Determining student satisfaction in distance education courses

Key Factors for Determining Student Satisfaction in Online Courses

The purpose of this study was to investigate key factors influencing student satisfaction of online students. The Biner instrument (1993) was modified to accommodate questions relating to online courses. A total of 105 respondents from a sample of 303 online learners completed the online survey. The results indicated student satisfaction in online courses is influenced by 3 constructs: (a) inst...

Distance Learning and Student Satisfaction in Java Programming Courses

Student satisfaction with distance learning is impacted by a variety of factors, including interaction with the instructor and the structure of the course. In an earlier article, we determined that student satisfaction as measured by course evaluation scores in an online discrete mathematics course taught by the first author was not statistically significantly different from that of students in...

Predicting Student Satisfaction in Distance Education and Learning Environments

The purpose of this study was to analyze characteristics of online learning environments. Data collected using the Distance Education Learning Environments Survey (DELES) were used to explore the relationship between student satisfaction and the following predictor variables: instructor support, student interaction and collaboration, personal relevance, authentic learning, active learning, and ...

Considering Students' Perceptions: The Distance Education Student Satisfaction Model

In the current study, the Distance Education Student Satisfaction Model, estimated as a structural equation model, is proposed to understand better what predicts student satisfaction from online learning environments. In the present study, the following variables are employed based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) (Davis, Bagozzi, & Warshaw, 1989) and literature: computer knowledge, fle...

The Importance of Instructor-Student and Student-Student Interactions of the satisfaction of Graduate Students Taking Distance Learning Courses