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Webinar as the Future Educational Tool in Higher Education of India: A Survey-Based Study

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In contemporary times online learning process has become indispensable for higher education in India. The common practice of chalk and talk method is no longer the only recommended method of pedagogy. As a result, blackboards are gradually being replaced by digital smart boards and LCD screens which allow both traditional and technological modes of teaching. Government of India also realises the immense potential that such technologies have. In this direction, ‘Digital India’ is a one step forward initiative of the Government of India to endorse e-resources and reinforce digital infrastructure all over the country. The digitization offers some of the best opportunities to provide the students with better resource and reduces disparity between institutions in terms of resource sharing. Webinar is one of the tools that help us move towards such inclusivity in education by improving accessibility as well as outreach. So, there is a high prospect of webinar in India. In this paper students’ opinion on some aspects of inclusion of webinar in higher education is studied and these opinions are statistically analysed. Perception of the students under study is assembled through questionnaire. Results illustrate that though students are well versed with the use of technology, there is a lack of awareness regarding webinars. Logistic regression exhibits how the factors like age, gender, location, stream of education, access of laptop, access of mobile, access of YouTube, experience of webinar, educational infrastructure affect in the opinion of the students to incorporate webinar in higher education in recent future. We have also identified the order of the students’ preference factors through a ranking process of their interest to include webinar for higher studies. The intermediate test shows that this preference probability is not uniform among the respondents. The Mann Whitney U statistic is used to differentiate the average perception of the students towards the preference of factors in the favour of webinar in higher education between the webinar experienced and the non-experienced groups.
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Technology, Knowledge and Learning (2021) 26:1111–1130
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-021-09493-7
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Webinar astheFuture Educational Tool inHigher Education
ofIndia: ASurvey‑Based Study
SanjibKumarGupta1 · NabanitaSengupta1
Accepted: 7 January 2021 / Published online: 17 January 2021
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. part of Springer Nature 2021
Abstract
In contemporary times online learning process has become indispensable for higher edu-
cation in India. The common practice of chalk and talk method is no longer the only rec-
ommended method of pedagogy. As a result, blackboards are gradually being replaced
by digital smart boards and LCD screens which allow both traditional and technological
modes of teaching. Government of India also realises the immense potential that such
technologies have. In this direction, ‘Digital India’ is a one step forward initiative of the
Government of India to endorse e-resources and reinforce digital infrastructure all over
the country. The digitization offers some of the best opportunities to provide the students
with better resource and reduces disparity between institutions in terms of resource shar-
ing. Webinar is one of the tools that help us move towards such inclusivity in education by
improving accessibility as well as outreach. So, there is a high prospect of webinar in India.
In this paper students’ opinion on some aspects of inclusion of webinar in higher education
is studied and these opinions are statistically analysed. Perception of the students under
study is assembled through questionnaire. Results illustrate that though students are well
versed with the use of technology, there is a lack of awareness regarding webinars. Logistic
regression exhibits how the factors like age, gender, location, stream of education, access
of laptop, access of mobile, access of YouTube, experience of webinar, educational infra-
structure affect in the opinion of the students to incorporate webinar in higher education in
recent future. We have also identified the order of the students’ preference factors through a
ranking process of their interest to include webinar for higher studies. The intermediate test
shows that this preference probability is not uniform among the respondents. The Mann
Whitney U statistic is used to differentiate the average perception of the students towards
the preference of factors in the favour of webinar in higher education between the webinar
experienced and the non-experienced groups.
Keywords Webinar· Stratified sampling· Logistic regression· Rank preference· Higher
education· Intermediate test
* Sanjib Kumar Gupta
gsanjib.stat@gmail.com
Nabanita Sengupta
nabanita.sengupta@gmail.com
1 Sarsuna College, University ofCalcutta, Kolkata700061, India
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