An Analysis of Students Perception on Online Teaching-Learning Process Using Inferential Statistics: An Empirical Study with Special Reference to Indian Students

Authors

  • Dr.Manju Shree Raman, Dr.P.Praba Devi, Dr.M.Sudarsana Rao, Dr.N.Nithya

Keywords:

e-Learning, Online Learning, Students Perception, Satisfaction.

Abstract

The outbreak of COVID- 19 facilitates a new arena in the field of education. Though online learning has been at practice in every institution, the lockdown due to COVID-19 has led to an extensive use of the capabilities of Blackboard, Moodle’s, Lecture Capture system, and other software that facilitate online learning. The purpose of the present study is to assess the e-learning perceptions of the students.  A survey based research was carried out through a self-administered questionnaire, based on students  perception with regard to the online teaching-learning process carried out by educational institutions during Covid-19 lockdown period and the data was collected between March 2020 - May 2020 with an objective of assessing the perception of e- learning process among the students, identifying the barriers in the process of e-learning, to measure the satisfaction of the students on e-Learning process and to identify the strength and weakness of the e-learning system from students perspective.  The present study was done based on two important factors, perception on e-learning and barriers to e-learning and the data was collected from a total of 1089 students inclusive of both UG and PG programmes through google forms. The survey inferred that there is difference in the perception on e-learning processes with respect to gender of the students.  The study also shows that the internet infrastructure is an important factor to enable the students learns virtually. Students perceive that internet connectivity, Internet usage limits and the occurrence of online technical issues to have association with the successful e learning process.

Thus, the present study enables to understand the opinion of students on the widespread practice of the online-teaching which happens in almost all institutions in today’s scenario.

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Published

2022-07-25