THE DIGITAL MOVE TOWARDS ONLINE LEARNING IN LEBANON

• Main Author: Layal HAMADE
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bucharest University of Economic Studies 2020-10-01
• Series: Business Excellence and Management
• Subjects: online learning; lebanon; learning management system; universities; satisfaction
• Online Access: http://beman.ase.ro/special_issue_1/17.pdf

Face-to-face learning has always been the primary way of education in Middle East. However, some countries such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE and others decided to adopt some learning management platforms to provide dual programs online. On the other hand, Lebanon is still in its early stages as it was adopted by Ministry of Education in mid-2020 due to the spread Covid-19. In addition, utilizing online learning platforms suffer from many challenges such as accreditation, culture, cost, etc. To study students' satisfaction regarding technology use, level of interaction, types of questions, training, and online sessions and recorded voice-over slides, a survey was distributed to 609 Lebanese students attending different universities. It showed that institutions mainly used Moodle, Google Classroom, and Zoom. There was a comparable rate of satisfaction between Google and Moodle platforms; however, a lower rate with Zoom.