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Paper Title : Exploring the challenges and opportunities in adoption of eLearning during COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya

ISSN : 2394-2231
Year of Publication : 2021

10.29126/23942231/IJCT-v8i4p4
Authors: Dismas Kitaria, Anthony Irungu Njina, David Kibaara, Stephen Mageto, Patrick Njuguna

MLA Style: Dismas Kitaria, Anthony Irungu Njina, David Kibaara, Stephen Mageto, Patrick Njuguna " Exploring the challenges and opportunities in adoption of eLearning during COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya " Volume 8 - Issue 4 July-August , 2021 International Journal of Computer Techniques (IJCT) ,ISSN:2394-2231 , www.ijctjournal.org

APA Style: Dismas Kitaria, Anthony Irungu Njina, David Kibaara, Stephen Mageto, Patrick Njuguna " Exploring the challenges and opportunities in adoption of eLearning during COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya " Volume 8 - Issue 4 July-August , 2021 International Journal of Computer Techniques (IJCT) ,ISSN:2394-2231 , www.ijctjournal.org

Abstract
As the COVID-19 cases continued to escalate, the Ministry of Education declared that the school calendar for the year 2020 to having been lost due to stringent COVID-19 restrictions, which prevented normal learning activities. E-learning presented a critical opportunity during the pandemic in assisting teachers to deliver their lessons and to track the learning and teaching processes. eLearning platforms are supported by different technologies and require both electricity, data connectivity, as well as devices, which creates technical challenges for their implementation. The willingness and acceptance of learners to utilize the e-learning platforms is a major contributing factor to the success of the system. Learners, teachers, and parents have been noted to have been ill-prepared for eLearning. In absence of operational policies on elearning, the education sector was caught unawares and was ill-equipped to adapt to any form of standardized learning. The lack of a standardized approach to the e-Learning systems poses a challenge to their implementation. Despite the challenge, eLearning systems provide a significant opportunity for carrying out education reforms to ensure that learning can continue even when the traditional schools are closed.

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Keywords
——eLearning, COVID-19, Closure of Schools

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