What is it about?
This paper discusses the potential challenges and Benefits of Implementing ELearning in Sri Lanka by reviewing the awareness and readiness of the selected higher educational institutes. This study also identifies the enabling factors, the bottlenecks and, forecasts the future growth of E-learning in Sri Lanka as a host in Asia. Of 50 Educational institutes selected from different specialization areas, 24 responded with usable answers.
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Why is it important?
The response rate was 48%, which is an expected rate for such surveys. Awareness of e-learning among the educational Institute is very high but investment to develop an e-learning application is very poor according to the survey. Most of them use Internet related elearning site just for the sake of it and not to do real online learning. There is a trend of creating a web page in most of the Institutes.
Perspectives
This chapter presents the findings from the survey which assessed the potential for an ICT in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is an island state of contrasts in terms of its Economic development and ICT capability. A research on the web survey of government institutes revealed that 30% of ministries in the country do not have web sites or may not be access able since they are inactive. 38% of the ministries are still in the infant stage and information available in web pages is often state in content …
Professor Kennedy D Gunawardana
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
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This page is a summary of: Potential Challenges of ICT Implementations in Sri Lanka, IGI Global,
DOI: 10.4018/9781599041865.ch013.
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