Discomfort in e-Learning: Does it Impact Learners?

This study is designed to measure readiness among adult distance learner to embrace new technologies in their studies. This study involved 190 adult distance learner from School of Distance Education, UniversitiSains Malaysia as a respondent and the data were collected by questionnaire that adopted from Parasuraman and Colby (2001) [1]. The study was carried out to see whether adult learners are comfortable to study by using new technology. The result shows that all respondent are comfortable and confidence enough to embrace new technology in their learning. This study also shows that e-learning is one of learning tool that can support adult learning.