
Conventional Education & Online Education in Engineering: A Case Study
Author(s) -
Somnath Bhattacharyya,
Anup Kumar Thander
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1797/1/012069
Subject(s) - online teaching , curriculum , mathematics education , west bengal , engineering education , the internet , online learning , engineering , medical education , computer science , pedagogy , psychology , sociology , multimedia , engineering management , medicine , world wide web , socioeconomics
Online education is gaining ground since last few decades all over the world including India. But so far it is utilised mainly in various alternative courses or knowledge-enhancing courses beyond regular curriculum which learners could opt as per their convenience and interest using internet access, particularly if the situations in Indian universities are considered. But under COVID-19 pandemic situation, the utility and use of online education is suddenly multiplied and extended and is made inclusive within regular university semester courses also. Undergraduate engineering is one of the very prominent areas to mention. Accordingly, in the present study, the authors tried to show that in the last even semester, how the online education served the basic subjective needs of engineering students so far as their learning is concerned. For that purpose, a students' feedback data based on the online teaching provided is analysed in detail, which are taken from one of the standard engineering colleges of West Bengal. Corresponding results are analysed for end semester examination conducted online and is compared finally with relevant data obtained from evaluation of conventional education for some interesting discussion.