research project: final paper

The computer and the internet have become a significant part of our daily life. People share ideas using the internet, and this has changed a lot in the way people study, work, and spend free time. Most academic institutions are making essential strides towards improving the overall performance of their students. Online learning helps to enhance easy access to efficient learning and teaching, and enhancing learner’s academic efficiency. The research explores the effect of online learning and students’ achievement. Comment by Chenbo Xi: Great! I can see here is your major claim and it is clearly identified. You claim that online learning provide easy access to efficient learning that enhance learner's academic efficiency as a result. But this is just a hypothesis, so make sure to conclude your final result in your final paper because the result might come out differently. And I can see your purpose of the research here: explore the effect of online learning and student's achievement. Although you might forgot to indicate your research question, I can still figure your research question: How does online learning help students with their academic performance? It is answerable. Well done. Comment by Ashlee Thao Vo: I think this is your main claim? The rest of your subheadings are technically your reasons :)

· Major Claim 1: Improves Technical Skills of Students Comment by Chenbo Xi: I can see here is one of your claim to explain how online learning might benefit student's academic performance. But I think you are missing your reason based on it.

Evidence: Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) system in the last few decades has become popular due to the increasing use of multimedia technology, email, internet, intelligent tutoring system, and email (B2B, 2019). Even the primary online courses in tertiary education require a student to have computer skills. Colleges have devoted resources to develop e-learning progress to increase student’s skills and save time. The majority of university professors use email to communicate with their learners. Also, the instructors use different preferences and teaching style that has demonstrated to have a positive effect on student’s academic performance. Comment by Chenbo Xi: Evidence is well indicated, but remember you supposed to use the evidence to support and explain the reason of the claim.

· Reason 1: The technical skills help students to navigate diverse programs and learning management systems. The knowledge gained in online education is helpful in the workplace. Certain roles require that require exceptional digital skills in business, marketing, and IT. Students become more confident and competent in different skills needed to succeed in today’s world. For example, social media has changed the way people communicate and how customer service is enhanced. Thus, with online education, the learners will learn how to use various platforms to drive staff engagement. Comment by Chenbo Xi: make sure the reason is always before the evidence. So make sure you rearrange the order or use relevant evidence to support your reason in your final paper. Comment by Chenbo Xi: True example! Advanced technology actually change the way how people communicate and interact. Comment by Ashlee Thao Vo: I kind of feel like reason 1 and 2 are really similar and maybe you can combine them and solidify your argument even more!

· Reason 2: It improves the career prospects for faculty and students. Online learning increases the employability of the students that have successfully obtained online qualifications. Comment by Chenbo Xi: Another reason here is clearly identified and well explained.

Evidence: Research from the University showed that 44% of students undertaking online studies had better employment standing as they got full-time job in less than a year after graduation (Luaran, Samsuri, Nadzri, & Rom, 2014). Further, 45% of this student received a surge in their salary attributed to the new computer skills achieved in their studies. Additionally, there is an improvement in technical professions among faculty members as they work to incorporate audio and video materials in their courses. Comment by Chenbo Xi: Great! Your evidence is clearly stated to support your claim!

· Major claim 2: Decrease Workload Increasing Efficiency

Reason 1:The online learning utilizes instructional design to device materials that maximizes the chances of students to understand their course. The method is straightforward for learners as it has an effective outcome. Comment by Chenbo Xi: Reason is well addressed and it is clearly explained. Comment by Ashlee Thao Vo: Maybe elaborate more on what instructional design these programs, like saying they provide step by step instructions or video guides

Evidence 1: According to Xu & Jaggars (2013), the straightforward approach ensures that the complexity of the course minimized. The effectiveness of the outcome help to make the program in a way that students can use the knowledge gained to solve future challenges correctly and with minimal effort. Comment by Chenbo Xi: Evidence is also presented to support your reason. Just make sure to elaborate more based on the evidence.

Reason 2: The instructors need to improve course delivery and reduce workload. The tutors do offer timely feedback to learner’s assignments. The researchers believe that timely feedback is necessary for the learning process of students and often has an impact on the performance of the learners. Online tutors offer comprehensive feedback that highlights their weaknesses, strength, and how a particular student can improve. The instructors help to enhance performance through cognitive, diagnostic, and prescriptive feedback. Therefore, even with the decreased workload, the tutors are able to highlight the important aspects of learning. Comment by Ashlee Thao Vo: Maybe this shouldn't be an entire reason/evidence, but you can use this point to further your first reason. ex: online learning helps improve course delivery and reduce workload and thus should be a reason that online learning is beneficial for students Comment by Chenbo Xi: This reason applies to your claim very well. But make sure you also use credible evidence to support this reason and enhance your claim.

