E-learning Encounters in Malawi Higher Education Institutions

Higher Education is key to any country's economic growth and stability Countries flourish when their educational systems are doing well It is therefore worrisome that Malawi's' higher education enrolment is among the lowest in the word (World Bank, 2016). Concurrently, UNDP (2014) Report outlines that Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world and has a corresponding high level of high rate of illiteracy. Higher Institutions in Malawi like any other developing countries adopted elearning in an effort to increase access to higher education in the year 2011 through both public and private universities The educational reform was established without e-learning basic requirement establishment. This paper will therefore discuss the importance of e-learning to a developing country like Malawi, its challenges and suggestions of how to overcome them in order to successfully implement elearning. Further, the paper suggest that benefits and opportunities of e-learning by far outweighs its challenges hence the need to reinforce it. The paper will finally recommend other partners in education on how best they can work together with the Malawi Government to sustain e-learning system in higher education institutions in Malawi.