Automating PAAET: the Kuwaiti Distance Learning Project – a Personal Reflection

This is a personal perspective of the implementation of a distance learning project in a Kuwaiti organization. This paper reflects the involvement of the author in the project and explores the reasons behind the failure of the first phase of the project. The absence of a strong pedagogical reason for such a project, the erasure of faculty and students' voices, and the failure to recognize that e-Learning is different from face-to-face are reasons that have contributed to the failure of the project so far. A shared responsibility of all parties involved and a clear pedagogical vision could save this project.