Among global trends in modern education now and especially in higher education, the trend towards e-learning E-Learning and Distance Education Distance Learning, and spent on developed nations billions of dollars annually, to the extent that the term distance education, will decline in the near future to show another term broader universality is «Virtual Education» Virtual Learning result stunning development in the field of multimedia Multimedia and methods of communication and dialogue from a distance, and sees many education experts and futures that education now and in the future will largely depend on electronic technologies that will lead to a radical change in the educational process, updated forms new education in the future, requiring the need for speed rehabilitation of our children and prepare them to communicate and interact well with the revolution of e-learning current and promising, and that will occur many future changes important in all areas, among which contribute significantly to the acceleration rehabilitation human to apply e-government.
And e-learning in short is the use of technical means and modern communication from a computer and networks and وسائطه multiple voice and image search engines and electronic libraries and Internet portals and other various software, to deliver educational programs for learners as quickly and with minimal effort and more useful. And distance education is part derived from e-learning, in both cases, the learner receives information from a remote source for the teacher.
Says Peter Plantec Peter Plantec in his book «humans Alafteradion» Virtual Humans in 2004 and provide expert artificial intelligence and futures Ray Kirzuil Ray Kurzweil, the human default will play a big role in the future in the field of education, The way traditional education on its way to demise, and when placed textbook on a disk, The book ends printed becomes possible to modify the information, and can «teacher default» In this case the supply of information first hand, and so we get rid of the teacher of traditional and give each student a teacher and one of its own, which benefit him more, because the teacher default will remember what the student has learned and not learned , and therefore will not move to subject the following, unless mastered the student the previous article, and if the student problem, the teacher default can to try him ways other educational to explain material, including display aids the student on the screen, and through mutual dialogue between the student The default teacher can 'virtual teacher' identifying appropriate incentives to raise student motivation.
There in the Arab world are now many projects and experiences of e-learning and distance education growing, which aims to expand the provision of education and training commensurate with the rapid development of information and communications technology, with a capacity increase for education systems and reduce costs, but we refer here to the Saudi experience in the application of distance education which is one of the leading experiences and promising in the Arab world, has announced that Saudi Arabia officially finally application of distance education, and mentions it in for this pioneering step towards the future has launched 6 initiatives to establish the infrastructure for higher education-mail and tele-education initiative includes bridging eLearning , educational portal, system bridges management in e-learning, firing Award for Excellence in university education, the warehouse of the National Units educational service to facilitate e-learning, as the Saudis create the National Center for e-learning and distance education to higher education institutions, and his duties circulation management system elearning in line with the needs of higher education in the Kingdom, and the training of academic and administrative skills and management systems of e-learning and distance education, and building curriculum-mail contents and forms of print and digital for a number of undergraduate courses, and build portals e-learning and distance education and awareness program e-learning and distance education.
It has become the trend towards consolidation of e-learning and distance education in the Arab world, an urgent need for excellence and catch trends global towards educating the future, but the settlement «culture technique», diffusion in the institutions of higher education and the community to keep up with the times, and to accelerate the rehabilitation of the human to apply e-government in the Arab societies, and this requires first analytical study minutes to see how accommodating academics, students and administrators to the concept of e-learning and distance education, then prepare educational and training programs distinct and non-traditional culture of awareness e-learning and distance education, in terms of the concepts and forms of e-learning and its importance in the light of global trends towards «knowledge economy », with the need to introduce the decisions and curriculum mandatory in distance education in schools and universities to increase students' awareness worth of e-learning, and the need for rehabilitation good for academics, students and administrators on the skills of e-learning and distance education, particularly training and preparing students to research skills developed in the use of Internet Technology and Communication direct audio-visual and programming skills such as designing web pages and websites and published, and which are necessary and essential for e-learning and distance education, noting that most of the students in the Arab world and in particular some scholarships abroad do not have only limited experience in the use of computers and the Internet, does not exceed the ability to Browsing and the use of search engines and e-mail and discussion forums and chat. With the need for full coordination and hard between educational institutions and bodies and other institutions of society concerned with e-learning and distance education such bodies and institutions of Communication and Information and other bodies can have a role in the success of this kind of education.
Finally, the expansion of e-learning projects and distance education in the Arab world, has become an urgent necessity with communications and information revolution stunning, but also requires an urgent need to rehabilitate and prepare academics, students and administrators on the systems and skills of this type of education, to achieve the educational goals desired, and graduation generations new educational competitive locally and globally and to promote opportunities for lifelong learning and skills development and information easy manner at any time and in any place.
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