Abstract
The study aims to identify the obstacles facing teachers in Palestine society while adopting e-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show the most critical obstacle continues to be the infrastructure of the educational system. Other obstacles include technical support, the readiness of all stakeholders, and remote technological education skills and competencies. The study also shows many obstacles, including students’ failure to attend classes in full, assessment of students, and learning online. The study highlights the critical success factors for the adoption of e-learning. E-learning requires skills and competencies for both teachers and students. Teachers must also adopt various teaching methods accounting for individual differences, learning styles, and psychological support. Those teaching methods need advanced training before implementing them in Palestine. Additional recommendations were made including spreading electronic culture, increasing awareness of society partnership, enriching teacher education programs, conducting trainings for teachers, and conducting further researches similar to this study.
Highlights
The outbreak of COVID-19, known as the Coronavirus, has been affecting lives around the world for over a year
Pandemic, are, respectively, (1) obstacles related to infrastructure and technical support, followed by (2) obstacles related to experience in the field of distance technology education skills, and the readiness for education, followed by (3) obstacles related to the student, (4) to parents and (5) obstacles related to the teachers themselves
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent reflection of using different educational methods in Palestine including e-learning, this study investigated the obstacles hindering the implementation of e-learning in Palestinian Schools
Summary
The outbreak of COVID-19, known as the Coronavirus, has been affecting lives around the world for over a year. It has been actively disrupting the educational process for almost 300 million students around the world (UNESCO, 2020). Schools and universities have closed; parents are supporting their children with the learning process via home schooling. Arab countries, including Palestine, were not immune from this crisis. Palestine declared a state of emergency in March 2020, disrupting the educational process. The Palestinian educational system, with its limited capabilities, was not prepared to use e-learning in its defined sense. Many initiatives to maintain contact between teachers and their students were introduced, including the use of social media. Communication between teachers and their students took place using Google Meet, Zoom, Facebook Groups, WhatsApp, and other means
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