Assessment of Qualities of Pandemic-Driven E-Content Developed for Higher Education in India

Autor/inn/en	Bhattacharya, Surjoday; Tripathi, Krishnakant; Kumar, Akhilesh
Titel	Assessment of Qualities of Pandemic-Driven E-Content Developed for Higher Education in India
Quelle	In: Cogent Education, 10 (2023) 1, Artikel 2167315 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bhattacharya, Surjoday) ORCID (Tripathi, Krishnakant) ORCID (Kumar, Akhilesh)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1080/2331186X.2023.2167315
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; COVID-19; Pandemics; Educational Technology; Higher Education; Undergraduate Study; Online Courses; Course Content; College Faculty; Teacher Competencies; Standards; Program Development; Program Content; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Unterrichtsmedien; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Grundstudium; Online course; Online-Kurs; Kursprogramm; Fakultät; Lehrkunst; Standard; Programmplanung; Programmgestaltung; Indien
Abstract	The quality of e-content had been identified as one of the major constructs impacting the quality of e-learning and students' satisfaction. During the time of COVID-19 pandemic, a surge in the development of e-contents had been noted. Moreover, the new scenario also pushed the debate on the quality of e-learning that directly or indirectly included the issue of the quality of e-content. The present study aimed to assess the quality of e-contents prepared during the pandemic period for higher education students in India against the standards laid down by different studies and models of e-content development. A manifest analysis approach as a part of the quantitative content analysis method was employed. The sample size consisted of 60 e-contents from the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of education discipline. Half (50%) of the e-contents selected from e-content repository and remaining 50% were collected from faculty of HEIs directly. A three-stage selection criterion was formulated to select the e-contents from both sources. In agreement with the three categories of quality assessment (standard, substandard and not-suitable), only 23.3% of e-contents were found of standard quality. Two factors could be attributed mainly to this poor quality of e-contents, one was the lack of training to developers of e-content and the second was the lack of quality control mechanisms for developing e-contents at the institutes of higher education in India. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01