Assessment Report on Online Learning and COVID-19 Impact - BMAF006-20

This report, prepared for the Basic Statistics and ICT Skills module (BMAF006-20), explores the multifaceted aspects of online learning. It begins with an introduction to the concept of online learning, also known as e-learning, and its increasing relevance in contemporary education. The report then delves into the advantages of online learning, highlighting efficiency, accessibility in terms of time and place, and affordability. Conversely, it addresses the disadvantages, including potential lack of focus, technological issues, and the sense of isolation that can arise. The report includes a discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on daily life in the UK focusing on health, economic, and social care aspects. It also uses statistical data with a line chart to present the impact of COVID-19. The report concludes by summarizing the benefits and drawbacks of online learning, emphasizing its convenience while acknowledging its potential negative effects on physical well-being, and provides references to support the analysis.

Basic Statistics and ICT
skills

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Describe online Learning
 Advantages of Online learning
 Disadvantages of online learning
 Conclusion
 Reference

Introduction
The following PPT is related with the online
Learning and its positive and negative impacts.
Online Learning is related with students whom
are intending to learn a subject can study its
content over the internet. It is also known as E
learning. It is one of the distance learning which
is carried over the internet.

Describe online Learning
Online learning is when a person gets education from
anywhere in the world and can schedule according to
the timing of their own choice. It is the carried on a
virtual platform which will give access to the
classroom without the physical presence in the class.
Students whom are not capable of learning at pace
which the teacher teaches have the option of taking
the repeated class for the session (Tsai and et.al.,
2018).

Advantages of Online learning
 Efficiency: online learning helps in learning the new
things more efficiently as it can also access other sources
for detailed knowledge of the topic.
 Accessibility of time and place: It allows to learn from
anywhere and anytime according to the convenience of the
learner.
 Affordability: Online courses are available at cheaper rates
as it is avail and provided to may of the student and the
cost is incurred is only at once to prepare the classes.

Disadvantages of online learning
 Lack of Focus: The main concern with the online learning
is the ability to concentrate on the screen for the longer
period of time.
 Technology Issues: Many of the students faces problems
related to internet failure, system failure, etc.
 Sense of Isolation: It feels like that the individual is
dealing with isolation as the person have to take the
classes from one place and does not have the access to the
environment (Ragusa and Crampton, 2018).

Conclusion
From the above PPT it can be concluded that online learning
is helpful as well as it helps in saving the time as well as the
cost of the students and is very convenient in nature which
increases the efficiency of the learner. On the other hand
these facilities have further deteriorated the physical well-
being of humans.

Reference
 Heckel, C. and Ringeisen, T., 2019. Pride and anxiety in
online learning environments: Achievement emotions as
mediators between learners' characteristics and learning
outcomes. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 35(5),
pp.667-677.
 Tsai, Y.H. and et.al., 2018. The effects of metacognition on
online learning interest and continuance to learn with
MOOCs. Computers & Education, 121, pp.18-29.