An Analysis of the Efficacy of E-Learning in Education

This essay provides a comprehensive analysis of the efficacy of e-learning in the education system. It begins with an introduction that defines e-learning and highlights its importance in the modern, technology-driven world. The paper then reviews and analyzes various research articles, examining the effectiveness of e-learning compared to traditional classroom settings, the factors that make e-learning appealing, and the challenges faced in its adoption, particularly in developing countries. The essay explores aspects such as interaction, immersion, and the use of gaming to enhance student engagement. Furthermore, it investigates the impact of e-learning on student performance, the role of technology acceptance models, and the critical success factors for successful implementation. The conclusion summarizes the findings, emphasizing the increasing significance of e-learning as a vital component of modern education.

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INTRODUCTION
E-learning refers to a kind of learning process that involves technological application.
Principles emanating from cognitive science emphasize the importance regarding selection
and application of appropriate multimedia to enhance the cognitive learning in order to retain
the knowledge for long time (Clark &Mayer, 2016).
.In today’s technology driven world, the importance of e-learning is undeniable as it
not only imparts knowledge to the learner through the technical apparatus but also create long
term impact in their mind. The method is helpful in bringing the student to the contact of
outside world broadening their mental horizon and continuously reshaping it. In this paper a
brief discussion backed by existent articles has been presented to shed light on the importance
and effectiveness that E-leaning confers to the learners (Rennie & Morrison, 2013). How this
learning process influences the learners effectively allowing them reap benefit from it.
The format of discussion is presenting review of relevant literature or articles that
depicts the concern of the paper.
REVIEW & ANALYSIS
The paper examines three crucial aspects important with respect to the fact that over
past decade, use of e-learning has been growing remarkably in the post secondary education
system of United States. The first and foremost aspect is the how effective is the learning
process with help of technology compared to the conventional instructional class room based
mode of educating students. It has been found from extensive meta-analysis that outcomes of
e-learning are just equivalent to any other way of deliverance through media keeping the
conditions followed in instruction based system constant. The second aspect is to find out
and assess the catchy attributes of the process that make it more influencing. Interaction,
immersion makes the e-learning process more appealing. The third aspect is the difficulty

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faced in order to adopt the method in post secondary education. The challenges faced by low
income students to avail the facility uncertain costs and possibility of fraud and unscrupulous
activity create deterrence to adopt the system (Bell & Federman, 2013).
The paper discusses the factors that have been successful in order to identify and
influence the e-learning procedure being widely accepted in the developing countries of the
world.. E-learning being popular mode of deliverance of higher education worldwide require
adoption of proper design for performance learning, motivating, making people aware
technologically and influencing behaviours of students. The study encounters a comparative
analysis made on two major stakeholders of developing countries; ICT experts and faculty
while using the responses from 76 sources collected in Delphi method and Analytical
Hierarchy Process. The content further makes recommendations regarding proper
implementation and maintenance of e–learning system that would enhance the abilities of
researchers in the developing world with highlighting the limitations as well as possibilities
to sustain quality (Bhuasiri et al., 2012).
The paper outlines the successful adoption of e-learning process in the western culture
that have an outlook of embedding technology with education process in order to achieve
higher productivity. This creates challenges and competition to developing countries in form
of immense pressure that is trying to strive internationally with equivalent competencies and
skills. The competition act as compulsion for these nations to synchronize technology in the
learning process to execute equal level of productivity. The focus of the paper is mostly on a
model of technology acceptance that play conceptual role in the framework and adopting of
e-learning. To make the system effective understanding and acceptance of the guidelines by
the end users are important. The indicators for successful implementation and continuances

