Gama Limbani Chrispin, Chipeta George Theodore, Chawinga Winner Dominic
Department of Information Sciences, Mzuzu University, Private Bag 201 Lubinga, Mzuzu City, Malawi.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mzuzu University, Private Bag 201 Lubinga, Mzuzu City, Malawi.
Educ Inf Technol (Dordr). 2022;27(8):11201-11218. doi: 10.1007/s10639-022-11060-1. Epub 2022 May 3.
Electronic learning (e-learning) has become inevitable for higher education institutions during the Corona Virus pandemic. This paper presents a systematic literature review on e-learning in Malawi's higher education institutions with comparable analysis from findings in other developing countries across the globe. The aim was to highlight some benefits and challenges of implementing a sustainable e-learning programme in higher education institutions. Methods for the review included a qualitative analysis of literature and employed the Bandara et al. (2011) framework and NVIVO 10.0 for windows for data analysis and management and incorporated the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses to help define the question, the inclusion and exclusion criteria, and the proposed methods, including a comprehensive search strategy. Sources for the review included research articles from databases such as Sage, Emerald, Science Direct and Elsevier. The paper has unearthed several benefits of online learning especially during the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the few publications and sustainable e-learning research in Malawi, the review has found that technological, individual, financial and managerial challenges, impede the development of best practice standards for e-learning implementation. The review has suggested recommendations of a sustainable e-learning programme to provide quality learning through technology. The paper provides further ideas for developing and implementing a sustainable e-learning program to provide quality learning through technology.
在新冠疫情期间，电子学习（e-learning）已成为高等教育机构的必然选择。本文对马拉维高等教育机构中的电子学习进行了系统的文献综述，并与全球其他发展中国家的研究结果进行了对比分析。目的是突出在高等教育机构中实施可持续电子学习计划的一些益处和挑战。综述方法包括对文献进行定性分析，并采用班达拉等人（2011年）的框架以及适用于Windows系统的NVIVO 10.0进行数据分析和管理，同时纳入系统评价和荟萃分析的首选报告项目，以帮助界定问题、纳入和排除标准以及拟采用的方法，包括全面的检索策略。综述的资料来源包括来自Sage、Emerald、Science Direct和爱思唯尔等数据库的研究文章。本文揭示了在线学习的诸多益处，尤其是在新冠疫情期间。尽管马拉维关于可持续电子学习的出版物和研究较少，但综述发现，技术、个人、财务和管理方面的挑战阻碍了电子学习实施最佳实践标准的发展。综述提出了关于可持续电子学习计划的建议，以通过技术提供优质学习。本文为制定和实施可持续电子学习计划以通过技术提供优质学习提供了进一步的思路。
