An Examination of the Impact of Aspects of Online Education Delivery on Students
Marinka Dunlop, Commerce & Management, Southern Cross University, Mdunlop@scu.edu.au
Don Scott, Commerce & Management, Southern Cross University, Dscott@scu.edu.au
Keywords
Online learning, Computer literacy, Survey, Interactive environment, Computer mediated communication
Abstract
This paper used scaled responses to closed questions to test a number of hypotheses relating to the perceptions of students of their experiences in studying through the medium of online delivered distance education.
The results showed that the students expended more effort in using the online learning system, largely through difficulties that they experienced in using the software and through computerisation problems. However, they still viewed online learning favourably after they had experienced it regardless of a perceived lack of immediacy in feedback, computer and environmental ignorance.
Free form comments were also collected from the students and these were used to better explain the causes of the results obtained from the hypothesis tests. This paper therefore reflects the some of the impacts of online education delivery on students’ learning.
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