DESIGNING AN EFFECTIVE E-LEARNING SYSTEM DURING COVID-19: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Author(s)

Komal Goyal, Ashutosh Nigam, Neha Goyal, Manisha Goyal

Affiliations

Department of Management Studies, J. C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad, India

Abstract

The study aims to look into the factors of successful educational layout in colleges and institutions, adopted an e-learning system. Through an online survey link, researchers have collected the data from college and university students of Haryana. The findings of the study suggest that students have optimistic views toward e-learning. Students' perceptions of instructional design values include student involvement, feedback, user interface, interaction and course content. Feedback is found to be the most important aspect of an e-learning system while interaction was the least one. Moreover, the study found that students are facing strain to their eyes while using e-learning systems in their lifestyle.

Keywords

E-learning, COVID-19, interaction, user interface, feedback, student’s involvement.

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