Author: Dr. R. Rajesh & Dr. N. Rekha & Dr. K. Jayaraman
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.70798/Bijmrd/03040002
Abstract: Digital penetration in general has seen major improvement in recent years. This has come to rescue the education sector in times of global pandemic and consequent lock downs. This paper has examined the awareness of digital education among college of teacher education students in rural areas of Tiruchirappalli in terms of knowledge about digital education and skill of using digital applications, digital medium and digital devices. The present study also explored the differences in awareness of digital education among college of teacher education students in rural areas by gender, college of education class, and level of educational qualification. The researcher prepared a close ended structured questionnaire measuring the responses of knowledge and skill about digital education. It was found that majority of the college of teacher education students were adequately aware about leaning management system, spam, MOOC and virtual labs. The college of teacher education students were found to have good skill in using word process application, presentation application and video sharing sites. Only around 20% of the college of teacher education students were part of any forum or interests group and used virtual labs in learning. It was also found that college of teacher education students have adequate knowledge about digital education and skill of using digital medium and digital devices as the mean score was more than fifty percent. It was observed that the awareness about government initiatives in digital education was not adequate among college of teacher education students.
Keywords: Digital Education, College of Teacher Education Students, Government Initiatives.
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