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The Challenges and Factors Influencing the E-Learning System Usage During COVID-19 Pandemic

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This study aims to assess the experience of e-learning, especially in the post-Coronavirus period, and the challenges facing this experience. The study evaluated this experience depends on the review and analysis of all documents related to e-learning and the various experiments applied. The results revealed the challenges facing the electronic transformation process and how to overcome. And the evaluation of this experience in e-learning in the period of Corona and the future of this type of education in the post-Corona period.

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    Abdulsadek Hassan

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

    Allam Hamdan

  2. Department of Business Studies, Box Hill College Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait

    Arezou Harraf

  3. International Centre for Cross Cultural Research and Human Resource Management (ICccR and HRM), University of Jammu, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Pallvi Arora

  4. Middle East Technical University​, Northern Cyprus Campus, Kalkanlı, Güzelyurt, KKTC​, Mersin, Turkey

    Bahaaeddin Alareeni

  5. University College of Bahrain, Manama, Bahrain

    Reem Khamis Hamdan

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Hassan, A. (2022). The Challenges and Factors Influencing the E-Learning System Usage During COVID-19 Pandemic. In: Hamdan, A., Harraf, A., Arora, P., Alareeni, B., Khamis Hamdan, R. (eds) Future of Organizations and Work After the 4th Industrial Revolution. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1037. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99000-8_16

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