1 Investigation of the Effectiveness of Online Education on Employees Productivity Ibrahim M. Obeidat Dept of Computer Science, George Washington University Key words: e-learning Abstract: This quantitative study is designed to discover and investigate the productivity level of the employees in relationship to the degree they earned , it campers the productivity of those employees who earned their degree by online institutions and the productivity of those who earned their degree by conventional classroom institutions. Employees with master degrees and PhD degrees were selected from different organizations in Jordan, and the collected data was analyzed using ANOVA and the T- test. The result of the study was that there is no statistical significance difference between those who received their degree by online education and those who finished their degree by a conventional classroom education. 1 Introduction Online education is well-known by an educational effort where the instructor and the student can be separated by large geographical area. The field of online education had been faced numerous development through out the last years. One of the important characteristics of online education is the communication between the students and the instructor, which is done through the e-mail, or blackboard, or any other electronic tools, just like posting the student work on the web, audio or video conferencing .There is no face-to-face communication between them. However the universities and companies in Jordan prefer to hire employees because they graduated from accredited traditional institutions and that means there exist a gap in understanding the effectiveness between the online education and the classroom education, and this leads the companies’ recruiters in Jordan to give more chances to the traditional educated over the online educated. One of the key causes for this perception is the limited knowledge of these companies about the effectiveness of the online educated, compared with traditional classrooms educated. The Purpose of this study is to explore and assess the effectiveness performance of employees in Jordan universities and companies who earned their degree from an accredited colleges compared to those who earned their degree from traditional class room colleges, this quantitative study will employ only those who finished their higher educations, masters and PhD’s, in both ways online and traditional. This will help both the recruiters and the employee to focus their effort while choosing and perusing their education , the finding of this research will help the recruiters better taking their