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Fageeh (2011) conducted a study on the factors influencing elearners' acceptance of the
Blackboard at King Khalid University. The study’s findings demonstrated that informants identified the
facilitators and inhibitors of e-learning previously recognized in prior research. They also showed that
students are ready to accept technology implementation and to shift to an e-learning model of education.

Fahad AlFahad (2010) investigated the learners' satisfaction toward online e-learning
implementation in King Saud University. In the meantime, this study was conducted to assess whether the
substitution of conventional learning with e-learning can improve the educational standard and
knowledge of people, especially in this information world. The target group consists of 201 university
students (female) from the College of Applied Studies and Community Service. The results of the statistical
analysis demonstrate that student satisfaction has been very positive toward e-learning as teaching assisted
tool and provides more benefits than conventional learning.

Ali AlShehri (2010) studied the state of e-learning in Saudi Arabia. His main objective of the paper
was to examine current and future developments and challenges of E-learning in KSA. A qualitative
approach was used to explore the views of 30 senior academicians involved in E-learning during their
attendance at a twoweek course on the subject. The results referred to that all participants considered
themselves as decisionmakers on E-learning in their units or departments. They felt that E-learning had
come to stay, but acknowledged challenges in respect of resources, organization, management, and
information technology. The study concluded that the fast development of E-learning poses many
challenges. Clear vision and strategic planning with prospective Elearners in mind are essential to make E-
learning programs costeffective.

Rima AlJarf (2007) investigated the cultural issues in online collaborative instruction in EFL
classrooms. Her study reported the results of an experiment in which the author and her students at King
Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia shared an online grammar course with a professor and his students
at Umm AlQura University in Makkah, Saudi Arabia using the website of www.makkahe-learning.net. The
experiment proved to be a total failure. The cultural factors contributing to students' inadequate
participation in the online course, and hesitation to register and interact were discussed as well.

So far, more than twenty previous studies that focused on the issue of e-learning in a Saudi Arabian
context have been reviewed. Out of such a review of literature, a lot of ee-learning activities could be
collected for the purpose of employing them as active items in the proposed questionnaire.

Table 1.1A collection of e-learning activities with their sources in
the literature

Expected activities of elearners Sources based on

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