Attitude Of Teacher Educators Towards E-Learning And Traditional Learning: A Comparative Study
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The present study is an investigation among the teacher educators in respect of their attitude towards e learning and traditional learning. For this purpose Descriptive Survey Method was used by the investigator. The purposive random sampling technique was used. In order to collect the data for the study Paschim Medinipur district was selected randomly. Then, 10 colleges of education were selected randomly from that district. Thereafter, 100 teacher educators were selected randomly from these colleges. Two self-made questionnaire were used by the researcher to study the attitude of teacher educators towards e-learning and towards traditional learning. Mean, Standard Deviation, t- test and Percentage were used for data analysis. The findings of the study indicate that teacher educators have unfavourable attitude towards traditional learning. It also indicates that the male and female teacher educators do not differ in respect of their attitude towards e learning.
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