Perception of Online Learning among Undergraduate Nursing Students in selected College, Puducherry, India

Background: Online learning meets the educational need of the present generation students worldwide. The teaching learning process over online makes students more comfortable and paves way to listen at international speakers. Objectives and Methodology: The Descriptive cross sectional research design was adopted to assess the level of Perception on Online Learning among Undergraduate Nursing Students. Proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to select 200 participants from selected Professional College, Puducherry. The data was collected for a period of one week with the help of Google form using five-point rating scale. Google form link was created and shared with the students in WhatsApp group. Results: Overall Perception of online learning shows that 63.0% participants perceived online learning as moderately favorable, 31.5% perceived as unfavorable and 5.5% perceived as favorable. Further domain wise results found that participants perceived subject matter in online learning, benefits of online learning and Feasibility of online learning as moderately favorable (62.5%, 57.5% and 50.0% respectively). About 59.0% and 50.0% perceived teacher and student interaction in online learning and online evaluation as unfavorable respectively. Conclusion: Undergraduate Nursing students perceived online learning as moderately favorable.