واقع التعليم الإلكتروني بالجامعات اليمنية و مقترحات تطويره في ظل انتشار و باء كورونا

الملخص EN

The present study aimed at diagnosing actuality of e-learning in Yemeni universities and proposing perspectives and suggestions to promote it under the outbreak of Coronavirus pandemic.

The study followed the descriptive and analytic approach by analyzing the content of literature and relevant reports.

The problem of the study could be represented by the following two questions: 1.

What are the efforts of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research towards e-learning? 2.

What is the actuality of e-learning in Yemeni universities? And what are the most prominent challenges which confront it? The study revealed the following results: - In 2007, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Studies made progressive steps in the legal aspect and issued necessary laws and regulations for e-learning and distance learning.

It granted licenses for some universities during the period 2000 - 2012.

In 2013, the Ministry suspended this system temporarily for review and evaluation.

In 2016, this system was stopped conclusively, and in 2017, the Council of Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance issued standards of distance learning.

- In general, e-learning in Yemeni universities is featured as incapable and insufficient, besides the availability of many challenges most prominent of which are: weakness of the institutional capacity of universities, especially in the technological aspect; absence of the electronic and scientific culture; lack of funding; weakness of surveillance, monitoring, and transparency; in addition to the consequences of civil war and blockade on Yemen.

This means that Yemeni universities are not currently ready for e-learning.

- The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, led to: suspension of study in Yemen; malformation of the educational process and; leaders of the Ministry of Higher Education, universities, and community feel worried.

This has made the Ministry realized the importance of e-learning in university education, and the necessity to promote it in order to confront risks and epidemics.

- The research presented some recommendations and suggestions to promote e-learning in Yemen.