ONLINE LEARNING IN IRAQ: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Abstract

The Covid - 19 pandemic posed a serious threat to humanity throughout the world. Many activities, including educational activities, have been stopped in the whole world as a result of the epidemic, so all countries of the world turned into e leaning. Countries of the Middle East especially the Arabic countries were still in the beginnings in using e learning, before the pandemic, though other countries outside the Middle East were using e learning in the learning and teaching process some years ago before the Arabic counties. IRAQ is one of countries that were affected by the epidemic. After the outbreak of Covid-19 in it, the educational system made simple and limited attempts to integrate e-learning into their classrooms; though e learning has been used in a very limited way in some universities, and using technology in the learning process was rare. There are several barriers to the successful implementation of this technology inside Iraq. The current study aims to identify the barriers to effective e-education implementation in Iraq and to suggest potential solutions to these barriers.