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A STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS, EDUCATOR CHARACTERISTICS AND LEARNING STRATEGIES ON LEARNING SATISFACTION IN E-LEARNING

Tan-I Chen

Candidate, Department of Adult and Continuing Education, 

National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

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Abstract

In education, the rise of e-learning has broken the barriers and restrictions of time, space and place in the transmission of old knowledge, and provided a more flexible learning style. Based on the arguments of Alavi & Leidner (2001) and Piccoli et al. (2001), this study examined the relationship between learner characteristics, educator characteristics, and learning strategies in an e-learning environment, and the effects of these three on learning satisfaction. A total of 112 valid questionnaires were collected from 200 questionnaires sent to users of an online teaching system at a university in southern Taiwan. The research results revealed that learner characteristics appeared significantly positive correlations with learning strategies (0.866, p <0.01), educator characteristics presented remarkably positive correlations with learning strategies (0.837, p <0.01), educator characteristics appeared significantly positive correlations with learning satisfaction (0.858, p <0.01), and learning strategies showed notably positive correlations with learning satisfaction (0.842, p <0.01). In previous studies, a positive correlation was found between learning strategies and learning satisfaction, so this study found that the better the use of learning strategies, the higher the satisfaction with e-learning.

Key Words: Learner Characteristics, Educator Characteristics, Learning Strategies, Learning Satisfaction, E-Learning

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