Undergranduate Students’ Opinion Toward E-Learning : Locality and Course of Education Perspectives

Abstract

The present study adopts a survey research design to examine the opinions of undergraduate students towards e-learning. It further seeks to compare the opinions of undergraduate students residing in rural and urban areas and those enrolled in professional and non-professional programs. Opinion towards e-learning scale self-developed by investigator was employed in the current study. For this purpose, sample of 500 undergraduate students belonging to professional and non-professional courses were collected from government and private colleges from Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand. Collected data were organized and tabulated on the basis of scores and used Mean, Standard deviation and t-test for analyzing collected data. Results showed that there was no significant difference between the opinions of rural and urban undergraduate students towards e-learning. However, a significant difference was found between students enrolled in professional and non-professional courses, professional students exhibiting a more favorable opinion towards e-learning than their non-professional counterparts. The study concludes that while locality does not significantly influence undergraduate students' opinions towards e-learning, the nature of the academic programme plays an important role.