Impact of E-Learning on Academic Achievement from Teachers’ Perspective

ABSTRACT

As with any crucial industry, education has been severely impacted by COVID-19 from its emergence in late December 2019. Schools, colleges, and universities have all been significantly impacted. Over 800 million students worldwide are affected, and 102 countries have ordered nationwide school closures while 11 have implemented localised school closures, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). “Every catastrophe is also an opportunity” (Thomas Shelby) The closure of academic institutes professed and analysed the importance of e-learning.Online e-learning can be used as an alternative to traditional face-to-face instruction. Many schools, universities and teaching-learning fraternity have started using e-learning to meet the needs of students, especially non-traditional students who work full-time or those who are in remote areas. Since e-learning makes use of the Internet and World Wide Web, the learning environment becomes more advanced. Estimating the effect of e-learning on academic achievement is the aim of this research. The research has been carried out with the teachers view point as to which tools and techniques a teacher uses in e-learning and how effective are they? Seven characteristics of e-learning were found from the literature review as also from face to face interviews with teachers, students and other stake holders such as parents and curriculum designers Taking academic achievement of students as dependent variable and these seven characteristics as independent variable a regression analysis was carried out. Though all characteristics were found to be significantly influencing academic achievement, further analysis was done to find the most important and the least important amongst these.