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the country with online classes (Zoom, 2. To study the overall eLearning
WhatsApp, Skype etc.) becoming readiness of the faculty members
the norm for students, parents and of higher education institutions of
teachers (Praveen, 2020). All this makes Gandhinagar district.
it mandatory to reconsider the current 3. To study the dimensions of eLearning
delivery and pedagogical methods readiness.
in schools and higher education
institutions which is a major challenge Method
on the part of teachers (Richa, 2020).
Majority of the traditional higher Data for the present study were
education institutions are scrambling obtained from the faculty members of
towards eLearning to ensure normality higher education institutions located
in education and also to resume the in Gandhinagar district, Gujarat using
academics without much gap once a cross sectional survey design. 154
the COVID-19 crisis is over (Abhishek, higher education institutions/colleges
2020). The success of this emergency listed in All India Survey of Higher
e-learning depends to a great extent on Education 2018-19 (MHRD, 2019) was
the readiness of teachers and students considered as a population frame
to accept and adopt it. Parameters like for the present study and out of it, 60
quality of faculty members, quality of colleges/institutions were selected
IT infrastructure, acceptance of use of using simple random technique and
digital teaching technologies in teaching from those 60 institutions, the tool was
learning, trust/confidence on eLearning distributed randomly to around 800
practices would determine the success faculty members. 421 faculty members
of this emergency eLearning. Hence, who responded constituted the sample
it is rational to know the eLearning of the study and thus the response rate
readiness of faculty members and was 53 percent with 45 percent female
students. (n= 188) and 55 percent male (n=233).
Around 75 percent of the faculty
Objectives members were between the ages of 21
and 40. As high as 70 percent of faculty
The purpose of the present study is to members had teaching experience
explore the eLearning readiness (ELr) of between 1 to 10 years and 25 percent of
higher education faculty members with them had teaching experience between
respect to various demographic factors 11 to 20 years. Most of the respondents
and E-learning dimensions and hence (55 percent) were from Science &
the following are the objectives of the Technology discipline followed by
study:
faculty members from Social Sciences
1. To study the dimension wise eLearning discipline (37 percent) and Arts &
readiness of the faculty members Humanities (8percent).
of higher education institutions of An inventory was constructed to
Gandhinagar district with respect to collect the data for the current study.
their age, gender, teaching experience, A thorough review of literature (Azimi,
discipline, education level, designation.

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