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The Government Support in Distance Education: Case of Bahrain

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Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning Post-COVID-19

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 1019))

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The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the global economy into a tailspin and has had a massive impact on higher education. Face-to-face courses have moved to online learning platforms because of the abrupt closing of campuses as a social distancing measure to discourage group dissemination. In literature, the effectiveness of virtual delivery in the basic schooling and higher education sectors is well researched and heavily debated amongst scholars and practitioners, especially during this pandemic. The purpose of the research was to gauge the impact of the government support on the effectiveness of distance education provision on three main areas: platforms, content delivery and the end-user (the student) perspective. This research focused on Kingdom of Bahrain as a case study after exploring number of international examples of government support to distance education during Covid 19 pandemic. This study targeted students in Bahraini universities including public and private universities. According to statistics for higher education in Bahrain, the number of students in Bahraini universities is 38,113 students. This study has used 5% margin error and 95% confidence level to come up with 381 sample size as the minimum responses required. However, we received 486 responses which are above the minimum size of sample. All survey responses are valid for analysis and no exclusion has been made. The research involved a quantitative questionnaire that was answered by 486 respondents amongst students who were enrolled in various academic programmes, post COVID-19, in virtual mode. The questionnaire items were purposely designed to measure the students’ satisfaction as a measure of effectiveness and quality of the virtual training environment. The questionnaire was distributed and administered electronically via a mass emailing campaign. Upon collecting the responses, the data was quantitatively analyzed using descriptive quantitative analysis.

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  1. Ahlia University, Manama, Bahrain

    Layla Faisal Alhalwachi & Allam Hamdan

  2. Bahrain Institute for Banking and Finance BIBF, Manama, Bahrain

    Amira Karam

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  1. College of Business and Finance, Ahlia University, Manama, Bahrain

    Allam Hamdan

  2. College of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

    Aboul Ella Hassanien

  3. AACSB International, Tampa, FL, USA

    Timothy Mescon

  4. Majan University College, Muscat, Oman

    Bahaaeddin Alareeni

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Alhalwachi, L.F., Karam, A., Hamdan, A. (2022). The Government Support in Distance Education: Case of Bahrain. In: Hamdan, A., Hassanien, A.E., Mescon, T., Alareeni, B. (eds) Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning Post-COVID-19. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1019. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93921-2_32

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