| dc.description.abstract | E-learning has helped many nations to generate, disseminate, use, and expand internet
based learning among citizens for the benefit of society and the economy. While faced
with the challenge caused by many years of wars and conflict, Afghanistan is harnessing
E-learning techniques to expand education and training opportunities in the face of lack
of infrastructure and very low literacy levels. Whereas a number of E-Iearning initiatives
exist in the higher education sector, there has not been an attempt to carry out a country
E-leaming readiness assessment.
This project presents a first step towards addressing this need by identifying factors that
support viability of E-Iearning; measuring various stakeholders' perceptions of Elearning
readiness, and the impact of factors such as gender and education levels on Elearning
perceptions; and the relationships that exist between technology and educational
system.
A survey of three-hundred and fifty users of structured E-Iearning in four public
Universities in Kabul has been done in this study. The results indicate an overwhelming
majority having a positive perception of country E-Iearning readiness. In addition, the
study results show that there is no significant relationship between gender, and level of
education on E-Iearning readiness perception. However, the study results indicate that
there is a very strong linkage between the investment in ICT infrastructure for education
and the resultant impacts from the E-Iearning educational system. | en |
