Online Education has now become an essential part in the education system as

an alternative option for the students to continue in their studies (Li & Lalani, 2020). It
becomes more prevalent ever since the outbreak COVID-19 in our country. Now,
DepEd implemented online learning as a solution to the education in this pandemic to
maintain providing quality education on the 8 th of June of the year 2020 (DepED, 2020).
In this pandemic, students opt to online learning than modules because of limited
resources that brings in with modular learning. Online learning enables the student to
interact with their teachers without meeting physically and limiting their educational
growth (Stern, 2020).

This prevents them from being infected with COVID-19 that would otherwise be
detrimental if they had gone to school. Online learning has its strengths and
weaknesses. In this research study, the researchers would seek to find the advantages
and disadvantages of online learning to provide a clear description on its effects on
students.

The focus of this study is to gain awareness of what are the advantages and
drawbacks of online education to the engineering students of University of Southern
Philippines Foundation.

Online learning has been transforming the education system for a considerable
time (Li & Lalani, 2020). Currently, it's an integral aspect, and a favored tool, within the
broader landscape of upper education. Online courses involve a greater amount
motivation and self-discipline than a classroom-based course. A classroom has one or
more instructors and at least a peer, who can hold a student in charge of their course-
work. In contrast, online courses involve students setting their own goals, tracking
progress they have made and meeting deadlines.

Distinctly, online education cannot provide many of the casual and relaxed
interactions between students, individuals, and groups have at an educational institute
(Simon, 2012). But how will students face this new environment and what will they gain
from it? This research will give some clues and also points as to what could be done to
support students who are presumably having struggle within the online setting of
education but also not to give them a trouble-free learning as people adapt in a struggle.
 Other researches provided evidences that online courses do less to market
student academic success and progression than do in traditional learning of physical
interaction between teacher and students. Taking an online class reduces student’s
achievements in a subject, as measured by grades, by about one- third of a typical
deviation (Jefferson and Paul, 2019).

This study aims at identifying the benefits and complications of the online
classes. This study begins with analyzing the online class composition of motivation of
the students in online learning and how it is different from the face-to-face classes.

This study focuses on using online education on the experience in online classes
of the engineering students in the University of Southern Philippines Foundation. The
research study assesses academic performance as such it won't include physical
activities such as physical education. The research group will also include other factors
to provide more in-depth and empirical results such as performance tasks and exams.

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Jefferson, F. and Paul, J. (2019, November 12). A Comparative Analysis of Student

Performance in an Online vs. Face-to-Face Environmental Science Course from
2009-2016. Digital Education.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2019.00007/full

Lalani, F. and Li, C. (2020, April 29). The COVID-19 pandemic has changed education
forever. World Economic Forum.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/coronavirus-education-global-covid19-
online-digital-learning/.

Official Statement. (2020, June 8). Republic of the Philippines Department of Education.
https://www.deped.gov.ph/2020/06/08/official-statement-4/

Stern, J. (2020). Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning. West Los Angeles
College. http://www.wlac.edu/online/documents/otl.pdf.
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https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/sites/default/files/attached-
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