Attitude of University Students towards E-learning in West Bengal

Dhiman Kar¹, Birbal Saha^1, and Bhim Chandra Mondal²

¹Department of Education, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, India

²Sponsored Teachers’ Training College, Purulia, West Bengal, India

Cite this paper:
Dhiman Kar, Birbal Saha and Bhim Chandra Mondal. Attitude of University Students towards E-learning in West Bengal. American Journal of Educational Research. 2014; 2(8):669-673. doi: 10.12691/education-2-8-16

Abstract

E-learning is now emerging as the advance paradigm for higher education. The present study was conducted for measuring the attitude of university students towards e-learning in West Bengal by taking 308 University level students from four Universities namely Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Jadavpur University, Visva-Bharati and Gourbanga University. The survey method has been adopted for the present study and stratified random sampling technique has been used in selecting the samples. A well-designed questionnaire, developed by the Investigators has used to collect primary data. The result revealed that students’ have high attitude towards e-learning and their attitude scores did not differ significantly with their personal variables such as, gender, stream of study and residence.

Keywords:
e-learning attitude university students gender two-way ANOVA ‘t’ test

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