Middle East education 'is being transformed through online learning'

E-learning is having a transformative effect on education systems throughout the world.
Brocade Communications Systems' Middle East and North Africa regional manager Sufian Dweik suggested that the continuing proliferation of mobile devices is leaving academic centres open for change.
He suggested the "one size fits all" model of education, which traditionally involves a teacher delivering instruction to a classroom of students, will no longer be able to compete with digital education revolutions.
Previously, the representative suggested that organisations in the Middle East are being constrained by a lack of campus technology investment and innovation among vendors, despite the fact that they have spent significant sums of money on hosted services, hardware upgrades and applications.
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