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- Title
STUDENT PERCEPTION REGARDING THE DEPLOYMENT OF ONLINE COURSES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS.
- Authors
ORZAN, Mihai; DOBRESCU, Andra; RADU, Anamaria-Cătălina; STOICA, Ivona
- Abstract
Technology has spectalary progressed over the last years and has brought various benefits to educational environment throughout the implementation of elearning concept which was quickly adopted by many institutions of higher education. Learning using online environment has been considered a great challenge that brought on the one hand a number of benefits on the other hand a number of disadvantages. So it is that many teachers in various fields have tried to implement this concept and observe student reaction to this way of assimilating information. This paper aims to determine student perception regarding deployment of online courses in higher education institutions. This takes into account a series of factors that have the ability to influence how students perceive this method of teaching and transmitting the information. The main factors taken into account in the analysis we conducted, are: the benefits that can be obtained by attending a course conducted in the online environment, disadvantages perceived in the online user experience and safety information using this communication channel. This paper is based on a quantitative research that was conducted among students to rich out to their perception about the deplyment of courses in the online environment. The quantitative study was conducted on a sample of 142 respondents . The research took place in december 2013, in Bucharest. Information was collected using a questionnaire consisting of 18 questions which was established based on the research objectives. The method used was the online survey method and the instrument was an online questionnaire designed on wesurvey platform. For testing the operational model of student perception regarding the deployment of online courses, data were processed using IBM SPSS Statistics 20.
- Subjects
STUDENTS; SENSORY perception; ONLINE education; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE learning
- Publication
eLearning & Software for Education, 2014, Issue 2, p504
- ISSN
2066-026X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12753/2066-026X-14-133