Exploring E-Learning Environment of Senior Secondary School Learners: Basis for Enhancing Online Instruction Materials

This proposed study aimed to explore the e-learning environment of Secondary Senior leaner in an online distance learning set-up. More so, the result of this study will become the basis for creating an online instructional framework for the overall academic performance of learners amidst the new normal education.The research design that was used and utilized in this study was sequential exploratory mixed method design as it focused on the exploration of HUMSS Senior High School learners, particularly with their challenges and coping mechanisms in an e-learning environment – which can be considered as an emergent variable. In a 2012 review of mixed methods, Johnson and Christensen demonstrated that they have useful and valid data using a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Cresswell & Clark (2011) stated that sequential study design produces qualitative data from the initial phase to a greater number of the collected samples from the second phase, based on certain participants. The demographic profile of the learner participants showed that the majority were female. This has implied the view that many female learners were enrolling in the Senior Secondary School since the career pathways in this strand are more on education, communication, social work, and psychology.