Internet Use-behaviour vis-à-vis e-learning by Post Graduate Students

The paper assesses the use-behaviour of postgraduate students with respect to e-learning tools/platforms at three institutes of Banaras Hindu University. Their responses on parameters like purpose of using internet and use pattern in relation to various e-learning tools/platforms were gauged. Use-pattern of some e-learning tools/platforms was judged in terms of extent like frequently, sometimes and never. A total of 120 respondents were taken as a sample from three institutes of Banaras Hindu University. Ex-post facto research design was used as per the nature of study. The findings showed that 97.5 per cent of the respondents used internet for academic purpose followed by e-mail (96.66%). With regard to their use in terms of different e-learning tools, findings revealed that e-mail was the most frequently used e-learning tool by 73.3 per cent of the students, which was followed by Facebook (60%) and Youtube (56.6%). Platforms like Blogging, Coursera and Quora were few of the tools to be have high per cent of students that have never used, wherein Blogging had not been used by 73.33 per cent of the respondents followed by Coursera which had not seen any use by 70.84 per cent of respondents and Quora which was also never used by 70 per cent of respondents.