Open AccessA Comparative Study on Effectiveness of Online and Offline Learning in Higher Education
Author(s) -
Padmalini Singh,
Rupesh Sinha,
Wei Lun Koay,
Kok Ban Teoh,
Prajna Pramod Nayak,
Chung Hong Lim,
Avinas Kumar Dubey,
Abhijit Das,
Iqbal Faturrahman,
Dwi Nita Aryani
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of tourism and hospitality in asia pasific
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2685-8800
pISSN - 2654-7945
DOI - 10.32535/ijthap.v4i3.1212
Subject(s) - online and offline , bachelor , online learning , mode (computer interface) , higher education , distance education , grasp , medical education , population , covid-19 , mathematics education , psychology , computer science , sociology , medicine , political science , multimedia , demography , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , programming language , operating system
The objective of the study is to assess the effectiveness of online and offline learning through higher education. The sudden outbreak of Covid-19 in various part of the world in 2020 has severely affected the educational institutions in various countries. Students were affected in the way to accept the hybrid form of learning and also grasp the interest towards the classes that were conducted online. The study aims to investigate the effectiveness of online and offline education in higher education. The study was carried out in India, Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries with 100 respondents among which major responses were from the youth population studying in Bachelor’s program, Diploma and Master’s mostly. The findings indicated that the effectiveness of online education is dismal, as students find it difficult to adjust to the online mode of education and the offline mode of education remains the most preferred mode of education.