Engineering Students’ Online Learning Environment: Basis for Enhancement Program

This study aimed to evaluate the online learning environment of Mechanical, Industrial, and Computer engineering students of Lyceum of the Philippines in terms of the content of e-learning courses, navigation, usability, and e-learning teacher or assistant. These were assessed by seventy (70) engineering students of LPU-B during term break of AY 2020-2021 through a survey questionnaire. Descriptive analysis and one-way ANOVA showed that engineering students were positive in their online learning environment. The composite means of 3.1232 (SD=.69857) indicates that engineering students from LPUB agreed on the Content of the E-learning Course. Also, the assessment of their online learning environment in terms of navigation (3.15), usability (3.11), and eLearning teacher/assistant (3.18) are positive. When the means of BSIE, BSME, and BSCpE were compared, no significant differences in their e-learning environments were found as revealed by their respective F-value of .070, .562, 1.258, and .215 with probability values of .932, .573, .291, and .807, respectively. The findings were strengthened by the probability values (p>.05) when the Scheffe test was used. No significant difference was uncovered when males and females were compared by independent sample t-test. The results suggest that e-learning does not affect gender.  Practical implications were considered through the proposed enhancement program.

Keywords – Content, e-learning, engineering students, navigation, online classes