THE STATISTICAL COMPARISON BETWEEN ONLINE AND OFFLINE EDUCATION

Abstract

Coronavirus outbreak media pandemic impacted most of the sectors globally. This includes the academic world that consists of millions of enrolled learners and active teachers who previously had regular classes in their institutions, and due to the pandemic, got stuck at home. To continue the education process, the online class was introduced in most of the countries, including India. In this mode, both teaching and learning happen through electronic devices which are relatively new to the entire teaching-learning community. The purpose of research is to study the features of the subjective attitude of students to distance learning. This study will provide a comprehensive explanation of the level of effectiveness of online learning with statistical analysis on categorical data analysis through the questionnaire, descriptive statistics, and Chi-Square test with a research sample of 114 students. The study aims to investigate the effectiveness of online and offline education in higher education. The study was carried out among students of B.Sc. and M.Sc. students from different institutions among which major responses were from the youth studying in Bachelor's program.