E-learning and the digital economy

Sunday February 21, 2021 106

E-learning and the digital economy

Yasser Al-Metwally

The difference in viewpoints regarding e-learning (via distance) in Iraq remains despite its importance and priority for our Arab and regional surroundings at least, given that the developed countries have passed rapid stages in this regard.

This indicator raises surprise at a time when steps towards digitalization are escalating in most educational, service and economic activities around the world, away from global experiences that have surpassed this aspect at an accelerated pace and close to the experiences of our Arab surroundings, as there is no room for diligence regarding the importance of distance education in any case.

The (Covid-19) pandemic has imposed the need to enter the method of distance education, and the experiment has succeeded in varying degrees in Iraq between the governorates, this was during the past school year and during periods of complete quarantine.

Now, school and college attendance has returned with the beginning of the current academic year, which has been characterized by the continuing practice of distance education, at different rates as well. With the start of Iraq’s precautionary measures to confront the potential second wave of the epidemic, which necessitated the suspension of working hours and the completion of the school season through distance education, regardless of the importance of the education sector in the field of transformation towards the digital age (digital economy) as the basis for implementing digital transformation programs, the need requires accreditation. Completely according to this method and advanced civilizational approach, given that the time period for the end of the epidemic is not known until this moment except for the global trend towards it.

For this, the state as a whole and the education sectors must intensify efforts and work continuously to provide infrastructure for distance education, especially the organized and fast internet and the possibility of allocating it free of charge to the educational sector, to encourage it for its importance in rapidly spreading the culture of e-learning, as well as providing educational supplies and technologies through Investing electronic applications and programs in preparing, converting and translating curricula electronically, and leaving the culture of direct study, because the world is in an accelerated race towards the era of digitization, imposed by international changes, technological development and the new global economic system.

Moreover, this great transformation requires benefiting from the experiences and expertise of countries in this field and from international training centers and integrating the elements of education into these courses, with the aim of the success of the distance education experience in Iraq. The degree of competition between them.

We need a strong will, complete conviction and belief in the inevitability of moving towards the era of digitization to keep pace with global development.



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