Exploring the Relationship Between Digital Literacy and Students’ Preferences For E-Learning Platforms

ABSTRACT

Education has a vital role in forming an individual's personality. The COVID-19 pandemic drove the Indian education sector to transition from physical to online learning. The purpose of this study is to identify students' digital literacy about online educational platforms in secondary education institutions, as well as their preferences for E-learning. It is based on primary data that has been collected from the Balasore district of Odisha by using a well-structured schedule, with a sample size of 128 respondents. For objective one, five characteristics are utilized to determine the level of digital literacy among students: availability, accessibility, affordability, usage and awareness and objective two was addressed using a logistic regression model to find out the preferences for E-learning in secondary education institutions. However, the majority of the students were using smartphones to attend online classes through various online educational platforms, indicating that they are digitally literate and have a strong preference towards e-learning.