A STUDY OF AWARENESS ON E-RESOURCES AMONG B.ED STUDENT TEACHERS

The essential of the study is the multiplying unfamiliarity of e-resources due to the let-down of electricity, which is a common problem in Palakkad area. Related other reasons are absence of time to utilize the I.T lab in time. The investigators and students from all disciplines are set to use e-Books in future. In order to build more teachers professional development and to improve the research practise they need in e-journals and e-books. The study aimed to examine the awareness on e-resources among B.Ed student teachers. The investigator adopted survey method to study the awareness on e-resources among B.Ed student teachers. For this study a sample of 200 B.Ed student teachers from three B.Ed training colleges which are situated in and around Palakkad district in Kerala selected by the investigator using simple random sampling technique. The findings reveal that there is no significant difference in the awareness of e-resources and e-resource technology among B.Ed Student Teachers.


Introduction
The educational sector, since the beginning of e-learning, is enduring incredible change on daily basis.E-learning itself is a cut down approach to education and knowledge and there is the need for teachers to take advantage of the abundant benefit and chances it offers.One way to do this is to become computer literate.Secondly, educators should pursue knowledge of the various elearning resources available to them.Most prominently, teachers and learners should make an effort to apply the e-learning resources in core curriculum implementation.Being computer literate, being able to distinguish e-learning resources and being able to put on them in teaching are the key factors in the operative utilization of electronic resources in the present computer age.Palakkad district is roughcast with problems of students' poor performance in public examinations and there is the need therefore for teachers to encirclement e-learning as a better substitute to the old-fashioned mode of teaching.

Objectives of the Study
There are two main types of objectives undertaken by the investigator in this study work.

Research Design
The investigator adopted survey method to study the awareness of e-resources among B.

Hypothesis 3:
There will be a significant difference between awareness of e-resources among B.Ed Student teachers with respect to gender.Since the calculated value (0.12) is less than the table value of 't' (1.98), the null hypothesis is accepted.It is inferred from the above table that there is no significant relationship between awareness of e-resources among B.Ed Student teachers with respect to gender.

Hypothesis 3:
There will be a significant difference between awareness of e-resources among B.Ed Student teachers with respect to gender.

Results And Conclusion
 Majority of the male and female have moderate level of awareness towards e-resources.But comparatively, the female students have high level of awareness towards e-resources than the male students. Majority of the urban area students have moderate level and in contrast rural area students have high level of awareness towards e-resources.But comparatively, the rural area students have high level of awareness towards e-resources than the urban area students. Majority of the UG and PG qualified students have moderate level of awareness towards e-resources.But comparatively, the PG qualified students have slightly better awareness towards e-resources than the UG qualified students. Majority of the nuclear family students have moderate level of awareness towards eresources whereas the joint family have equally distributed to high level and moderate level awareness towards e-resources.But comparatively, the joint family students have slightly better awareness towards e-resources than the nuclear family students. There is no significant relationship between awareness of e-resources among B.Ed Student teachers with respect to gender, location of the school, educational qualification, type of family, medium of instruction, nature of college, educational qualification of father, educational qualification of mother, occupation of father, occupation of mother , monthly income of father and monthly income of mother.

Table 2 :
Scoring of each item

Table 4 :
Ranks assigned for the scores

Table 5 :
Frequency and percentage difference in the level of mean score difference in the awareness of e-resources among B.Ed student teachers based on gender.
Hypothesis 2:There will be a significant mean score difference in the awareness of e-resources among B.Ed student teachers based on location of the college.[Nithya et.al., Vol.

Table 6 :
Frequency and percentage difference in the level of mean score difference in the awareness of e-resources among B.Ed student teachers based on location of the college.

Table 6
exhibits the result of the difference in the level of mean score difference in the awareness of e-resources among B.Ed student teachers based on location of the college.According to the table amid the urban area students, 21.52% of them have high Level and 78.48% of them have moderate Level of awareness towards e-resources.Similarly, amid the rural area students, 52.89% of them have high Level and 47.11% of them have moderate Level.

Table 7 :
't' values between awareness of e-resources among B.Ed Student teachers with respect to gender

Table 8 :
't' values between awareness of e-resources among B.Ed Student teachers with respect to genderSince the calculated value (0.12) is less than the table value of 't' (1.98), the null hypothesis is accepted.It is inferred from the above table that there is no significant relationship between awareness of e-resources among B.Ed Student teachers with respect to gender. [