Abstract: India higher education system is expanding to reach out to the demands of students. The characteristics of e-learning anyone, anytime and anywhere helps to cater the needs of today’s Indian higher education demand. To make an effort in the same direction an experimental study was conducted of designing an online course for undergraduate students of family and community sciences discipline. An experimental study was conducted using pre-post experimental design. Blended learning method was used to teach 95 first year students of faculty of family and community sciences, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara. The major finding of the study revealed that there was significant difference in gain in knowledge of the students studied through the designed online course. Not many studies are conducted in the area of e-learning and social sciences, this would be a contributory study to take up future researches in the same area.
Keywords: Higher Education, Online Course.
Title: Designing online course for Students of Family and Community Sciences/ Home Sciences – An Experiment in Social Sciences
Author: Ms. Dhara Bhatt, Dr. Avani Maniar
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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