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Chinese Students’ Motivations to Adopt E-Learning

Author : James O. Stanworth

Published in: Innovative Technologies and Learning

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Culture influences how students give meanings to, and engage with, e-learning. Since the predominance of research draws on models construed with values from the Western world they risk lacking congruence with other contexts. This study aims to identify the motives of students in Chinese culture towards e-learning and explain how these predict behavior. I use a form of laddering to identify students’ motives and associating organizing schema. Results show 37 motives draw students towards while 31 push them away from e-learning. The analysis reveals that students are drawn towards the temporal spatial benefits of e-learning. They, however they feel debilitated and lack a sense of mo-qi with both their classmates and the teacher. These results point towards a different conceptualization of e-learning motivations than seen so far in the literature.

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Title: Chinese Students’ Motivations to Adopt E-Learning
Author: James O. Stanworth
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Innovative Technologies and Learning
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-63884-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-63885-6

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63885-6_57

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