E-learning Gate of Success in Crisis: Iraqi Universities

Abstract

The article shows intensively how the Iraqi universities struggled and exceeded successfully and academically through the academic years from 2019 to 2022 and still strive to cope with the Coronavirus pandemic crisis. More than 100 Iraqi universities in which approximately 50,000 academics and  800,000 students started to study every year periodically during the Corona pandemic via e-learning and connected respectively with the ministry of  Iraqi higher education (IHE) to drive the new trail with e-education from the homes and have never stopped. In spite of Iraqi universities having weaknesses in infrastructures for e-learning, the majority of universities work and fully invest in e-platforms ( MOOC) like Google classroom, Coursera and high support of social media, consequently best criteria for academic and students that have been accomplished via e-exams and study. Regulations of public health and the ministry of Iraqi health created a crucial decision to convert toward e-learning as a gate of success in crisis to do e-exams and manage the mechanism of education because it was difficult to return the Iraqi universities to their ordinary exams and began training committees on e-exams and e- procedures to success the e-education in whole universities of Iraq, especially higher education. This paper showed the results IHE relates to applying high standards in e-education during the academic years from 2019 to 2022 in the coronavirus pandemic crisis. In this respect, the Iraqi universities present strong evidence to prepare and accomplish a roadmap to implement blended learning through successful e-learning in the current time and in the future toward lifelong in universities of Iraq.