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Teaching experience and ELr also clear that there are no significant
dimensions outliers in any of the samples. Also,
the result of one way ANOVA (F (3,
As high as 70 percent of the faculty
members who participated in the survey 417) = 2.876, p = .036) indicated that
had teaching experience between 1 there was significant influence of
to 10 years. The maximum years of teaching experience on ELr scores.
teaching experience was 37 years and Alshangeeti, Alsaghier, & Nguyen,
the minimum was one year. Figures 2012 also reported that acceptance of
3 (a) and (b) respectively, represent online learning is highly dependent on
teaching experience wise score of ELr of the length of teaching experience and
faculty members and the mean scores Navani & Ansari, 2016 also claimed that
obtained by them in relation to their there is positive correlation of teaching
teaching experience on dimensions experience with ELr. Lloyd, et al., 2012
of ELr. As only three faculty members also concluded that there is a strong
belong to the group of 31 to 40 years effect of experience on resistance to
of teaching experience, the discussion online education. Further, figure 3 (b)
about this group is not done here. shows that faculty members in all groups
of teaching experience scored high in
Further, from figure 3 (a), it can be
interpreted that the faculty members TR. Faculty members having teaching
who had an experience between 11 and experience between 11 to 20 years
20 years had the least minimum score had a least mean score of TR followed
of ELr followed by the faculty members’ by faculty members who have 1 to 10
minimum score of ELr in the experience years of teaching experience. It can also
group of 1 to 10 years. From the figure, it be interpreted from figure 3 (b) that the
is also clear that the median score of ELr faculty members scored higher on TR
of faculty members whose experience when compared to other dimensions.
is between 1 to 10 years and 21 to 30 Also, their score on RR is higher than
years is more than the median score of scores of PR and A. Thus, it can be
ELr of faculty members whose teaching concluded that teaching experience
experience is between 11 to 20 years. has an influence on ELr scores of
faculty members and irrespective of
The IQR indicates that the spread of ELr
scores is more among faculty members their teaching experience, the faculty
who have experience of 11 to 20 years members' readiness in terms of their
than compared to faculty members pedagogical practices and attitude
in other experience groups. The plot towards eLearning is low.
also indicates that their ELr scores are
symmetrically distributed. Further, it is
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