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The education industry around the globe is undergoing major transformations. Organizations, such as Coursera are advancing new business models for education. A number of major industries have dropped degrees from the job requirements. While the economics of higher education institutions are under threat in a continuing gloomy global economy, digital and lifelong learners are increasingly demanding new teaching and learning paradigms from educational institutions. There is an urgent need to transform teaching and learning landscape in order to drive global economic growth. The use of distance eTeaching and eLearning (DTL) is on the rise among digital natives alongside our evolution toward smart societies. However, the DTL systems today lack the necessary sophistication due to several challenges including data analysis and management, learner-system interactivity, system cognition, resource …