Impact of Transition from Offline Mode to Online Mode of Education on Undergraduate Students during Covid 19 An Empirical Study in West Bengal

The education system is unprecedentedly disrupted by full closure of education institutes due to worldwide pandemic called Covid 19. This has shifted the physical mode of education to online mode and drastically forced the government to take proactive steps to smoothly continue the education digitally. A sudden change has potential impact on education outcome on students and their level of understanding. In the present study the concept of digital education and the role of Government of India have been analyzed. Responses collected from 448 undergraduate students in West Bengal, on the constructs of Understandability, Credibility, Convenience and Techno stress. Descriptive statistics are used and parametric tests like one way ANOVA and Pearson correlation are applied for data analysis. Demographic factors like gender, type of institution, locality and monthly family income are considered. WhatsApp is mainly used as online education medium. Online education has positive impact on all the four constructs. Gender as a demographic factor significantly influences the variation in Understandability, Credibility and Convenience of online education. Locality influences the Techno stress and the Techno stress negatively associated with other three constructs. J. K. Das | Biswajit Dey "Impact of Transition from Offline Mode to Online Mode of Education on Undergraduate Students during Covid-19: An Empirical Study in West Bengal" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-6 , October 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd46424.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/social-science/46424/impact-of-transition-from-offline-mode-to-online-mode-of-education-on-undergraduate-students-during-covid19-an-empirical-study-in-west-bengal/j-k-das