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Table-4: Bottom four statements in each Dimension of ELr


                 TR                 PR                 RR                 A
         In developing      Students’ physical   Video editing     eLearning
         Podcast for my     presence is not     software is        reduces
         lessons            must in a teaching  available in       communication
                            learning process    institution        barriers between
                                                                   teacher and
                                                                   student
         In developing      Teacher should      e-content creation  eLearning is
         e-books            develop question    software are       difficult to handle
                            bank for the        available in       & frustrating to
                            courses that they   institution        use
                            teach
         In developing      Learner centered    * Institution does   * eLearning
         online quiz (using   teaching is better   not give any    increases
         hot potatoes/      than teacher        special credit for   workload of
         Socrative/Kahoot   centered teaching   using eLearning    teachers
         etc.)
         In creating        Teacher should      * The institution   I consider myself
         discussion boards  integrate various   does not have      as expert in
                            digital tools in    sufficient human   using eLearning
                            teaching            resources to       technologies
                                                support eLearning
                                     Source: Research data
                               * Negatively worded statements

        Conclusion and implications             Such training will not only change their
                                                attitude towards eLearning but also
        The  present  study  concludes  that
        demographic factors like age, gender,   would increase their expertise in using
        discipline,  teaching  experience and   eLearning  technologies.  The  faculty
        designation  of faculty  members does   members should  also be encouraged
        not  have  a  significant  influence  on   to use various digital tools and develop
        their  ELr score. However, teaching     e-question  banks  to increase their PR
        experience was found to be a significant   scores. Institutions  should take the
        factor in ELr. With regard to dimensions   responsibility  of providing necessary
        of eLearning,  a good  indication  is that   software  and  hardware  facilities  to
        faculty members are TR for eLearning.   faculty  members for implementing
        However, it is very essential to organize   eLearning practices which will increase
        training programmes  to increase TR     their  resource readiness  scores.   The
        (especially with reference to improve   findings  derived  in  the  present  study
        their skills to develop podcasts, e-books,   provide a direction to the policy makers
        e-quiz,  discussion  boards  and  blogs.   to take further steps in implementing/

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