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      Students’ perception and preference for online education in India during COVID -19 pandemic

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          Educational institutes across the world have closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic jeopardizing the academic calendars. Most educational institutes have shifted to online learning platforms to keep the academic activities going. However, the questions about the preparedness, designing and effectiveness of e-learning is still not clearly understood, particularly for a developing country like India, where the technical constraints like suitability of devices and bandwidth availability poses a serious challenge. In this study, we focus on understanding Agricultural Student’s perception and preference towards the online learning through an online survey of 307 students. We also explored the student’s preferences for various attributes of online classes, which will be helpful to design effective online learning environment. The results indicated that majority of the respondents (70%) are ready to opt for online classes to manage the curriculum during this pandemic. Majority of the students preferred to use smart phone for online learning. Using content analysis, we found that students prefer recorded classes with quiz at the end of each class to improve the effectiveness of learning. The students opined that flexibility and convenience of online classes makes it attractive option, whereas broadband connectivity issues in rural areas makes it a challenge for students to make use of online learning initiatives. However, in agricultural education system where many courses are practical oriented, shifting completely to online mode may not be possible and need to device a hybrid mode, the insights from this article can be helpful in designing the curriculum for the new normal.

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                Journal
                Social Sciences & Humanities Open
                The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
                2590-2911
                2590-2911
                4 January 2021
                2021
                4 January 2021
                : 3
                : 1
                : 100101
                Affiliations
                [a ]Division of Agricultural Economics, ICAR- Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 11001, India
                [b ]Division of Agricultural Extension, ICAR- Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 11001, India
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                S2590-2911(20)30090-5 100101
                10.1016/j.ssaho.2020.100101
                7836920
                34173507
                6ff1524d-1551-46b7-9638-701a1ef39cfd
                © 2020 The Authors

                Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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                : 28 April 2020
                : 27 August 2020
                : 17 December 2020
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