PERCEPTION OF STUDENTS CONCERNING ONLINE LEARNING

Abstract

“Over the past decade, the web has had a profound impact on education by enabling the exceptional growth of online learning. Moreover, just as we were getting used to fully online courses, blended courses, courses that integrate online and face-to-face instruction, seem to be growing in similar, perhaps even more spectacular, manner. Add to that a plethora of emerging digital technologies like wikis, blogs, podcasting, social software, and high gaming technologies that are increasingly being incorporated into online or online portions of courses, and one is tempted to despair of ever making sense of online learning. The altered learning environments created by web-based technologies, not only eliminate barriers of time, space and arguably learning styles, providing increased access to higher education, they challenge our traditional notions of teaching and learning, and indeed higher education itself.” This research presents the impact of online education and differentiates an equivalent from face to face education and points out the similarities and differences between them. Discussing the obstacles to online education in India the research emphasizes the necessity for an equivalent and the way the presently conducted online education might be improved enormously through adequate and well-written reading materials, training of the teaching personnel especially for online education, providing online facilities, Internet connection, and IT facilities additionally to adequate infrastructure altogether the Educational Institutions. The article emphasizes the necessity for upgrading these institutions and providing Internet communication for interaction with the teachers and also introducing online courses. Drawing inspiration from various experiments and researches conducted on distance education in advanced countries, the article recommends rigorous and methodologically sound research in e-learning so on render the space education program best, meaningful, efficient and useful for the scholars who aspire to become more knowledgeable, more work efficient and be more productive in their jobs and occupations. The evidence clearly demonstrates that e-learning has changed the life of many of us in getting a good job especially within the public sector including Higher Learning Institutions. This is often an honest example before women, working people and socio-economically disadvantaged people to utilize the chance of distance mode of education to enhance the standard of life.