Impact and perception of e-learning: pre-post surveys and evaluations / Fahmeeda Adib Azhari

Nowadays e-learning is been actively practised in the tertiary education to provide a better learning environment for the students. E-leaming was recently implemented in the Principles of Pathology, a core subject for second year Bachelor of Pharmacy programme. This new initiative is one of the as a ways to vary the student learning medium by doing away from face-to-face interaction in the classroom. The purpose of this research is to study the pharmacy student's perception on e-learning intervention in pathology subject and the effect of the student's academic achievement on the perception of e-leaming. The Constructivist Online Leaming Environment Survey (COLLES) was used to assess the student perception one-learning application, while pre- and post-test design was used to study the effect of student's academic achievement following the e-leaming intervention. Data collected from 196 second year pharmacy students, revealed that students had an optimist perception of e­ leaming application in this course and there was significant increase in gaining knowledge following the e-leaming intervention. Result showed, Reflection(3.98 ±0.47) and Tutor Support (4.30 ±0.34) are significantly increase in actual COLLES score. This might be due to the activities provided had develop their critical thinking and there are immensely lecturers' involvement throughout the e-learning session respectively. Statistical test indicated that the student's perception on e-leaming is not correlated with knowledge gained post e-leaming intervention. The students felt that e-learning can be beneficial for them in term of increasing their knowledge, building up teamwork and flexibility time of study.