Quality of Training Material for Student Learning in Online Education System

Online education is considered not equivalent to conventional education as student learning may not be on same quality. Literature guided that student's learning depends on various factors including quality of the training material provided in online education system. In Pakistan, certain universities are offering online education degree programs. The selected quality of training material as independent variable to learn its impact on student's learning in online education system. Therefore this correlation study in a cross-sectional manner selected a sample of 300 students of the final semesters from the two different universities in Pakistan offering online distant education for post graduate degree programs like MBA and MCS or MS (IT). The study utilized a pretested questionnaire derived from the literature using 5 points interval scale to collect data for the selected variables. Using SPSS version 15.0, the study applied Pearson correlation test to verfiy the correlation between the selected variables. For testing the hyportheses the study applied linear regression. As result the study found its variables significantly correlated and further the regression of the quality of training material on student's learning was remained significant. The study recommended ways to improve the quality of the training material in online education system programs.