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Kerollos Dawoud Professor Goeller Research in Disciplines: College! April 20th, 2021 Literature Review #4 Visual  Citation Akpınara, Ezgin. “The Effect of Online Learning on Tertiary Level Students' Mental Health during the Covid19 Lockdown.” FutureAcademy.org.uk, The European Journal of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2020, www.futureacademy.org.uk/files/data/fileManager/ejsbs288.pdf. summary The article talked about how Covid-19 and the overall shift into online learning caused students to suffer from a worse learning environment as well as possible mental health changes that came along with the change. The article also mentioned the results from a study that was conducted by the author. Author The author of the article is a Teaching Assistant at the University of Amsterdam. She also has her work published by The European Journal of Social and Behavioural Sciences and is thus peer-reviewed Key terms restrictive learning: limited opportunities for instructor and student to meanin...

 Kerollos Dawoud Professor Goeller Research in Disciplines: College! April 20th, 2021 Literature Review #1 visual     some of the data from the study the paper mentioned  Visual.  Citation Bettinger, Eric et al. "How Online College Classes Alter Student And Professor Performance". Cesinfo, vol 1, no. 1, 2014 , pp. 1-38. Summary   The article talked about a study the authors made at DeVry campus. The purpose of the study was to see what, if any, changes online learning has on the performance of the students. They calculate the average GPA and grade for the students who took a class online and compared the grades to those who took the same class in a more traditional environment. Authors All of the authors are Stanford university graduates or are associate professors at Harvard . They have spent years learning about various education methods, including online and traditional learning. The paper was published under the guidance of Stanford university and was a...

The graph helps illustrate the percentages of people in several income brackets. I can use it to show how many students do not have internet or computer access. This will be used to point out how less affluent students tend to a larger disadvantage when it comes to e-learning. Source: https://usafacts.org/articles/internet-access-students-at-home/

Kerollos Dawoud Professor Goeller Research in Disciplines: College! March 1st, 2021 Literature Review #3   Visual.   Picture of Nenagh Meredith Kemp Citation.     Kemp, Nenagh, and Rachel Grieve. "Face-To-Face Or Face-To-Screen? Undergraduates' Opinions And Test Performance In Classroom Vs. Online Learning". Frontiers, 2014, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01278/full. Accessed 1 Mar 2021. Summary .  The texts goes into detail about the setup of the two studies. The point of the studies was to find the difference, if any, between online learning compared to in-person learning. The studies themselves were relatively small group size, but all were in their 3rd  year in college. The first study did not find any difference academically when the students had to be thought online vs. a more traditional learning environment. The participants also expressed what was positive and negative about both ways of teaching. The second study had ...

Kerollos Dawoud Professor Goeller Research in Disciplines: College! February 26, 2021 Literature Review #2  Visual. Citation . Dhawan, Shivangi. "Online Learning: A Panacea In The Time Of COVID-19 Crisis - Shivangi Dhawan, 2020". SAGE Journals, 2020, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0047239520934018. Summary.  The author discusses how online learning suddenly became a necessity due to COVID-19 and how colleges now have to change to online learning so quickly.  She then does over the SWOC( Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, & Challenges.) eLearning has compared to typical education. Finally, Dhawan goes into detail for suggestions on what changes colleges could implement to improve the effectiveness of online learning. Author(s) .  Shivangi Dhawan- Shivangi an anassistant professor of Commerce at SGTB Khalsa College, the University of Delhi, for over 5 years and has finished writing 8 peer-reviewed articles on various topics. As she is an assi...

Kerollos Dawoud Professor Goeller Research in Disciplines: College! February 26, 2021 Research Proposal Working title Consequences of online learning on the human Psyche and academic performance Topic Description As technology has rapidly changed, it is now possible for students to be taught fully online. This new ability could have drastic differences in both the quality of education as well as unintended side effects on students. I will talk about the effects online education has on students, both academically and socially. As more and more students are educated partly and fully online, learning the consequences of online learning would be valuable to students and universities alike.  Research Question As technology has rapidly changed, it is now possible for students to be taught fully online. This new ability could have drastic differences in both the quality of education as well as unintended side effects on students. How might online college affect the academic and social lif...