Implementing Innovative Online Teaching-learning Practice in Higher Education: Understanding Student Perspective

Online learning has become one of the fastest moving trend and is an effective alternative to the traditional classroom learning. It aims to provide a configurable infrastructure which collaborates learning content, technology and delivery into a single solution to move society ahead by imparting education quickly, effectively, and economically. This study seeks to delve into this aspect and attempts to understand the students perspective of an effective online delivery of academic content to undergraduate and postgraduate students. This study is exploratory in nature. The objectives of the study are to understand the students experience both good and bad in online learning, the knowledge, skills abilities they expect from online instructors and the components and activities they expect in an online learning environment. The results of the study can be used for providing relevant training to the prospective and aspiring online teachers and thus contributing to excellence in online teaching in higher education.