Comparative Analysis of Online E-Learning and Face To Face Learning: An Experimental Study

Online e-learning (online learning) has developed rapidly in the world. Few said that they were more comfortable to learn via online e-learning. Online e-learning fully support multimedia presentation and give effective interactions. Moreover, online e-learning not only gives students' competencies, but also creates self and collaborative learning processes. In the meantime, some people argued that the face to face learning will be heritage, but others denied it. However, online e-learning should have a wise management, good communication network, and online instructional product. In fact, the face to face learning establishes a meaningful and real interaction among students and lecturers, where it actually could not be substituted by online e-learning. Therefore, there were some people that supported the online e-learning, and another persisted on the face to face learning. This study gives answer that online e-learning can truly replace the face to face learning in the cognitive area. This study result shows that there was no different student skill obtained between the online e-learning and the face to face in algorithm and programming instructional at STMIK Bumigora tertiary institution. In other words, online learning can substitute the face to face learning in cognitive area.