The Impact of E-Learning on Teaching and Learning Process: A Cross Case Study Approach

Abstract

The primary purpose of the study is to understand the impact of e-learning to the teaching and learning process of the Primary and Secondary schools in Mumbai, India. E-learning is playing a vital role in the existing educational setting, as it changes the entire education system and becomes one of the greatest preferred topics for academics. In an educational environment, there are lots of learning-related processes involved, and great amounts of potential rich data are generated in educational institutions continuously in order to extract knowledge from those data for a better understanding of learning-related processes. This qualitative paper uses a cross-case design method of primary and secondary schools in Mumbai, India. The interviews were scheduled and recorded accordingly. For better understand and clarity it was transliterated. The cases were analyzed individually tracked by a cross-case synthesis of the results. Validity was done as per the academic guideline’s mandatory for the excellence of the case study analysis. The results indicate that Teachers viewed learning as a beneficial tool for improving instruction delivery and developing knowledge acquisition skills through the transfer of learning. This study provides a framework for experts who may be inclined for starting their Primary and Secondary schools in Mumbai, India. It also delivers the impact of e-learning on social change observed by the four colleges who are running the under graduate program in India. Research has shown that such studies have not surveyed the impact of e-learning on social change across the globe and India. Usually, most studies on Primary and Secondary schools in Indian setup implement the quantitative method- this study uses the cross-case analysis which is considered as modern and unique in its research.