E-Learning Experience of PSU Students in the Basic Economics Subject

Abstract

The huge popularity of the internet as a social networking, business and educational tool paved the way for the growth of websites that make it possible to strengthen brand and professional positions either in the organization, industry or educational institutions. Integrating this online technology in the teaching-learning process through designing and developing a course website is essential as it enhances communication between the teachers and students. A website can be a mean to distribute information and provide support to students and serves as a virtual presentation of what an organization is doing and offering to its clients, stakeholders and interested parties.

With the communication technology getting more advanced, taking advantage of it in the teaching-learning process is an opportunity for any faculty members or students in any HEI like the Pangasinan State University, to be highly considering off.

This study is aimed at knowing the perception of the learners who used the e-learning methodology for the first time in taking their examination in the subject Basic Economics in PSU Lingayen Campus. Aside from knowing what the respondents felt during and after utilizing the online technology, the relationship of their computer-related variables and their acceptability of the e-learning methodology as well as their level of computer skills competence.