Introduction: Traditional classroom teaching has been the mainstay of learning in the medical field, especially in India. In the present situation of widespread lockdowns due to Covid 19 other means of learning have to be explored in place of traditional classroom teaching. These include live online lectures and recorded video lectures. There is a need to evaluate the effectiveness of these methods and whether they meet our requirements of imparting good quality medical education. Aims: To find the effectiveness of live online lectures and recorded video lectures as means of learning, to study their advantages and disadvantages and compare them. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted through a digital Google survey on 369 undergraduate students of MBBS, BDS and BPT students of SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana, India. Out of these 274 were female students and 95 were male students. A 5-point Likert scale was used (1- strongly disagree; 2- disagree; 3- undecided; 4- agree; 5- completely agree). Statistical Analysis: Categorical variables are presented in number and percentage (%). The qualitative variable is compared using the Chi-Square test. A p-value of __ampersandsignlt;0.05 is considered statistically significant. Analysis was done using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21.0. The advantages and disadvantages of both the methods of online learning i.e. live online lectures and recorded videos were studied to find the most effective method of imparting distance education. Results: The majority of students leaned towards recorded videos (53%) as a better method of E-learning as compared to live online lectures (36%). Conclusion: The main advantage of recorded videos is that the student can view them as many times as required and hence it leads to a better understanding of the topic. The majority of students agreed that traditional classroom teaching should be supplemented by recorded video lectures also.