Open AccessADOPTION OF MOOCS AND ONLINE TEACHING AMIDST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, A STUDY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF STUDENTS AND FACULTIES IN INDIA
Author(s) -
Rahim Ahmed Munshi,
Darshana Dave
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
towards excellence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0974-035X
DOI - 10.37867/te130160
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , perspective (graphical) , online teaching , psychology , test (biology) , medical education , online learning , public relations , mathematics education , sociology , political science , computer science , medicine , multimedia , paleontology , disease , pathology , artificial intelligence , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology
COVID-19 Pandemic has presented a slew of challenges to almost every industry bringingopportunities for few and challenges for others. The key to survival in this volatile, uncertain,complex and ambiguous business environment is adapting and changing business processesto suit the new normal. Education industry has not been immune to this pandemic; it hasbrought a myriad of challenges and opportunities for the students and teachers community.Institutions around the world have adopted E-teaching methods to serve the students from anarm’s length; faculties have also taken lockdown period as an opportunity to sharpen theirknowledge domain by pursuing various MOOC/Online courses. This study is an effort tounderstand consumer behavior in the adoption of E-learning/teaching among students andfaculties. The objective of this paper was to create and test two regression models on theadoption of e-courses by students and adoption of online teaching/online learning amongfaculties. Additional objectives included assessing the difference in adoption of elearning/teaching between different groups of students/faculties on the basis of demographicfactors.