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Satisfaction of online students is one of the important issues of online education, and identifying the predictors of satisfaction can improve the effectiveness and success of online education. This study thus aimed to investigate online students' and instructors' perceptions of the influential factors such as motivation, e-readiness, and barriers...
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... the students disagreed more with the following statements, respectively: 'I expect to have a career change after earning a degree from the online program' (31.6%), 'I am tech-savvy' (29.8%), 'It might be fun to take online courses' (26.5%), and 'I have a concrete career plan for what I will do after earning a degree from the online program' (26.1%). The descriptive statistics of the categories of online learning motivation are provided in Table 2. With regard to different categories of motivation scale, the highest mean was 4.25, which was related to the 'short-term extrinsic', whereas the category of the 'willingness to learn new technologies' received the lowest mean (M = 3.65). ...Context 2
... regard to different categories of motivation scale, the highest mean was 4.25, which was related to the 'short-term extrinsic', whereas the category of the 'willingness to learn new technologies' received the lowest mean (M = 3.65). Table 2 also indicates that responses to the 'short-term extrinsic' were the most homogeneous (SD = .56), while those to 'intrinsic' category were the most heterogeneous (SD = . ...