Past research indicates the importance of assessing the role of higher education (HE) students' Learning Readiness's (LR's (Self-Directed Learning - SDL and Motivation for Learning - MFL) on learning behaviors (Knowledge Sharing Quality -KSQ) during e-learning in developing countries. This article is a critique of a literature review led to a conceptual framework which in turn was empirically investigated (correlation analysis, using Pearson and Spearman correlation) shed new knowledge. This deductive cross-sectional research confirms this role via an adopted survey, n = 253 Ahlia University undergraduate e-learners, hence confirming positively significance between SDL [right arrow] KSQ and, MFL [right arrow] KSQ: new knowledge contributions. [For the full proceedings, see ED621557.]