Factors of E-Learning System Affecting Students’ Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence from Virtual Campuses of Southern Punjab

Abstract

The advancements in technology are very rapid, the education and training are shifting from traditional classroom learning to Information Communication Technology (ICT) based, requiring self-organized, collaborative learning, with flexible timings, and consisting of  the facilitators, learners and experts community. Use of internet technologies for improvement of knowledge and working performance is also included in the scenario of E-Learning. By these technologies the contents, sequence of learning, learning place and timings along-with media can be controlled, which allows them to enhance their expertise and exposure in order to meet the objectives of individual learning. In order to administer the view of resources and learning of the E-Learners technical standardization is done that creates multiple learning opportunities for researchers, faculty members to meet with continuing challenges of the world. Rapid changes in the world and new trends and innovations in E-Learning directly highlight the revolution in education that allows collaborative as well as adaptive learning that changes the task of instructors. The combination of E-Learning with education can enhance the application of learning theory for adults. It is expected that the educators was more involved in facilitation of learning and supporters of competency rather than the distributors and servers of content. In order to boost the performance as well as knowledge the emerging technologies of internet are providing a vast range of solutions. The educators of medical can also use E-Learning for enhancement of effectiveness and efficiency for emerging social, scientific challenges. In the past decade E-Learning has achieved esteem as eminent from the previous studies. However the   use of E-Learning has been inconsistent amongst clinical clerkships as well as in basic sciences. Web based, computer assisted, online, internet and distributed learning all are the other names of E-Learning. However, the computer assisted learning and distance learning are termed to be two E-Learning modes as shown by the studies of the past decade. Learning assisted by computers facilitates the learners by the help of computers in the distribution of packages of multimedia in teaching and learning. Whereas, distance learning provides knowledge to the learners at remote areas from a central location.