Exploring the Impact of Online Open Course Wares on Student Learning at Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (India)

This paper brings into limelight the level of awareness and use of Open Courseware (OCW) by students at the CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana. A well-structured questionnaire was distributed among 200 students who visited the campus library to achieve the objectives of the study. A random sampling technique was adopted to collect the responses. The findings revealed that 87.10% of the students are aware of OCWs and that 84.95% of the students were using them. Some of the most frequently used OCWs were the YouTube Channel (84.95%), National Digital Library of India (83.87%), and Self Study Courses (75.27%). More than half of the students (55.91%) had become aware of OCWs through the various library websites. The majority of students, which is 65.59%, used OCW at the campus library. Language barriers and copyright infringement were found to be one of the most important obstacles for users who were using the OCW frequently.