Web Based Learning

Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Introduction: Web based learning system
Web-based learning system is gaining popularity in education field for the twenty-first century. It has been widely developed and adopted in most of the university. The learning system is not limited by time or place. Thus it can provide students with a learning environment that is more flexible and convenient. It also helps students to learn efficiently, develop their professional expertise quickly, and advance professionally. More and more education institutions provide web based learning systems for the students. It shows that there is an enormous market potential for learning technologies. Therefore, there is an increasing demand for adequate web based learning systems of highest standards and a necessity for powerful.
Table 1.1: World Internet Usage and Population Statistics
Source: Internet World Stats – www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Table 1.1 has shown the world internet usage and population statistics. According to the above table, the growth of world internet usage in different region increases significantly. The growth of the Internet and the increase in the wide range of information distributed via the World Wide Web has strong impact on education so the use of the Internet is increasingly common in the educational environment. University should make full use of the development of the Internet in education today in order to increase the learning efficiency of the undergraduate students. The students are among the users of information from the Internet. However, it is important to find out to what area students use the Internet for academic purposes especially undergraduate students.
Web based learning system has been commonly used in both educational and non-educational institutions recently. The percentage of organizations using web based learning system in the employee training programs has shown in a report published by the Giga Information Group The figure rose from 21%

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