Effect of E-Learning on the Academic Achievement of Students

Abstract

E-learning has become one of the most debated concepts in today's global education industry. While some speak in favour of e-learning, others criticize e-learning and state that it cannot cultivate better results compared to traditional learning. In today’s COVID situation, e-learning has become necessary for universities around the world, this research has once again focused on this topic to identify whether e-learning can positively influence the performance of students or not. While identifying the same, three factors are selected that are technical competency, e-learning standards, and e-learning infrastructure. After collecting data and information from existing empirical research works, it was found that e-learning can cultivate positive results in terms of student’s performance in different universities and classes. However, it was found that for that positive performance, technical competency must be high and the standard of materials shared through e-learning must be effective enough. In terms of infrastructure, contradictory results are found as one research work stated that it is not vital for improved performance, while the other stated that it is important for better academic performance. Overall, this research identified that e-learning can increase academic performance with the right tools and techniques implemented with it.