Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

Radeep Krishna Radhakrishnan Nair ¹, Nagaraj Ramrao ¹, Sivapragasam Chandrasekaran ², Anish Nair ³, Sivakumar Pothiraj ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kalasalingam Academy of Research And Education, Krishnankoil, IN
2 Department of Civil Engineering, Kalasalingam Academy of Research And Education, Krishnankoil, IN
3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kalasalingam Academy of Research And Education, Krishnankoil, IN

Abstract

The mobile learning paradigm has significantly started influencing the global education sector, the outcome of which has reflected in the increased usage of mobile for learning by the students for online classrooms. Further, there is a need to better understand as well as individual and contextual level factors which are related to students' mobile usage in learning activities. Hence, it is imperative to consider the usage of mobile with digital pedagogy. This study explores individual and contextual predictors of mobile usage among undergraduate students in the stream of engineering. Learning intent is defined as the personal importance that the students ascribe to use mobile for online classes. The participants included are 1004 engineering undergraduates.The regression models has been developed to examine the relationship between mobile usage with respect to new proposed model of Mobile Infographic Pedagogy (MIP).It is observed that the study analysis depicts that the Learner centric is a more significant parameter when mobile infographic pedagogy is utilized. The model reported in this paper can easily be applied by all the faculty members in any institution to help the students improve their attention in the process of teaching-learning.

Keywords

Mobile Phone Usage, Mobile Infographic Pedagogy, Regression, Neuro Fuzzy Modelling.

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Anish Nair ¹, Krishna Radhakrishnan Nair ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankoil - 626126, IN
2 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankoil - 626126, IN

Abstract

The current COVID situation has put the entire education system in a state of shock and has forced the educators to adopt online teaching at a rapid pace. Faculty and students are working hard to adapt to new and continuously evolving methods of and to make it as close to a classroom experience as possible. Hence an analysis of student satisfaction for a specific course is planned through analytical means in this article. Data is collected using the distance education learning environments survey as it closely resembles the current online teaching scenario. The survey captures the relationship between student satisfaction and parameters such as faculty support, student interaction, active learning, student autonomy, authentic learning and personal relevance. The survey is designed as a five point Likert type set of choices for each of the parameters. The participants of this study were 150 undergraduate students of Second year of Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education who were taking a common course in Mathematics. From the survey results, correlation analysis and descriptive statistics is conducted to understand the parameters which considerably affect the student satisfaction considerably. The analysis shows that faculty interaction and student interaction were the most significant factors affecting student satisfaction. These results can directly act as an input to the institutions which are finding the aspect of online classes challenging and will motivate them to address the key issues directly to improve their student satisfaction.

Keywords

Likert, Online Teaching, Correlation Analysis, Online Education Learning Environment Survey.

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