The Challenge of Increasing Student Engagement in E-Learning Platforms

E-Learning activities are considered an important tool for all levels of students and many e-learning applications utilise scenario and/or simulation-based learning. Previous work has identified many issues leading to student disengagement with e-learning platforms. These issues were associated with trivial tasks, task evaluation, mobile learning, learning materials and a single-mode approach to instruction etc. Therefore, this study will investigate the most common challenges and issues faced by students in an e-learning environment. A qualitative approach was used to identify and confirm these challenges, namely, interviews with experts with the interview questions deriving from previous work. Finally, the findings were a group of suggestions and techniques that could facilitate in solving these challenges and issues.