Impact of online education due to the pandemic among college students: Knowledge, Attitude and Practices analysis with structural equation modeling

Pandemic 2019 is observed in all sectors of the world which had caused a huge disruption in the education system in India as well as worldwide adding challenges to student’s life. We aimed to provide an outline on E‑Learning and the difficulties experienced by students of various colleges in the southern parts of India and to conduct knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) analysis based on student’s perception regarding E‑learning by collecting an online survey, 346 valid questionnaires were retrieved. In order to evaluate the association between the variables of KAP, structural equation modeling was used for data analysis. The influencing factors of KAP were observed to know the effect of the pandemic on E‑learning from the model. The result finding moderately fit the collected data and reveals a good fit of the model in the means of satisfying the threshold values.