| dc.description.abstract | Abstract: Sri Lanka gained independence in the
1948. With that after the economic turbulences
and downturns, Sri Lanka is managing to give
higher education to children on campus for a
longer time. As a result of that, student
interaction has been achieved, and the
education achievement has taken in far with
developed countries. In this rapid transition,
undergraduates must adapt themselves
accordingly to virtual platforms. Though the
technology is very poorly developed in the
country as per the literature reveal to come out
due to this Covid-19 pandemic new term has
arrived at Sri Lanka. Though it is a new
platform, through a lot of difficulties try to
manage it. By considering the above facts, the
objective of this study is to find out factors
affecting the undergraduate perception of
online learning, and how it can be used to
improve the efficiency and effectiveness of
online education. As a sample 373
undergraduates are going to be selected for the
quantitative study using a simple random
sampling method while for the qualitative study
10 industry experts and academic experts are
going to be selected by using the judgmental
sampling method. As the data collection method
for the quantitative component, the semistructured questionnaire is going to be used
while, for the qualitative component focus group
discussions and interviews are going to be used
which is in the consistent method in research
methodology. Finally, as the data analytical
path for the qualitative study thematic
approach is going to be used while for the
quantitative study linear regression model is
going to be used as parameter estimates. As a
statistical tool for a quantitative study, SPSS
version 22 to be used while, for the qualitative
study QDMINSER is going to be used. | en_US |
