Emerging Trends in E-Learning in Punjab- Pakistan

Abstract

Internet and mobile learning are necessarily emerging trends in education through last decade. They are mirroring vast changes and proliferation of update knowledge, which enhanced our learning productivity and real time world relevancy. Internet and mobile worked together to facilitate the self-learning process. In this study, there are three indicators set up to weigh the importance of E-learning; first, to investigate that the internet is an easy source of promoting and updating knowledge from university students’ points of view. Second,  to recognize that the E-learning is a time saving method of self-learning. Third, to facilitate gaining electronic sources of a specific study field through using different search engines.

A peer reviewed questionnaire was prepared and governed by specialist reviewers; who agreed on its content and semantic aspects of all questions, to collect the data from one hundred students enrolled at three public universities of Punjab in Pakistan. Results outlined that internet and mobile are used to fun and entertainment, gain knowledge, search materials, and  to facilitate studies or researches of different disciplines.

Furthermore, the outcomes of the current study seemed different, which may be due to the focus of the current study upon perceived consequences rather than uses and practices of current users of mobile and E-learning. The fact that apparently clear demonstrates that scholars and students mostly tend to such trends in Pakistan.