What Educational Actions are Urgently Needed for Developing E-Learning and Enhancing the 21st Century Skills

One of the main core of the 21st century skills is to think and act successfully toward difficult and unexpected situations. Today and after the emergency situation imposed by the Corona pandemic, significant deficiencies and challenges have been revealed in offering E-learning that must be successfully overcome. As teachers are in the center point of the running educational process, the authors tested 75 university teachers to find how they think and act toward six of common obstacles they might face in learning, especially in E-learning. Lack of some skills and abilities was observed in the investigated sample. Furthermore, this paper highlights how Information and Communication Technology can impact student learning when teachers are digitally literate and can understand how to integrate digital tools into the curriculum. The authors ended this paper with recommendations for some measures needed to make E-learning successful, and meets the 21st century requirements.