Comparison of Academic Achievement Between Classroom Learning and Untact Online Learning－Focusing on the Inference and Argumentation classes at University B

Abstract

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, education has been severely impacted, and this impact will have repercussions that go beyond our survival as a society. In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, most schools and colleges in Korea changed their teaching methods from live classes to “untact”, online classes. Even though there was a degree of distrust regarding the educational effectiveness and learning efficacy of online learning, The COVID-19 pandemic did not give us a choice. However, at this point in the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, most professors and students have adapted to online learning and are still looking for various ways to increase learning effectiveness. Moreover, even after the COVID-19 pandemic is over, online learning is highly likely to become a substitute for traditional classroom learning, or at the very least, it will run concurrently with traditional classes. Either way, in order for online learning to continue, the actual learning effect of these sorts of classes must be confirmed.</br>As a result of the operation of the “Inference and Argumentation” class, contrary to concerns, research from 2021 showed that online learning can have as much of a learning effect for students as classroom learning. However, this judgment was based on the questionnaires of the learners and the qualitative feelings of the professor. But in order to clearly show that untact learning can have as much of an effect as classroom learning, it is necessary to compare the learning results of classroom learning with those of untact learning. That is the focus of this study. In order to secure the reliability of the data, the same conditions were maintained as much as possible, except for the difference in class operation according to untact learning and classroom learning. As a result of this study, we will come to see whether untact learning has the same learning effect for students as classroom learning.