| Covid-19 will be the catalyst that hastens the e-learning process and this is going to be the future of education. Although e-learning exists presently in various forms, the Covid-19 pandemic is going to streamline and make it mainstream and unfold the tremendous opportunities that present-day technology can bring to education to make it affordable and effective.
In Malaysia, e-learning can be speedily carried out due to the fact that Bahasa Malaysia, and to a lesser extent English, are the main medium of instruction and the same standard textbooks are used all over the country. This facilitates the e-earning process and there are no major problems unlike in some countries which have different languages and education policies that prove to be a handicap for them.
It is a well-known fact that some teachers have a better in-depth knowledge of the subject and can offer better-simplified explanations, answer questions and doubts and make subjects more interesting, which is what the panel of expert teachers should do. Exposure to more English will help improve their fluency in the language, which is what the government has been trying all these years. E-learning will motivate the students to explore and search wider for a better knowledge, a practice that will keep them in good stead when they go for tertiary education.
Presently, parents spend a lot of money on private tuition, not to mention the burden on students in terms of time and travel to tuition centres. The students can use more of their time for sports and other activities.