The question is: Should one invest his time and money in e-learning in the Arab world? There are many who oppose it, and there are some teachers and academics who are skeptical about the value of e-learning in education.
We need to look at the current state of education and why we need this change. Let us look at the cycle that repeats itself through the generations, which is represented in the following stages: the school-led education that the teachers carry out and the generations go out to the community to produce and create both in their specialty. The student becomes a jobless person, or a person who can not be employed mainly because of his inability to produce and serve the community, so we have to shed light on this series and work to fix the imbalance in it, which results mainly from the education process; Where the construction of creative individuals producing the mejt With the beginning of the first stage of education, and thus the work to change and develop education and keep pace with the scientific revolution is the direction we have to go to the community to the highest levels.
There are four pillars that represent the foundations of modern education, as reported by Jacques Delor in his report on UNESCO's education in 1996:
• The individual learns how to know, that is, learning to know.
• The individual learns how to work, that is, learning to work.
• To learn to live with others, by understanding others and recognizing interaction with them.
• That the individual learns to be, in terms of his / her personality and to expand his / her abilities and self-esteem.
In the context of traditional education, we see that these four principles can not be achieved because the student learns superficially. He remembers the information and stores it only for tests. He can not distinguish the principles from the proofs. He treats the school duties as instructions imposed on him.
This is due to the fact that this type of education is non-interactive.
Therefore, the use of technology and techniques in the field of education is increasingly important for many reasons:
• Low level of education, as educational systems are unable to cope with global development.
• Scattering of curricula with multiple sources of knowledge and rapid flow of information.
• The importance of self-learning and the development of the individual's ability to think and creativity.
• Increasing the awareness of the working class of the society towards the development of their knowledge and experience and knowledge of the new changes or conferences around the world of their specialization, to keep up with the constant development in the era of speed.
• People who have missed the opportunity to learn under certain conditions are encouraged to attend school and to continue their education.
• The large number of students per class of the lack of schools, in addition to the imbalance in the geographical distribution of educational institutions due to focus on areas with high population density.
• The need to reduce the cost of education.