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Exploring the relationship between students’ inclination to sports and their entrepreneurial intentions
(2021) Pavan Kumar S.
It is logical to explore the university students’ inclination to sports and its impact on their entrepreneurial intentions, as both sports and entrepreneurship share many similar characteristics. In the last one-decade, scholars in the area of entrepreneurship were trying to find out the factors that can predict the entrepreneurial intentions among the students of higher education. This interest is largely because entrepreneurship has an important role to play in this competitive global business environment. It develops market economy. Thus, the topic of entrepreneurship has created motivation among the research scholars to find its antecedents. To achieve this aim, data were collected from 255 students who are studying an undergraduate course in Indian Universities. The proposed causal relationship in the model were examined with the help SmartPLS 3.0 software. The research showed interesting patterns; the students who want to be better than others in sport, and strive hard to become the best in sports have demonstrated their readiness for entrepreneurship intent. Further, the result shows that entrepreneurial attitude acts as a mediator between students’ inclination to sports and entrepreneurial intention. Findings emphasize the importance of motivating students to participate in sports activities, not just for upkeeping their mental and physical health, but they are the people who can start their own enterprise. They are the people who can contribute to the growth of the economy. Administrators and the people who are at the helm of responsibility of educational institutions should endorse the fact and make efforts to provide all the required facilities for the young students to participate in sports. © 2021, Rajarambapu Institute Of Technology. All rights reserved.
Impact of online learning readiness on students satisfaction in higher educational institutions
(2021) Pavan Kumar S.
Recent pandemic has fueled the growth of online learning like never before among the students of all levels. It has opened up tremendous opportunity to evaluate teaching practices through empirical investigation. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the learners’ readiness and their satisfaction towards online education. Online learning readiness is defined as skills needed by students to learn. It emphasises on self-learning management and understanding experiences of selflearning (Smith, 2005). Literature suggests that there are studies that explored the relationship between online learning readiness, academic motivation, perceived learning, cooperative working, achievement and continuation of education (Davis, 2006; Horzum, M. B., Kaymak, Z. D., & Gungoren, O. C.,2015). However, scholars paid less attention to the relationship between online learning readiness and student satisfaction among undergraduate engineering students. Research by Gunawardena and Duphorne (2000) has identified a direct connection between learning readiness and satisfaction of learning experiences. However, their study was on the adult who had undergone distance study through computer conferencing model. The present study considers a blended online learning model. Data were collected from 155 students who are studying an undergraduate course in Indian universities. The proposed causal relationship was examined with SmartPLS 3, as it is more suitable for the moderate sample size. The research showed a positive relationship between students’ online learning readiness and satisfaction. The findings demonstrated a significant relationship between the increasing levels of online learning readiness and student satisfaction. Administrators who are at the helm of responsibility of educational institutions should provide all the required facilities for the teachers to embrace online teaching. © 2021, Rajarambapu Institute Of Technology. All rights reserved.