TY - JOUR AU - Kundi, G. M. AU - Nawaz, A. PY - 2014/02/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - From e-Learning 1.0 to e-Learning 2.0:Threats & Opportunities for Higher Education Institutions in the Developing Countries JF - European Journal of Sustainable Development JA - EJSD VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.14207/ejsd.2014.v3n1p145 UR - https://www.ecsdev.org/ojs/index.php/ejsd/article/view/118 SP - 145 AB - <span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: 8pt;">The effective use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in higher<br />education institutions (HEIs) is a global issue for individual researchers, institutions,<br />governments and societies as a whole. New technologies offer opportunities for the<br />developing countries to resolve their long standing problems of national/international<br />isolation and mass-education. Researchers are posting reports of positive results of e-<br />Learning applications around the world; however, using digital gadgets for teaching,<br />learning and education management is neither automatic nor devoid of challenges and<br />problems. There are both development and use problems for the developers, users and<br />institution. Broadly there are three e-Learning systems available to the HEIs: traditional<br />computer-based learning, blended learning and virtual learning with relative merits and<br />demerits but their choice is based on the availability of resources and professionalism.<br />Most of the developing countries (DCs) have started experimenting with traditional and<br />blended systems while developed world is practicing and researching the virtual systems.<br />This paper is an effort to portray a picturesque of the same evolution of e-Learning from<br />e-Learning 1.0 to e-Learning 2.0 in the HEIs of developing states like Pakistan. Critical<br />analyses and argumentation were the research tools used for examination and analysis and<br />to interpret the results of the analysis.<br /></span><p> <span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: 8pt;"><em>Keywords</em>: HEI, ICTs, Traditional, Blended, and Virtual e-Learning, e-Teachers, e-<br /></span><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: 8pt;">Students e-Administrators.</span></p><p> </p> ER -