E-learning and the Future of Business Education: The Case of GCC

This research can be thought of as an investigation and reflections that seeks to describe the current status of opportunities and challenges resulting, so far, by the eLearning utilization by the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) Countries. The analysis of the relevant literature indicated that there is a demanding need to use effective digital solutions for contributing towards achieving the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs), more particularly SDG 4: Quality Education. This paper hence calls for action for gradual change management in education and raising awareness in the classrooms. Students are yet to fully understand the potential benefits of eLearning, and to accept it as a mode of learning. There needs to be a solution of developing a model by combining “quality of education” and “transfer of digital solutions” as a novel and comprehensive approach to the problem of managing the educational and scientific potential of HEIs in the GCC towards contributing to the SDGs.