Methodology (in progress) Comment by Ashlee Thao Vo: I think the format of your outline is a little bit confusing, the methodology, results, etc. I think those should be elements to take into consideration within a subheading/reason

· A mixed-method research technique was developed to ascertain the significant aspect that influences the academic performance of tertiary learners (Kemp & Grieve, 2014). Quantitative data gathered in the form of interviews and questionnaires. The qualitative data gathered through online focus group discussion.

Results (not yet collected my own survey data) Comment by Chenbo Xi: You can actually do in-person interviews to ask students around you, and discover answers by your own. Such as questions: do you prefer an online class than in class lecture? And how do you think online class help with your academic performance. Do you score higher? etc...

· In the questionnaires, learners were asked to identify the essential factors that influenced academic performance in E-learning. The major aspects identified entail tuition and school expenditure, poor lecturer, family duties, work responsibilities, poor learning environment, peer pressure, and family feuds. The significant benefits of the learning entailed enhanced technical skills of learners and decrease workload efficiency. The respondent in the interview ranked the factors on low and high efficiency.

· The questionnaires on online learning showed that a majority of respondents (46.5%) preferred Blackboard Collaborate, 17.8% discussion forum, 12.5% e-tutor presentation forum, 3.5% online quizzes forum, and tutor-exchange forum 7.2%

Discussion

· The results of the study show that e-learning affects various factors. The online learning enhances the technical skills of learners and decreases workload. From the survey, e-learning can save time, reduce workload, and improves the technical capabilities of workers. It can help to lessen the burden of work and ensure that student learn what is essential (Arkorful and Abaidoo, 2014). Also, online learning reduces complexity generally associated with traditional knowledge. Comment by Chenbo Xi: students Comment by Chenbo Xi: make sure to elaborate more with this claim. And possibly add contradictions to make further arguments in your paper. For example: studies also show that e-learning also causes negative effects such as students might not truly learn things from the lecture because they could somehow cheat on some online quizzes...

· The recommendation for the instructors is that they should enhance the presence of academic advisors through feedback. They should continuously review the quality of materials used in the course to match industrial demand. The content will establish a reader-friendly atmosphere for learning to stimulate a higher level of critical thinking. The knowledge should help in developing a competent workforce. Also, they should access and monitor the pace of courses and deadlines offered for completion of assignments. It will assist learners in having adequate time to cover readings, assignments, and research vital for their educational development and enhanced academic performance. Comment by Ashlee Thao Vo: This is an interesting point, I agree that integrating online learning with traditional school settings can go hand in hand in benefiting each other

Conclusion Comment by Chenbo Xi: The structure of the conclusion is well established which you highlighted most of the important claims you want to demonstrate in your paper. In general, your outline is well-organized and easy to read and follow because you explained your points in detailed. Although there are few grammatical errors and typos, it is easy to understand what you are trying to say. Just make sure your writing order is correct (always the reason first, then show the evidence to enhance your claim). Also, I recommend you to provide some contradiction points in your paper to make your arguments more interesting and attracted to the reader. So that the readers understand what are the major content you want to deliver to them as your main purpose of this research. Overall, you did an excellent job!

The study has explored the effect of online learning on higher education. The literature review discussed how e-learning improved technical skills and reduced workload. The paper shows that people share ideas using the internet, and this has changed a lot in the way people study, work, and spend free time. Most academic institutions have made essential strides towards improving the overall performance of their students. The methodology of the study is both qualitative and quantitative. In the discussion, online learning helps to enhance easy access to efficient learning and teaching enhancing, learner’s academic efficiency. Comment by Chenbo Xi: in higher Comment by Ashlee Thao Vo: I would suggest maybe cutting this part out in explicitly saying "the methodology" or "in the discussion" and simply go over what the references you used showed as a summary of your research paper

References Comment by Chenbo Xi: Reference should be center aligned in APA format.

Arkorful, V. and Abaidoo, N. (2014). The Role of e-Learning, the Advantages and Disadvantages of Its Adoption in Higher Education. International Journal of Education and Research, 2, 397-410.

B2B, C. (2019, May 28). How Online Learning Can Improve Academic Performance. Retrieved from https://digitalmarketinginstitute.com/en-us/blog/how-online-learning-can-improve-acade mic-performance.

Kemp, N., & Grieve, R. (2014). Face-to-face or face-to-screen? Undergraduates opinions and test performance in classroom vs. online learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01278

Luaran, J. @ E., Samsuri, N. N., Nadzri, F. A., & Rom, K. B. M. (2014, May 22). A Study on the Student's Perspective on the Effectiveness of Using e-learning. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814014451.

Xu, D., & Jaggars, S. S. (2013). The impact of online learning on students’ course outcomes: Evidence from a large community and technical college system. Economics of Education Review, 37, 46–57. doi: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.08.001