TITLE:
Adapting the Higher Education through E-Learning Mechanisms—A Post Covid-19 Perspective
AUTHORS:
Abdullah Alsabban, Rana Muhammad Shahid Yaqub, Anita Rehman, Muhammad Zafar Yaqub
KEYWORDS:
E-Learning, COVID-19, Strategy Formulation and Implementation, Technology Adoption, TOE Framework, Government Support
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.12 No.4,
July
15,
2024
ABSTRACT: The prime purpose of this research has been to identify and highlight the issues, challenges, and problems faced by educational institutions in carrying out their academic activities during forced lockdowns attributable to the COVID-19 outbreak. A systematic literature review of scholarly papers mined from the ProQuest and ScienceDirect databases using David & Haan’s (2003) methodology has been conducted. While appealing to the Technology-Organization-Environment framework, we have identified many technological, organizational, and environmental factors affecting E-Learning platforms’ prosperous adoption and implementation to fight the issues, challenges, and problems emanating from the global pandemic. Besides, several remedies have been identified and proposed that could enable higher education institutions to deal with all such challenges. Besides expanding our understanding of the dynamics of institutional adoption in HEI, the paper offers some helpful practical implications that could be instrumental in enabling an effective adaptive response to the disruptions caused by global pandemics, which always have a significant chance to recur in the future.