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scores of faculty members and they their pedagogical practices and attitude
are technologically ready for eLearning. towards eLearning is very low.
However, their readiness in terms of
Figure 5 (a): Box plot displaying the ELr scores of Faculty members with
respect to their Level of Education; (b) Dimension wise readiness mean
scores of faculty members with respect to their Level of Education

Designation and ELr dimensions Assistant professors and Professors
are symmetrically distributed and the
The majority of faculty members
(70percent) are Assistant professors ELr scores of Associate professors are
(M = 229.11, SD = 24.57), and around skewed towards the higher scores of
19percent of them are Lecturers (M readiness. The maximum score of ELr of
= 224.69, SD = 27.85) and around Professors is lower than the maximum
10percent of them are Associate score of other faculty members. The
professors and Professors. Figure 6 result of one way ANOVA (F (3, 417) =
(a) and (b) respectively represents .929, p = .427) indicated that there was
the Designation wise score of ELr of no significant influence of designation
faculty members and the mean scores of faculty members on their ELr scores.
obtained by them on dimensions of ELr This finding is in contradiction to the
i.e., TR, PR, RR and A. From figure 6 (a), studies of O"Donnell, 1991; Lloyd, et
it is clear that the median score of ELr al., 2012 who stated that the position of
of Professors is highest followed by the faculty members significantly influenced
median scores of Assistant professors, their perceptions towards technological
Lectures and Associate professors. integration, cost/benefit barriers and
The IQR shows that the ELr scores of barriers to online teaching. Further,
Lecturers are more consistent around from figure 6 (b), it can be interpreted
the median followed by the ELr scores that TR of faculty members of various
of Assistant professors, Associate designations is highest when compared
professors and Professors. Thus, the to their PR, RR and A. They all scored
ELr scores of Professors are more least in PR followed by their least scores
scattered than other faculty member of A and RR. Thus, it can be concluded
groups. The ELr scores of Lecturers, that designation of faculty members

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