ATTITUDE OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS TOWARDS E-LEARNING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The uprise of the coronavirus in December 2019 endangers the human species. The highly contagious deadly coronavirus is spreading rapidly. For this reason, the governments of different nations announce lockdown and social distancing. This scenario changed the basic livelihood a lot, the education system also changed due to the pandemic caused by the coronavirus.  Thus, the education sector becomes very much dependent on technologies. All the institutions of various nations become dependent on the e-learning method and in India e-learning becomes prevalent for a long period since 15 March 2020. E-learning which was being taken as an important modern way of teaching and learning in theories becomes active for more than 1 year and the students got the privilege to study using that method. Now after having practical experience of more than 1 year on the e-learning method it becomes necessary to get feedback from those students about this new teaching-learning method. For this reason, this study intended to explore the attitude toward e-learning among undergraduate college students during the Covid-19 pandemic period. The sample of the study is 150 undergraduate college students of the Purulia district of West Bengal, India. A mixed-method of research is being applied to analyze the data. This study revealed there is significant difference exists in the attitude toward e-learning between male and female undergraduate college students of Purulia district of West Bengal. This study also found that there is no significant difference exists in the attitude toward e-learning based on students’ location, stream, and caste.

 

Keywords: E-learning, Attitude, Covid-19 pandemic, Higher Education, Mixed Method Research.


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