A Qualitative Enquiry into Five

Students’ Experience With Online

Learning

By: Omar Christie

 • The purpose of a literature review is to collect
relevant, timely research on your chosen topic,
and synthesize it into a cohesive summary of
existing knowledge in the field. This then
prepares you for making your own argument on

Importance of that topic, or for conducting your own original

research.

Doing Literature • It also identifies the need for additional research

(justifying your research) Identify the

Review relationship of works in context of its

contribution to the topic and to other works.
Place your own research within the context of
existing literature making a case for why further
study is needed.
Literature Review
Organization

• Thematic. I have found some recurring central themes; I will

organize my literature review into subsections that address different
aspects of the topic.
• I choose this organization strategy because it makes it easy for me
to highlight themes that I have identified as important to my
research. This organization can also identify gaps in the literature
reviews and also themes or areas that lock studies. It also decrease
the duplication of information on certain topics, and it also
accommodate chronological outline of themes quite easily without
repeating information.
Databases/Sources
• ProQuest Central is the largest, multidisciplinary, full-text database
available in the market today. This resource provides access to 47 of
ProQuest's complete databases, with a variety of content types across over
175 subjects, making this the broadest single research resource in the
world.
• Springer Nature's database and software solutions provide user-friendly
resources to conduct research quickly and effectively. It is the world's most
comprehensive online collection of scientific, technological and medical
journals, books and reference works.
• Also use Google Scholar that is a search engine that connects to multiple
databases include some that you can add. A database that was found during
the research is Taylor and Francis Online which specialize in information
for the global academic & scientific, professional and commercial
communities.
 5 Observation About My Research
1. Most of the research are centre
around post-secondary online
learning.
4. Few studies examined the
interrelationship between diverse
dropout factors.
3. Online learning is also refereed to
as e-learning, distributed learning,
network learning web-base learning,
among others. It also have slightly
2. Most research consistently focus
differences in meaning in different
on the increasing popular demand of
studies like it is self placed pre-
online learning.
recorded course, it is enabled by
technology to offer class at a
distance but with structured time and
schedule, etc.
5. All the research I found around my
research title uses thematic
organization for their literature
review.
 I am going to use the theory that I will be
using is:

To have a good experience with online

learning then there should be a healthy
Theory balance between social behavior and access
to technologies.

The lock of either lead to dropouts during

online learning, something which the
pandemic has expose the glaring unreadiness.

1. limited exploration of the role of
parents, guardians, and companion in
online learning. I will be looking
intensively at this to determine if
one's company affects the likelihood
of dropping out during online
learning.
Gaps
2. Limited research in how
technology distribution in third
world countries such as Jamaica
affects online learning. I am in a
privilege position of living in a third
world country to explore this topic in
deeper detail.
3. Financial capability is not properly
explored especially in third world
economy. I will research all the
factors surrounding this including
having to work, affording the
technologies and paying for classes
and upkeep.