Abstract

Background: Universities were abruptly obliged to move to e-learning as a result of the Corona pandemic,
and the University of Tripoli's College of Nursing was one among such institutions. From there, the research
came to show the reality of using e-learning in the College of Nursing at the University of Tripoli, Libya.
Under these circumstances.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to compare the academic achievement of second semester nursing
students in the faculty of nursing before and during the Corona pandemic.
Method: Using the quantitative comparative research design with all population sampling, a total of 148
nursing students were utilized as the sample. 88 of which were allotted before Corona pandemic while
samples of 60 during the Corona pandemic. Data were collected from the college study and exams office,
which were the final grade of the selected course in the second semester of the academic year 2019-2020 and
the first semester of the academic year 2020-2021. The collected data were statistically analyzed using SPSS
version 24, with t-test used to compare the effect of e-learning on student achievement in Fundamentals of
Nursing 2 course (NU113) during the Corona pandemic to that of face-to-face learning prior to the Corona
pandemic.
Results: The results revealed that the average academic achievement scores for students before the Corona
pandemic with face-to-face education was 56.76 and that the average academic achievement scores for
students during the Corona pandemic with e-learning was 56.23. Significance levels were set at α≤ 0.05 was
considered as statistically significant for all analyses of comparison between student scores before and
during the Corona pandemic. The results showed that there is no statistically significant difference in
academic achievement between students who studied e-learning and face-to-face education, with (p=0.868
> α). Ho is accepted, which means that the transition to e-learning rather than face-to-face education had no
negative impact on academic achievement, it was found that nursing students academic achievement is not
negatively affected by the Corona pandemic.
Conclusion: In this way, e-learning can be harnessed and developed to advance the nursing education
agenda. Further study is recommended to assess the impact of e-learning on students’ academic
achievement on other courses