Title: An analysis of the permeability of Moroccan higher education to e-learning and simulation based e-learning

Authors: El Hassan Laaziz; Elmustapha Elkhouzai

Addresses: LIDDS, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, UH, Settat, Morocco ' LIDDS, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, UH, Settat, Morocco

Abstract: The integration of e-learning into the educational and training landscape of developed and emerging countries has become an important issue since the beginning of the millennium. The sophistication of associated information technologies tends to replicate all the virtues formerly associated with the face-to-face. Recent advances in interfacing and integration between Learning Management Systems (LMS) and simulators are an example. In Morocco, e-learning is still in a basic level of both practice by practitioners and the place granted to it by governments. Accordingly, the degree of penetration of e-learning is fairly basic both in sophisticated devices and in the sophisticated content that can be able to change the situation. The aim of this article is to study the permeability of Moroccan higher education to e-learning devices and interactive content in particular. The degree of penetration of e-learning and interactive and simulation-based content will be analysed, benchmarked and discussed.

Keywords: e-learning; distance learning; information technologies; higher education; simulation; moodle; e-learning standards; learning management systems; Morocco.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTEL.2018.092707

International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 2018 Vol.10 No.3, pp.254 - 267

Received: 13 Jul 2017
Accepted: 10 Oct 2017
Published online: 28 Jun 2018 *

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