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E-learning in the Generative Artificial Intelligence Era: Exploring the Middle Eastern context

By Reham Salhab / April 18, 2025

The objective of this article is to examine the potential benefits and challenges of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in e-learning in the Middle East region. Literature review was conducted and revealed several benefits of GenAI, including but not limited to: enhanced teaching practices, understanding, enhanced engagement, personalized learning promotion, flexibility, and enhanced academic performance. Some challenges are ethical and cultural considerations, data privacy, the digital divide, lower accuracy, and misleading information. » [Full Article]
TYPE: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, INTERNATIONAL ONLINE EDUCATION

The Development of Competencies for Use in Online Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Insights from the hospitality management degree program at the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City campus

By Rosa Adriana Vázquez Gómez, Claudia Galindo Correa, Pedro Pablo Espinosa Martínez / June 29, 2023

This study aims to comparatively analyze students and professors' perceptions regarding the development of competencies through the online format of a bachelor's degree program in hospitality management during three semesters of stay-at-home learning. The goal is to understand whether the tools and teaching resources used by faculty adequately met the objectives of the bachelor program, which has as one of its main objectives the development of competencies. Using the two variables from the TAM Model (i.e., perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness) and the types of technological resources that students and professors used, we found both groups saw the accessibility and ease of use of technological tools as simple and believe that they are useful or very useful for learning. » [Full Article]
TYPE: HIGHER EDUCATION, INTERNATIONAL ONLINE EDUCATION

An International Comparison of Online Learning Transition During COVID-19

By Zan Chen, Bao Zhen Tan / March 30, 2023

This article looks into the impact of COVID-19 on the digitization of work and learning, specifically for adult educators (post-secondary educators and trainers) around the world. It provides a comparison of adult educators in Singapore and their international counterparts from the United Kingdom, European Union countries, and the United States. Results show international respondents tended to view transition to online learning, teaching, and assessment (LTA) as a temporary response to the emergency due to COVID-19, while the perceptions of respondents from Singapore seemed to represent a general sentiment toward a more permanent shift to online LTA rather than an emergency response. » [Full Article]
TYPE: INTERNATIONAL ONLINE EDUCATION