A Solution for Social Education - Free Open Source Software Teaching through E-Learning Framework

Abstract

E-learning is one of the predominant disciplines in the current era as every action of the normal human becomes online. Besides, E-learning pedagogy plays a major role in the Social Service paradigm in such a way that giving free education through the web on-demand. The work aims to focus on providing free online workshops and tutorials on software development tools to various other Universities, colleges, schools in and around Majmaa and Riyadh as part of community service to society. The users of the system are faculty, students of other Institutes and schools. The faculties and students who undergo the MUE-Learning can acquire the knowledge of currently available (FOSS) Free Open Source Software and how to use them to develop software applications. The framework includes the preparation of teaching-learning materials, online teaching, and student's assessments. The LMS tool Blackboard is embedded with the proposed framework to enable online teaching. Using the framework, the impact of FOSS education to the school and University students were measured through qualitative and quantitative parameters and proven that more than 75% of success in teaching Free-Open-Source-Technologies to variety of education institutes in and around Majmaa, KSA. Moreover, the comparison on the knowledge gathering in between male and female through different study modes synchronous and asynchronous teaching-learning was statistically tested and results are discussed. The approach meets the challenges of obtaining innovative and effective learning.