The integration of e-learning in the Algerian tertiary level: The case of Biskra University

Abstract

In this new Age of the digital technology, it is of tremendous importance for higher education in Algeria to work hard for the purpose to narrow the huge gap between the reality they face and live in and the potential of the new technologies in order to keep abreast with the standard norms of modern education. Undoubtedly, some uses of the digital technologies are quite promising but require substantial reorganisation and rethinking of the roles of the individuals and institutions. In the sphere of this problematic, in the present work, we purport to explain the gap between the existing, prevailing reality of the Algerian universities and the expectations of the effects of the digital technologies in the academic world of higher education. In precise terms, this paper will tackle the question of to which extent the Algerian universities are prepared to implement and use the new technologies as part of their current practices for the purposes they can serve, and discuss the challenges and problems the institutions in higher education are facing to place information and communication technologies as central to teaching and learning.