Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 had a profound impact on our daily activities and
presented us with unprecedented challenges. As the dreadfulness of COVID-19
became clear, globally, governments closed schools in an attempt to curb the spread
of the virus impacting over 90% of the world’s enrolled learners. Governments
ensured that education continued via emergency remote learning/teaching approaches
with many deploying online learning solutions. Since then, e-learning has been part of
the curriculum in many Ghanaian schools. This study was therefore set up to
investigate the impacts of e-learning on kindergarten pupils’ learning at Rev. Wilson
B Basic School. Therefore, all pupils and teachers in the school made up the
population. The descriptive survey design was adopted, questionnaire was used to
collect data from the 24 respondents. The study found that positive impacts of e learning on kindergarten pupils’ learning included improving the quality of pupils’
learning, making pupils learning convenient and flexible, and motivating pupils. Also,
negative impacts of e-learning were: limiting human interaction between pupils and
the teacher, lack of human contact affecting quality of learning, and putting financial
burden on parents and guardians. It was then recommended that basic schools
especially kindergartens should exploit the benefits of e-learning by ensuring that
pupils are exposed to the system. Also, the Ghana Education Service together with the
ministry of education must ensure that the right teaching and learning materials that
can support the implementation of e-learning in schools are supplied to the various
basic schools in Ghana.
Description:
A Dissertation in the Department of Educational Foundations,
Faculty of Sciences Education, Submitted to the School of
Graduate Studies in Partial fulfilment
of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of
Master of Education
(Educational School Supervision)
in the University of Education, Winneba
