Measurement of Performance Variations due to Student Interaction in an Asynchronous eLearning Environment

Aim of this research is to explore the importance of interactions in an asynchronous e-learning environment between students to improve the performance of the learning curve and to create a much more usable knowledge base. To this aim we performed several statistical tests to prove that a student improves his performance when an interactive environment is available. In particular, a panel of 14 students has been selected to attend a course of three lessons. Each lesson was divided in interactive and non interactive and was followed by an exam. Results were evaluated with a one way ANOVA and the analysis shows that the students achieved consistently a better performance under the interactive e-learning environment