E-Learning Awareness in Higher Education Institutions in Jammu & Kashmir: Attitudes and Perceptions of Faculty Members

The purpose of this research paper is to understand through faculty perception that which academic area needs the most instructional support from the IT organization for e-learning, what the academic administration is doing for faculty to encourage them for the use of e-learning in their lectures and how academic administration encourages them to incorporate instructors to incorporate technology into instruction in different institutions of different districts of Jammu and Kashmir. The objective of the study was to access the related issues through faculty perception. Questionnaires were distributed to twenty faculty members and academic administrators of different institutions of different districts of Jammu and Kashmir in order to identify the important elements. The questionnaires include eight elements to understand the needs and were analyzed for analysis for variance of variance (ANOVA) in a randomized block design with three replicates using and SPSS to understand the significance of difference of difference between the elements. It is clear from the results that eLearning system has a positive impact on teacher at different institutes which include (i) it helped improve their job performance , (ii) assisted them to think through problems and (iii) allowed educational institutes to provide better and newer way of learning using the new educational technologies within educational process.