, which allows the student to fully undergo the examination process via the internet). By the time, and after a few years, the development of satellite and visual broadcasting services, the pay-TV channels were providing e-services to students in the form of television broadcasting services and Pay Per View services. When the Internet appeared in the 1990s, the rapid development of the emergence of broadcasting, photography, e-lecturing, and communication technologies began. Direct contact with students and the invention of the e-mail by the American-Indian scientist Shiva Ayyadurai in 1978 had a great impact in facilitating the new methods of distance education. During the past few decades, distance education systems and curricula have proven that they can be a great, important, and influential companion to traditional education systems (and we will explain this later in this research).
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