Utilizing the E-Learning Through the

use of GENYO for Learning

Development of Students in St. Mary’s
Academy of Sta. Ana, Manila

SUBMITTED TO:

Ms. Sheena Mae Gracilla

Submitted by:

Bernardo, Princess Althea

Borres, Leyann Kurt

Ladion, Beljo

Limbo, Claire-Riza

Regio, Ena Charmagne

 CHAPTER I

Background of the Study/Introduction:

Educational Technology or E-Learning is the use of modern-day technology for learning

purposes whether it is in a classroom or at home. When it comes to teaching, it is best to use
thing or ways that they can easily access or can be interested in which for the current generation
means using technology. E-learning also gives teachers the freedom to customize or change the
lessons however they like or however they see fit that the students will be able to understand the
lessons. E-learning has become popular to the students of this generation because of its potential
for providing more flexible access to content and instruction at any time, from any place
(Adewumi, Ajisola & Olojo, 2012). Students get accustomed or used to using technology in their
daily lives it is important for schools to keep up with the evolutions of technology so that they
will be able to keep up with the interests of the students and be able to get the students to focus
on learning. With the advancements that technology, students will be able to access information,
assignment/tasks, and lesson through GENYO e-learning in a way so that it is convenient and
easy for them, and by making things easier students may be able to understand the lessons better
and be able to digest the information better for they are using something that they are familiar
with. Education today has evolved considerably because of advances in Web technology; the
Internet enables the ordinary person to have access to never-ending quantities of information and
knowledge efficiently and conveniently (Homavazir, 2015)

GENYO is a learning management system developed by Diwa Learning Systems Inc. for
schools around the Philippines to use for their students learning in school and “Learners
nowadays really engage in technology. We use GENYO as a way to motivate them to learn their
lesson easily, especially in Math. I use it to help my learners appreciate my subject,” as stated by
Sara Jane D. Pillerva who is a math teacher from Immaculate Heart of Mary in Paranaque. As of
the school year 2019-2020, St. Mary’s Academy of Sta. Ana Manila has implemented GENYO
e-learning into the current year's curriculum giving teachers a chance to teach or to test their
students with or through GENYO. With modern-day technology making quick changes to our
daily lives, and children and teens having adapted to having technology in their lives, it is best
that schools also take part in this change to be able to keep up with their students so that they
don’t lose their students to technology. With everything there comes pros and cons, or
advantages and disadvantages. With e-learning comes a number of advantages, e-learning is
good for capturing the interest of the current generation. E-learning is good for being able to
make learning easier for not just the students but also the teachers; it is good for being able to
keep students active in class for it uses something that most are familiar with which is
technology. E-learning is good for making the jobs of teachers easier and the experience of the
students more fun. Visual stimulation or making somebody more interested in something through
the use of visuals is also an advantage that e-learning has to the students. There are many more
advantages of e-learning but for now let the researchers give you some of its disadvantages, a
downside of e-learning is that the students may get even more dependent on technology than
they already are and might get too used to it being in their lives, and the interaction within
student to student may get less and less as the more they use e-learning. Knowing these
disadvantages may make schools not as open to using e-learning, but if you put the advantages
and disadvantages side by side and weigh the advantages to the disadvantages, one may be able
to properly judge this way of learning, and of course having only started not too long ago there
will be little tweaks that the programmers could still fix or change.

The effectiveness of GENYO e-learning to the students of St. Mary’s Academy of Sta.
Ana Manila is something that people should pay more attention to for using e-learning today can
be called an investment in a way that the school’s principal and subject coordinators have yet to
find out if GENYO can really help in the learning development of their students, and once they
decide whether or not GENYO is effective on their students they can choose on continuing the
use of GENYO in their school or if they should stop it. Today, technology leads the way to
productivity and the internet has become the vehicle of choice for markets and educational
institution (Pendidikan, 2013), which basically means that in today’s society, technology has
been what people use to be productive and that the internet has been what schools choose as their
means of moving forward and advancing. One of the main purposes of this study is to find out
whether o not technology in education or e-learning really is effective to students of different
levels and if it really is being utilized to its fullest, e-learning is something one may call
innovation in education for it is a new way or new method of teaching students. The technology
in education has been around as far back as 1924 where somebody had invented a testing
machine, the term e-learning has been around since 1999 (Epignosis LLC, 2014), but here in the
Philippines, e-learning has only been known for less than a decade, which is why the researchers
would like to study on GENYO for they would like to somehow put e-learning into a bigger and
brighter spotlight especially in the Philippines.
For their study, a group of researchers has decided to do a study on the utilization of
GENYO e-learning for learning development of students in St. Mary’s Academy of Sta. Ana
Manila. What is GENYO? Some may ask well GENYO e-Learning is a learning platform that
provides rich and engaging interactive multimedia content for the students so they can have fun
while enhancing their academic performance.

Statement of the Problem:

E-learning is something that could one day change our world and change the way people
look at technology in our day-to-day lives, so as the researchers general statement, they would
like to answer the question, How is GENYO e-learning helpful in education and is it being
properly utilized in schools? To help in answering the general statement, the researchers have
come up with the following three (3) sub-questions that may help them to answer the statement:

1. In what ways can e-learning help students do better in school?

2. How does GENYO e-learning help students learn better compared to learning without it?
3. What effect does GENYO e-learning have on the students?

Significance of the Study:

The final results of this study will be a benefit to the following:

Students: this study will be a benefit to students for this study will show or prove that e-learning
is something that actually helps students which will then have more schools implement e-
learning to the curriculum.

Teachers: This study will benefit teachers for if more schools use e-learning it means more
teachers jobs will be made easier for through GENYO or any other e-learning platforms because
through these platforms teachers will be able to give lessons, assignments, quizzes, seat works,
and etc. through these platforms.
Environment: This study will benefit the environment because if more schools use e-learning
they will be able to reduce the amount of paper that they use in a way that if teachers quiz their
students through an e-learning platform they will then be substituting the use of paper, and if
lesser people use paper the amount of trees chopped down to produce paper will then be
decreased.

Future Researchers: This study will be able to benefit future researchers as a basis of
information for their researcher on the topic or study.

Conceptual Framework:

School Works
Students of Saint -Homeworks
Mary's Academy -Quizzes
-Lessons To know if
utilizing E-
Learning in Saint
Mary's Academy
GENYO is an efficient way
Utilization of E- for students to
Learning study in an easier
Reading way
Materials

Scope and Delimitations:

Although the primary and elementary students also use GENYO e-learning, the
researchers have decided that they this study will focus or cover mainly the secondary or the high
school students for they will have a better understanding of GENYO e-learning; however the
researchers may interview some of the elementary teachers who also teach high school level to
see if e-learning has a different impact or effect on the different grade levels. The researchers
would also like to interview the Diwa personnel assigned to supervise the use of GENYO at St.
Mary’s Academy of Sta. Ana Manila.

Seeing as people have different opinions on the use of GENYO, the researchers may have
a hard time with the answers of the respondents if ever they may answer based on their own
opinions. The researchers may also have a hard time interpreting the opinions of the respondents
if ever they do not explain properly.