Guardians and Educators Perspective on the Effectiveness of E education and Its Future Implications

Abstract

The use of digital technologies and electronic media to enhance the learning experience and to facilitate the teaching process indicated e learning. E learning encompass various experiences such as online classes, digital learning resources, virtual experiences or assessment. In this research the analysis of E learning perspective is in terms of attitude and satisfaction towards e learning. Many sub dynamics were taken care of while studying the same. As research framework the idea of e leaning is taken form Online collaborative learning Theory. This framework shows e learning as Idea generation, organisation and intellectual convergence. This theory indicate a child centric and discussion based approach to e learning. E learning has gained massive importance over the last few years amid to covid 19 crisis and now it has become a standard practice in all schools to have electronic apps and platforms to facilitate the learning in order to increase student engagement. This study is trying to understand the Educators and Guardians perspective on e-education as educators are the primary learning providers and guardians play a very important and executive role in middle schoolers life. METHODS- A mixed method approach was adopted to evaluate the perspective of Educators and guardians. A substantive sample size of 534 participants is designated, comprising 256 guardians and 278 educators. To assess the attitude TeLRA scale is used and to evaluate the satisfaction a self-prepared questionnaire is used. For qualitative analysis interviews were taken and then using MAXQDA the thematic analysis was done. Furthermore the triangulation is done on both the quantitative and qualitative data to synthesise the results. RESULTS- The findings reveals that respondents showcased overall positive attitude towards e learning. The study identifies that gender has very limited impact on the attitude towards e learning as females have slightly positive attitude towards e education in comparison to males.