Students’ Perceptions towards the Effective Use of Web-Based Learning Platform (WBLP) on their Learning Outcomes

Nowadays, computers are the potential deliverers of the educational system, since they can be used for personalizing learning, to design learning according to the learners’ knowledge and needs. Educators’ attention has overtime been attracted by the development of the internet and internet-based computerized learning (i.e e-learning). Academic studies in this area have portrayed that the process of obtaining web technology for the purpose of learning and teaching is quickly becoming an important tool in these fields. In accordance with the latest requirements, many institutions and individuals prefer to provide education/training via the Internet and that has sparked a remarkable rate of increase in web-based education institutions. And therefore, there has been a rise in the usage of personal/informal as well as institutional/formal web-based learning platforms. Therefore, the web, with its wide range of functions, has become such a highly invaluable source and the tool to acquire learning, research development that in all honesty without its learning process. The technological implications and wide use of learning applications of the web that includes a wide array of functions and many unique components are now currently utilized in the development and evaluation of effective web-based learning applications in order to facilitate teaching contents through interactive exercises and multimedia materials. This research is to analyze the perceptions of Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) students, who are registered to a course which is given by the School of Computing and Technology through a web-based learning platform Keywords: web-based learning, e-learning applications, multimedia technologies, teaching tool, the educational system