Issues and Challenges in Open and Distance e-Learning: Perspectives from the Philippines

Arinto, Patricia

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“…In a related studies, Arinto (2016) and Queiros and de Villiers (2016) agreed, in principle, that three facets need to be in place in order to better prepare both the lecturer and student for online learning:…”

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Status of e-learning Quality in Kenya: Case of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Postgraduate Students

Hadullo

Oboko

Omwenga

2018

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There is a substantial increase in the use of learning management systems (LMSs) to support e-learning in higher education institutions, particularly in developing countries. This has been done with some measures of success and failure as well. There is evidence from literature that the provision of e-learning faces several quality issues relating to course design, content support, social support, administrative support, course assessment, learner characteristics, instructor characteristics, and institutional factors. It is clear that developing countries still remain behind in the great revolution of e-learning in Higher Education. Accordingly, further investigation into e-learning use in Kenya is required in order to fill in this gap of research, and extend the body of existing literature by highlighting major quality determinants in the application of e-learning for teaching and learning in developing countries. By using a case study of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), the study establishes the status of elearning system quality in Kenya based on these determinants and then concludes with a discussion and recommendation of the constructs and indicators that are required to support qualify teaching and learning practices.According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), many countries are currently overseeing a massive expansion of higher education through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). However, improving quality is one the most significant challenges for Higher Institutions of Education (HEIs), particularly in developing countries. This is as a result of enrollment expansion characterized by a range of weak inputs such as weak academic preparation for incoming students, lack of financial resources, inadequate teaching staff, poor remuneration of staff, and inadequate staff qualifications (Johanson, Richard, & Shafiq, 2011; United States Agency for International Development [USAID], 2014; Aung & Khaing, 2016).Recent studies show that ICT integration in education through e-learning are facing numerous challenges associated with quality. For example, studies in Kenya confirmed that there are quality issues linked to inadequate ICT and e-learning infrastructure, financial constraints, expensive and inadequate Internet bandwidth, lack of operational e-learning policies, lack of technical skills on e-learning and e-content development by teaching staff, inadequate course support, lack of interest and commitment among the teaching staff, and longer amounts of time required to develop e-learning courses (Tarus, Gichoya,& Muumbo, 2015;Makokha & Mutisya , 2016).A related study (Chawinga, 2016) in Malawi on increasing access to university education through elearning observed that the greatest obstacles to e-learning use were: Lack of academic support (77.6%);Delayed end of semester examination results (75.5%); Class too large (74.3%); Delayed feedback from instructors (72.6%); Failure to find relevant information for studies (67%)...

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“…Jung (2017) observed that learner motivation (intrinsic and extrinsic) is crucial to the learners' success in an online coursework environment. JKUAT needs to provide training as it is a way of imparting e-learning skills through training was necessary in order to improve quality (Arinto, 2016;Azawei et al, 2016).…”

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Status of e-learning Quality in Kenya: Case of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Postgraduate Students

Hadullo

Oboko

Omwenga

2018

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“…For Arinto (2016), these resources are political, administrative, technological, digital, material, financial and human. At the HTTC of Maroua, the administrative resources refer first to the leadership of it managers.…”

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Conceptualizing the Implementation of Distance Learning System at the Higher Teacher’s Training College of Maroua (Cameroon)

2017

International Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Educat

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“…However, when, the formal concept of ontology in the general domain is incompetent, uncertain and ambiguous. So, to describe the fuzzy concept and fuzzy relation of imprecise, uncertain and fuzzy information, fuzzy theory was extended to the ontology [3], and then made it be formed fuzzy ontology, because fuzzy ontology can deal with fuzzy knowledge, and can describe and retrieve text and multimedia objects in the fuzzy information.…”

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Research on Fuzzy Recommendation System Based on User Profile

Shao¹,

Ma²,

Yang³

2017

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Abstract. To provide the personalized services for learners according to user's learning behavior, firstly, through theory of Fuzzy Ontology, the ambiguity and uncertainty of information in E-learning recommendation system was analyzed, and fuzzy information was extended to the ontology. Secondly, the user interest estimation based on behavior was studied in term of user's learning preferences and cognitive status, user profile was described by the learning object, and then a user model updating algorithm was proposed. Finally, a fuzzy recommendation system based on user profile was built. As verified by experiment, the results have shown that the system can provided the personalized learning services according to user's learning behavior, and it is useful in describing user preferences.

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Issues and Challenges in Open and Distance e-Learning: Perspectives from the Philippines

Cited by 94 publications

References 37 publications

Status of e-learning Quality in Kenya: Case of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Postgraduate Students

Status of e-learning Quality in Kenya: Case of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Postgraduate Students

Conceptualizing the Implementation of Distance Learning System at the Higher Teacher’s Training College of Maroua (Cameroon)

Research on Fuzzy Recommendation System Based on User Profile

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