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is going to bring a new hybrid model of lack of interaction due to connectivity
education. issues were found to be the significant
drawbacks of virtual classes.
Literature review
Phutela, N. and Dwivedi, S.
Online education, as mentioned, has a (2020) employed interpretative
history of more than a decade owing to phenomenological analysis (IPA)
which a lot of empirical research both to scrutinize the respondents from
at global and Indian context has been Delhi-NCR of India through semi-
done in the past in this area. This section structured interviews to understand the
of the paper highlights crucial findings student’s perspectives on the impact
from those researches. of Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) in education industry.
Vijaya Lakshmi Y., Das Jaishree, Majid
Ishfaq (2020) attempted to assess the Drivers for e-learning adoption and
eLearning readiness of the stakeholders inhibitors who restrict the adoption of
through a questionnaire from a sample e-learning were identified.
of 12 lab administrators, 83 teaching Aggarwal Ritika (2017) in her research
staffs and 153 students belonging to discussed the role of e-learning in the
35 colleges of Gujarat. Results showed higher educational environment in the
that e-learning helps to a lesser extent digital age and compared the economic
in maintaining transparency, face-to- costs associated with traditional face-
face contact and interactivity which to-face and e-learning methods.
hinder students and faculty members’ Perceived Usefulness (PU) and
readiness towards e-learning. Authors Enjoyment were significant factors
identified the need to plan for training which contributed towards learners’
programmes to increase their e-learning acceptance behaviour with Web-based
readiness.
Learning System (WLS) while included
Arora Amit Kumar, Srinivasan R. motivational perspective into the
(2020) assessed the adoption rate for Technology Acceptance Model (Zhang
virtual classes from 341 teachers of Sheng, Zhao Jue, Tan Weiwei, 2008). In
higher education institutions (HEIs) a survey of 400 post graduate students
of Ghaziabad region with two sets of and their attitude towards e-learning
respondents: who adopted and not was explained by perceived usefulness
adopted virtual classrooms, respectively. and intention to use. It was found that
Network issues, lack of training, and 76percent students were significantly
lack of awareness were stated to be the positive towards e-learning, 82percent
major challenges faced by them. Lack students found e-learning useful
of awareness was stated to be the most and 57percent intended to adopt
important reason by those who did not e-learning (Mehra V. and Omidian
adopt virtual classrooms followed by F., 2011). E-learning experiences and
lack of interest and doubts regarding perceptions of engineering students
the usefulness of virtual classes. Less were investigated at two public Libyan
attendance, lack of personal touch, and universities and the study demonstrated

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