Students’ Acceptance of Online Higher Education in COVID-19: Bangladesh Perspective

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic is a serious global challenge from the year 2020 that had adjourned the academic activities of different level from the very begging of the lockdown throughout the world. The scenario of Bangladesh is very similar and education institution remains close for a longer period of time for the safety of the generation. Online education is the only solution to continue academic activities particularly for the higher education institutions. This paper is mainly attempted to examine students’ acceptance of online higher education in the pandemic situation. To conduct the study, a total number of 320 respondents were taken as sample from nine universities including both public and private by using simple judgmental sampling technique. A face-to-face interview method was followed by using a structured questionnaire to collect the data. In this study, some statistical measures such as mean, standard deviation, correlation, regression were used to analyze the linkage. The study revealed that students’ acceptance of online education has a significant relationship with availability of technology, smooth network facility, teaching method, teachers’ cooperation, IT knowledge of student. The study also found that students’ acceptance has insignificant relationship with internet charge.

Keywords: Students’ acceptance, Online higher education, Bangladesh, Covid-19

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/14-18-01

Publication date:June 30^th 2023