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@article{154368,
        author = {XAVIER VINAYARAJ N V and Sona Mariya Mathew},
        title = {Advantages and Dis-advantages of Online Education among Youth },
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {},
        volume = {8},
        number = {11},
        pages = {218-223},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=154368},
        abstract = {The Covid 19 has affected all areas of human life. It affected humanity physically, mentally, socially, economically and spiritually. It has also its effect in education and academic field. It changed all traditional normality and become a new beginning and this new beginning is now coined as “new normality”. The new normal now is a transformed concept of education with online learning at the core of this transformation (Priyanka Gautam, 2020).  Many changes occurred in online education. In order to keep social distance and safe guard student’s life the government and universities relied on online education and it helped in large extent to protect the students from corona virus. But when we think about physical, mental and social aspect of student’s life, we need more studies to identify the issues to carry forward an healthy online education or mixed education system. There are many studies conducted during Covid 19 period to understand the advantages and disadvantages of online education. This study also aims to understand the advantages and disadvantages of online education among youth. The purpose is to critically analyses and describe the respondents view point about merits and demerits of online education they experiencing. The descriptive research has conducted among youth those who are attending online class during Covid 19. The self-prepared questionnaire was used and for convenience Google form is used to collect data from the respondents. The study result identified that 41.5% of the respondents had agreed and 35.5% strongly agree that there comes communication gap between teachers and students due to online education. Among the respondents 41.7% agreed and 18.6% strongly disagree the statement that interactions become more comfortable with the help of online education. Even though there are many merits of online sessions, students also expressed their experience that network issue hinders the effectiveness of online classes and webinars, and it causes discontinuity in grasping of facts. },
        keywords = {Online class, new normality, communication issues, technical issues, health issues },
        month = {},
        }