JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING & INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS ISSN 2518-8739 30 th April 2018, Volume 3, Issue 1, JSEIS, CAOMEI Copyright © 2016-2018 www.jseis.org 61 A review of adoption of e-learning in middle east countries 1 Asmala Ahmad, 2 Ali Fahem Nemeah, 3 Hassan Mohammed 1,2,3 University Technical Malaysia, Melaka, Malaysia Email: aeltanaeltan@gmail.com ABSTRACT E-learning has provided men with new opportunities in teaching-learning procedures. A historical review of educational systems literature reveals that e-learning has spread out among people much faster than any other learning methods. E-learning, as a state-of-the-art technology, has caused great innovations in materials development in those societies in which new methods and procedures could hardly ever been accepted. Technological innovations and the development of telecommunications such as Television Stations and Channels, Satellites, Mobile, and Internet have made it possible for the children and teenagers in the Middle East to access to the latest news and information. Of course, these developments have endangered both political and educational systems in some aspects. The present paper while pointing to some of the recent developments in the field of e- learning in the Middle East, tries to examine the political and educational systems reactions to this phenomenon. Keywords: e-learning ; technology; culture; learning; higher education; educational systems; 1. INTRODUCTION E-learning (Electronic Learning) is the unifying term to describe the fields of online learning, Web-based training, and technology-delivered instruction. The widespread accessibility of the World Wide Web and the ease of using the tools to browse the resources on the Web have made the e-learning technology extremely popular and the means of choice for distance education and professional training. The concept and the use of e-learning were adapted in the mid 1980’s by several institutes in the United States. Approximately 1.9 million learners participate in e learning at institutes of higher educations, a million of which are from Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The number of people applying for e-learning courses all over the world increases at a rate of 25 percent each year [1]. Some of the middle-east countries have introduced and are successfully running e-learning in their educational institutes and business organizations. The Middle East countries education system is somewhat under stress to provide additional educational opportunities for increasing population and to boost the literacy rate. With over 50% of these countries population under the age of 20 and one of the highest birth rates in the world, higher education institutions have been facing a growing demand for enrolment.in this paper tries to show the review of e learning in middle east countries . 2. E-LEARNING E-learning has not only affected youth’s methods of learning but also has modified the relations between social structures and young generation. The application and genesis of mass communication and its outcome which is Electronic Learning has made some sorts of information accessible to the young people [2]. For centuries, being grown up and experienced was a basic and needed factor in the Middle East to gain access to such kind of information. Nowadays, this modification in an ancient area is to such an extent fundamental that everybody should give priority to that. During the last century, emergence of Radio, Newspaper and TV had a kind of tremendous effect on the connections between grown up young generations of society. The history of 50 years of social transformation in the Middle East distinctly shows how each one of these new medium has increased anxiousness and tension in parents, teachers, politicians, and clergymen. It has also widened the extent of misunderstanding among generations. Today, we are confronting with a new phenomenon called the genesis of Internet and E-learning. These new technologies have affected security of traditional societies in the Middle East. As a result, the act of learning has turned into a national - security issue [3].It has been turned into a security issue because the sense of equilibrium which has been prevailing in the relation between last and new generation, has been lost. Parents do not feel secure anymore because their kids, quickly and before the appointed time become familiar with the relationship between different sexes. They believe that their children communicate with strangers and play a number of games which are not only time-killers but bothersome and annoying. Politicians do not feel secure because they are not able to exercise their influence on young generation as the only eternal political source. They have to fight with their political opponents both in the field of practice and the virtual world. To the politicians, in this critical region, nothing is more perilous than the minds of the young people crammed with