Digital Skills and Research Methods

Digital skills and research
methods

Table of Contents
Research Title..................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
Rationale.................................................................................................................................3
Research Objectives...............................................................................................................3
Research questions.................................................................................................................3
Literature review....................................................................................................................3
Methodology...........................................................................................................................5
Primary Data Analysis............................................................................................................7
Secondary Data Analysis......................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

Research Title
“Impact of Virtual Learning Environment on students during situation of COVID-19
pandemic”.
INTRODUCTION
Learning is defined as the tools understand the various concept of learning. It helps in
building the good knowledge of the students and increase their learning. Virtual learning is used
by the institutions and collages to easy learning and understanding of the students and keep them
updated and informative. It also eliminates the barriers of effective learning and help in
continuous learning of the students. This type of learning is high recommended by the student
and shows positive response toward virtual learning. This report will have analysed the impact of
virtual learning on students with the help of various questionnaire and data analysis.
Rationale
The main purpose of preparing this report is to evaluate the impact of virtual learning
environment on students. Likewise, the present research is mainly emphasised on identifying and
importance of benefits of virtual learning on students so that it can be teaches the same during
learning process and enhance learning standards.
Research Objectives
 To study the concept of Virtual Learning environment.
 To identify the importance of Virtual Learning Environment in learning for students.
 To evaluate the impact of Virtual Learning Environment during Pandemic situation on
students.
Research questions
 What is meant by Virtual Learning Environment?
 How Virtual Learning can support students in their academics?
 What are the impacts of Virtual Learning Environment that students faced due to
pandemic situation?
Literature review
According to Emarkable, (2018) Virtual learning environment is an educational platform
for the digital aspects of study within the educational institutions. They provide resources and

activities of the structure of the course, it provides different stages assessment. It has been
adopted by almost all the higher education in the English speaking world. Computerized learning
education system is also known as electronic educational technology, e-learning or learning
management system. The virtual learning system generally described as a range of integrated
web based applications that provide teachers, learners, parents and for all those who are involved
in education with the required information and tools to support educational management and
delivery. Virtual learning environment consists of different elements which includes the syllabus
of the course, it also gives the administration information like credits, registration etc., a notice
board for the current courses that is going on, course for distance learning applications, formal
communication like emails, chat, audio, video presentations etc., interactive sessions with white
board for online classes, management of the different rights of teachers, students and assistants
of the teachers., submission and presentation of the projects by students (Aluja-Banet, Sancho,
and Vukic, 2017). Virtual learning system is a student-centred system, it works in a decided
format and here students themselves take the responsibility of their learning. The materials are
provided in the computerized formatting that is their lectures, notes and assessment modules.
Students are provided with the forum where they can e-mail their concern and clear their doubt.
Students can discuss about anything related to their education. Student's e-mail id is enough to
understand the identity. They can access 24hrs to the learning material so they can do according
to their flexibility.
According to Margaret Rouse, (2019) Virtual learning environment is a platform in
which an educational technology is used in the form of different digital aspects in institutions.
This is basically made to enhance the learning capacity of students through different mediums
such as computers, you tube, internet, online classes many more. It helps to enlighten the path of
students by giving them certain knowledge about all the topics, students gets a facility to gain
maximum amount of knowledge not just from one source but from different areas and mediums.
As this is an easy understandable process and gives the students high opportunity to clear there
basic problems. Virtual learning mainly covers fragments of knowledge and helps the student in
choosing the future career paths. In this environment it complies with different online sessions
between the teachers and there students where the main objective of teachers were to give them a
classroom knowledge as well as extra information as needed, The teachers tries to connect with
the students and even openly discuss about the problems in any topic with a discussion session