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Romero-Frías, Esteban; Arquero, Jose Luis; del Barrio-García, Salvador – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
In recent years, MOOCs have become firmly established as valid e-learning environments and, as such, have been developed by many universities using different types of platform. Given the voluntary nature of MOOC enrollment, motivation is crucial to our understanding of why students register for and complete these courses. The present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, MOOCs, Student Motivation, College Students
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Malinauskas, Romualdas K.; Pozeriene, Jurate – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
In this paper, the differences in academic motivation between university students of traditional (in-classroom) and online (distance) education were investigated. It has been hypothesized that online (distance) students possess stronger intrinsic motivation than traditional (in-classroom) students. The random sample consisted of 386 students.…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, College Students, Conventional Instruction, Distance Education
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Wighting, Mervyn J.; Liu, Jing; Rovai, Alfred P. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2008
Discriminant analysis was used to determine whether classifications could be made between students enrolled in e-learning and in face-to-face university courses (N = 353) based on their scores from separate instruments measuring sense of community and motivation. Study results provide evidence that the predictors were able to distinguish between…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Discriminant Analysis, Academic Achievement