E-Learning: The Student Experiences on Ability, Skills, and Knowledge in the Sultanate of Oman

Abstract

E-Learning is rapidly becoming an essential component of Oman’s educational process in all the universities and colleges and brings with it the most significant changes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of the e-learning on ability, skills, and knowledge enhancement.  The survey population of this study consist of students who are studying in Arab Open University, Sultanate of Oman.  Convenience sampling method was used to draw 249 samples were considered for the study. The influence of the e-learning on ability, skills, and knowledge enhancement was tested through stepwise multiple regression analysis and the result shows that the e-learning predicts 62% of ability, skills, and knowledge enhancement among the students in the university. The findings of this study are that students’ attitudes and approaches were precisely positive for E-learning in increasing their ability, skills, and knowledge. They were confident that it deals with a worthy approach to modern teaching and learning, and they believed that E-learning is very useful.  The most promising thing students underlined is the availability and ease of access of the available teaching materials, exercises, and updated information regarding their course from effectively anywhere outside of the classroom and collection of all the learning material in one place, rapid feedback on the course LMS which will enhance their knowledge significantly.  Present day the education is dependent on using e-learning applications, to develop their abilities, skills, and experiences, to enhance their academic and learning performance. More efforts have been exerted to provide by the university for a better educational environment that helps students to easily exchange knowledge, opinions, attitudes, skills, and experiences. E-learning should be designed in such a way that they are creative, interactive, relevant, student-cantered, and group based. The study suggests that there is a need for the improvement from the university management side to improve the pleasant e-learning environment for learning. It is therefore recommended that an e-learning environment can increase the ability, skills, and knowledge potential of the students. With its rapidly growing workforce of adaptable and well-educated graduates, Oman could have a unique role to play with e-learning in the region.