Abstract—Higher education around the world has moved to
online teaching due to COVID-19 pandemic. Students in higher
education are compelled to attend online classes and adopt
e-learning mode. There is not much evidence on training the
students to adopt e-learning and remote learning. However, do
they have a positive attitude towards e-learning and has it
affected their academic performance? Present study
administered an e-learning attitude scale to 840 students of a
reputed University to examine whether they have positive or
avoidance attitude to e-learning and also analysed e-learning
attitude across students demographic characteristics. Study
revealed a slight positive correlation between e-learning
attitude and academic achievement of postgraduate students
and not for undergraduate students. Girls’ excelled in their
achievement and have a more positive e-learning attitude than
boys have. Boys showed avoidance e-learning attitude. However,
Socio Economic Status (SES) did not affect students’ e-learning
attitude but influenced their academic achievement. Study
concludes that stakeholders must create more opportunities to
develop a positive attitude towards e-learning as future
education is likely to be technology integrated.
Index Terms—Academic achievement, attitude, e-learning,
university.
G. S. Prakasha is with the School of Education, Christ University, Central
campus, Bangalore, India (e-mail: prakasha.gs@christuniversity.in).
R. Sangeetha and S. M. Almeida are with the Christ University, Central
campus, Bangalore, India (e-mail: sangeetha.r@christuniversity.in,
shaeril.michael.almeida@christuniversity.in).
A. Chellasamy is with the Christ University, BGR campus, Bangalore,
India (e-mail: aarthy.c@christuniversity.in).
Cite: G. S. Prakasha, R. Sangeetha, S. M. Almeida, and A. Chellasamy, "Examining University Students’ Attitude towards e-Learning and Their Academic Achievement during COVID-19," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 1056-1064, 2022.
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