The e-learning applications and their processes include web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms and digital collaboration. The investigator adopted the descriptive survey method and used a simple random technique for collecting data from 200 B.Ed. trainees studying at the self-financing college of education in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu have been taken as the population for the present study. Teaching methods, techniques, approaches and strategies determination shift from teacher-centred instruction to learner-centred instruction. Teachers’ Dominance of teachers will be substituted by knowledge domination. In the present study, there is a significant difference in the mean scores of awareness of e-learning between the groups of B. Ed. trainees with regard to the residence of the B.Ed. trainees.  Hence, the B.Ed. students now learn the information and communication technology resources and their applications in the pedagogy of the school subjects. The rural B.Ed. students to know and try to access the resources available on the internet.

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Keywords: Awareness, e-Learning, B.Ed. Trainees.