COMPARISON OF ONLINE TEACHING AND TRADITIONAL TEACHING AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL

Abstract

This study was conducted for comparison of online teaching and traditional teaching at university level. Main aim of the study was to investigate the students’ opinion regarding the comparative effectiveness of online teaching and traditional teaching at university level. Descriptive survey design was used to achieve the aims of the study. Three thousand four hundred and ninety nine (3499) students (1638 males and 1861 females) are studying at BS, Masters, MS\M.PHIL and PhD level in the faculties\departments of Education, English, Mathematics and Computer Sciences of university of Okara constituted the population of the study. As the population of the  study was large enough; therefore, the researcher used convenient sampling technique to select the sample and finally, 601 students (281 males and 320 females) were selected. A 33-item questionnaire for students was used to investigate the students’ opinion regarding online teaching and traditional teaching at university level. Six hundred and twenty nine (629) questionnaires for students were distributed among the participants and 601 of students’ questionnaire were finally returned. Researcher used both the descriptive statistics and inferential statistical techniques to analyze the collected data of 601 participants by using SPSS. Overall results revealed that the majority participants are of the point of view that traditional methods of teaching are comparatively more effective and convenient than online teaching methods at university level.