The role of digital materials: student engagement and output in E-learning

Abstract

The study is concerned with how tertiary-level students use digital materials to adapt and engage themselves in the E-learning environment. Moreover, it also focuses on the problems students face during E-learning and finds out the possible solutions to particular issues. As the system of E-learning environment is new in the field of education, both the students and teachers face some difficulties adapting to this new learning environment. This study aims to find out how students are adapting and engaging themselves in the E-learning environment by utilizing digital materials, the advantages they are getting from E-learning, the problems they are facing, and the possible solutions to them produce a better output. For this research, the study uses a closed-ended and opinion-based questionnaire online survey for the students and a semi-structured questionnaire interview for the teachers to collect information for analyses. After analyzing the results, both the students and teachers face some difficulties, such as internet issues, electricity problems, not finding the classes interesting, lack of concentration, monotonous, lack of interaction, and teacher training in E-learning. Finally, it recommended some suggestions to overcome the problems for producing a better output by engaging the students in the E-learning environment.