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Top2. E-Learning Systems
Electronic learning (e-learning) became a necessity for the success and prosperity of education. Although e-learning became a necessity, still many universities and schools are not adopting it fully. Education depends on face-to-face interaction between teachers and students, where technology became a channel for interaction and rich communication (Abu-Shanab, Ababneh & Momani, 2013). Also, the Internet bridged the place and time gap and facilitated the teaching/learning process. E-learning is the utilization of computing technology in universities and schools to facilitate education. Some modes of integrating technology into learning are becoming more popular like: information exploration, coordination, mental tools integration, web-based cooperative learning, problem-oriented integration strategies, information technology (IT) integration and learning assessment, and a technology integrated education (named energy education), where students are adaptive learners (Liao & Chen, 2010).
E-learning refers to distributing learning materials and lectures by teachers to students through a communication channel (Vlahovic et al., 2011) to execute all required tasks by teachers as well as learners through supporting the interaction among them easily, which results in a better usability of the e-learning system (Muhammad et al., 2011). Many learning theories were used, in the context of e-learning, in physical classroom situations and have been adopted and validated like: learning in an adaptive community, collaborative learning, scaffolding, and scenario learning (Tsai, 2011).