Impacts of e-learning on pupils at the kindergarten: a case study at Rev. Wilson B basic school in Mfantseman Municipal

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.