Abstract
Higher Education Institutions have been implementing a unique technology-based learning way, as Information and Communication Technology is rapidly growing. Smart Learning is technology-supported learning that provides a comfortable learning environment that touches the individual learners’ needs. The new learning platform seeks to enhance education in a more intelligent yet simpler way. As this topic becomes a global educational matter, the Saudi government has been carefully discussing the implementation of Smart Learning since 2007. This research paper studies the advantages and challenges that will face the students by implementing a Smart Learning environment in Higher Education Institutions in Saudi Arabia. This research is completed using Quantitative research methodology. It develops questionnaire and applies to 530 students and professor in Saudi universities. This study comes with benefits and challenges of e-learning such as flexibility, interaction and internet experience. Also, it suggests a set of innovative recommendations to overcome the challenges that the Saudi universities might face with the new learning system.
Highlights
The education nowadays is becoming technology-based especially with the current pandemic
This research paper studies the advantages and challenges that will face the students by implementing a Smart Learning environment in Higher Education Institutions in Saudi Arabia
In Saudi Arabia, Smart Learning has been rapidly growing in the past few years and the Saudi education sector is moving towards the new system through electronic devices, which phones and computer devices are used for communication purposes among teachers, instructors, and students (Siemens, 2013)
Summary
The education nowadays is becoming technology-based especially with the current pandemic. As is still growing in Saudi Arabia, many researchers still have a few concerns regarding that educational system Some of those concerns are: how does Smart Learning balance the focus between learners, teachers, and learning data, and the devices used? Smart learning mainly reflects how advanced technologies are to allow learners to absorb knowledge, information, and skills more effectively, efficiently and conveniently through mobile devices (Al Awar, 2021). Those devices are utilized to achieve the Smart Learning techniques such as formal and informal learning, personalized and positioned learning, and social and collective learning. The shift from traditional learning to Smart Learning face several challenges in developing countries such as Saudi Arabia, and the perception of the student, teachers, and service providers on smart learning is quite little (Picciano, 2012)
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