Challenges faced by G.C.E. (O/L) students in the online education at present context: special reference to the schools in Kandy District

Abstract

This article aims to identify the challenges faced by G.C.E. (o/l) students in the online education at present context, to determine whether a difference between males and female students regarding challenges faced during online learning, and to evaluate the effectiveness of online learning in schools in Kandy district from students’ perspectives. In this study a sample of 100 students was taken. The technique of simple random sampling for used for this finding. Results revealed that all the students were facing same issues in schools. Specially the G.C.E. (o/l) students facing lot of problems in online study. Online learning cannot produce good results in developing countries like Sri Lanka, where a huge majority of students are not able to access the good internet facility due to technical as well as financial issues. This research addressed the effectiveness of online and challenges faced by students who are taking online classes. As per this finding, 40% of students had not proper internet facility and hey faced lots of internet issues and 30% students were not satisfies with online learning, some students complaining about eye sight issues and body pains by taking online classes on devices. As a result, most of the students are facing same issues and that was major problem for who are going to face G.C.E. (o/l) exam, we hope this study will help for those students surely.