Author(s):
Abhishek Chauhan, Gaurav Saini, Preeti Thakur
Email(s):
gaurav_saini@pu.ac.in
DOI:
10.52711/2321-581X.2025.00006 
Address:
Abhishek Chauhan1, Gaurav Saini1*, Preeti Thakur2
1UIET, Panjab University Swami Sarvanand Giri Regional Centre, Hoshiarpur, India.
2Ph. D. Department of Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
*Corresponding Author
Published In:
Volume - 16,
Issue - 2,
Year - 2025
ABSTRACT:
With the outbreak of Corona pandemic throughout the world in the year 2020, the importance of online and virtual learning and teaching has increased manifold in connecting students to the teachers at all levels of education i.e. school and colleges. In the era of science and Technology and with the increasing usability of Internet online and virtual learning has become possible in a country like India with a huge population. But can traditionally teaching methods be wholly replaced by online and virtual means of teaching learning is a matter of concern in professional courses like engineering education. Over the past few years lots of research is going on to find the effectiveness of online and virtual learning in various courses. This paper is an attempt to give an overview of process of online and virtual learning in engineering education, its resources, their advantages and disadvantages in engineering education.
Cite this article:
Abhishek Chauhan, Gaurav Saini, Preeti Thakur. Effectiveness of Online and Virtual Learning in Engineering Education. Research Journal of Engineering and Technology. 2025; 16(2):69-2. doi: 10.52711/2321-581X.2025.00006
Cite(Electronic):
Abhishek Chauhan, Gaurav Saini, Preeti Thakur. Effectiveness of Online and Virtual Learning in Engineering Education. Research Journal of Engineering and Technology. 2025; 16(2):69-2. doi: 10.52711/2321-581X.2025.00006 Available on: https://ijersonline.org/AbstractView.aspx?PID=2025-16-2-2
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