Year: 2025 | Month: December | Volume: 12 | Issue: 12 | Pages: 752-764
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20251277
Traditional versus Online Education under Special Circumstances: University Students’ Preferences
Md. Abdul Hai
Department of Humanities, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), Chattogram, Bangladesh.
Corresponding Author: Md. Abdul Hai
ABSTRACT
Special circumstances such as COVID-19 pandemic may suggest distance or remote learning through online education instead of a traditional physical face-to-face learning environment. This research was carried out among 202 Bangladeshi undergraduate engineering students to comprehend their comparative preferences for traditional and e-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in 2021. The online survey stressed their experiences of and satisfaction in e-learning, perception about online and traditional education, and preferences. Overall, it was observed that although respondents expressed their mixed responses on different problems, they encountered in online education that led them to prefer traditional learning, a significant percentage considered both traditional and online learning preferably in a blended form could be suitable for Bangladeshi students.
Keywords: Online education, traditional education, distance learning, preferences
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