Preparedness of a Primary School in the Implementation of E-learning in Social Science Subjects

This research discusses the state of preparedness of The Nazareth School in an e-learning implementation based from its teachers’, students’, and administrators’ readiness indicators along the factors in Khan’s global e-learning framework. The researcher employed descriptive survey instruments to gather relevant data from the participants of this study. Data were analyzed and descriptive results given leading to a thorough discussion of the participants’ preparedness indicators on all eight dimensions that affect the state of The Nazareth School’s preparedness. Results revealed that the Nazareth School showed high level of preparedness in the pedagogical and evaluation aspects while the interface design and evaluation dimensions were found out to be ready but is in need of a few improvements. Management, resource support, and institutional factors were also concluded as ready in view of the very high percentage weight agreement obtained from the responses of the administrators while the technological aspect received an average agreement percentage weight placing it in the ready but needs a few improvements in the readiness category which holds the same with the technical skills of teachers and students, a factor that is also considered in the ethical aspect. The summary of these results concluded that The Nazareth School is determined to be ready but needs few improvements in its preparedness state.

Keywords -learning, Online learning, Digital learning, Implementation preparedness, Readiness state, E-learning adoption, Education