Full Online Learning and Blended e-Learning: A Comparison of Students’ Performance

Teaching First-year Engineering in an Online Learning Environment

“…Arguments for the use of online learning include potential to increase accessibility in terms of time and location [17] and inclusion [15]. Arguments against online learning include: issue of existing internet accessibility [13,14], digital competencies [14,16,18], academic integrity [13,16], limited sense of community [12,14,16,18], limited access to hardware [18], communication issues [12,16,18], pacing [12,18], and effects on at-risk students [16,19]. There has been a lack of agreement in the literature with respect to the results of the use of blended learning in terms of both student attitudes and performance (see [20]).…”