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of e-learning have been analysed in the context of Jordanian Universities (Al-Adwan, Al-
Adwan & Smedley, 2013)
. The paper throws attention on one of the important factor of making the e-learning
appealing to students with subsequent strategy of how to achieve that. Importance of
engrossed attention and active mind of the student are pivotal here. Evoking interest through
application of games in the learning design can activate students’ mind and grab whole of
their attention to the learning process. The paper aims to find out how embedding gaming and
fun element can induce qualitative outcome in the learning curriculum. Two tests have been
conducted including and excluding the gaming component to assess the impact it has on the
e-learning procedure. The results derived out of the test on 38 students belonging to different
high schools reflects decrement in participation without gamification where as neutral in
participation with gamification (Amriani et al., 2013).
The paper represents an analysis that measures success of e-learning system amidst
the growing use of internet by the universities all around the world. The importance for this
measure stem from the wider access to internet by students and pursuance of online courses
coming from various institutions. A conceptual model has been designed and opinions from
33 experts have been noted down. Combining the suggestions made and relevant information
available research indicators were fixed. An extensive case study has been incorporated
taking 5 universities- Iran University of Science & Technology, Khaje Nasir Toosi University
of Technology , Tehran University, Shahid Beheshti University and Amir Kabir University.
Based on the answered questionnaire from 369 responder the model was built and measured
the success of e-learning (Saba, 2012).

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The paper sheds light on the outcomes after adopting and using e-learning system in
the education system. Three systems have been conceptualised and their outcomes are
represented here. The outcome assessed from the adoption builds perspectives about
academic performances, learning assistance, assistance provided to a community. These
constructs of perspectives have been utilised to develop a model that further assess the end
result of adopting and applying e-learning. A longitudinal survey data has been collected
from 249 universities and with the help of learning management principle Partial least Square
test has been run to test the model under research. The results makes suggestion on how
assistance regarding perceived community building and learning impact students’
performance in academics (Islam, 2013).
The paper reinforces the effective implication that e-learning has on higher education
in the era of strongly evolving communication and information technologies. It mainly aims
to assess the evaluative component they possess and play in online programs which are
enormous in numbers with specific aspect to be taken care of in each program. A
methodology mix has been adopted to present the discussion. The methodology includes
combination of E-learning and Face to Face mode of teaching and learning and was applied
in the subjects like microeconomics, business administration, law and management to
evaluate the impact that the both kind of process convey to the learners. The outcome is quite
similar to that of the findings of other papers indicating greater participation by the students
backed by motivation (Novo-Corti, Varela-Candamio & Ramil-Díaz, 2013).
This paper depicts the role e-learning play in modern days of education. With
overtime expansion of horizon that educational programs offer the scope of distance learning
has become available as well as suitable. Whether e-learning is threat to the existence of
traditional class room learning method though ages can be answered from this discussion and

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quite interestingly the analysis portrays the inability of e-learning to eradicate conventional
methods. The efficacy of e-learning lies in the aid or assistance it provides in form of training
mostly computer or web based and channelled through electronic tools. Combination of aims
stemming from cognitive theory and practice consist the underlying research problem of the
paper that has been analysed with help of tools and techniques, using variables and
hypotheses of correlated research problem (Gnitecka, 2012).
This paper takes attention towards the detection and detailed analysis of the factors
causing dissatisfaction in the experience of e-learning process as mode of studies. The mode
of the paper is mostly investigative towards the reaction and responses student encounter as
well as the benefits and satisfaction derived in the process. Conducting survey of 424
students from different universities worldwide with the help of filled questionnaire the result
that has become quite evident is the self efficacy or efficiency of the student that determines
the perception of importance of the program, benefits achieved from it or satisfaction that the
learner receives which additively outlines the behavioural pattern of individual students. The
discussion in the paper also makes suggestion regarding enhanced effectiveness influenced
by interaction in learning activities, instructions given in multimedia with applying proper
model (Liaw, 2012).
The paper enlightens about the importance of underlying assumptions in the design of
information technology that need to be understood since these are reshaping our society and
educational system around the world. Implementation of e-learning is one of the applications
of technology in the education system that advances the learning process with cost efficiency
and equivalent quality of any instructor-led classrooms. The paper contains the result of a
survey conducted on students pursuing varied online courses. The considerations that should
be maintained in the e-learning process have been discussed in order to let the program

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promote success in the motives it has at core. The author presents analysis of the examination
of critical factors bringing success as perceived by students involved in professional online
courses (Puri, 2012).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion of various article it can be summarized that in the growing
world of technology and prolific information base, learning via electronic media or web tools
are not only on rise but also necessary to bring down distance to null and summon students at
one platform or web classroom that is virtual yet similar in evoking efficacy. Adoption of e-
learning by universities around the world and pursuance of courses online indicate the
growing importance of it as substitute to class-room training or learning process.

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