Naslov
E-Learning in Croatian Higher Education: An Analysis of Students' Perceptions

Autori
Dukić, Darko ; Andrijanić, Goran

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies, Volume 4: Special Edition of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2009

Urednik/ci
Ao, Sio-Iong

Izdavač
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Grad
Melville (NY)

Godina
2010

Raspon stranica
228-242

ISBN
978-0-7354-0794-7

Ključne riječi
e-learning, Croatian higher education, students’ perceptions, factor and discriminant analysis

Sažetak
Over the last years, e-learning has taken an important role in Croatian higher education as a result of strategies defined and measures undertaken. Nonetheless, in comparison to the developed countries, the achievements in e-learning implementation are still unsatisfactory. Therefore, the efforts to advance e-learning within Croatian higher education need to be intensified. It is further necessary to undertake ongoing activities in order to solve possible problems in e-learning system functioning, which requires the development of adequate evaluation instruments and methods. One of the key steps in this process would be examining and analyzing users' attitudes. This paper presents a study of Croatian students' perceptions with regard to certain aspects of e-learning usage. Given the character of this research, adequate statistical methods were required for the data processing. The results of the analysis indicate that, for the most part, Croatian students have positive perceptions of e-learning, particularly as support to time-honored forms of teaching. However, they are not prepared to completely give up the traditional classroom. Using factor analysis, we identified four underlying factors of a collection of variables related to students’ perceptions of e-learning. Furthermore, a certain number of statistically significant differences in student attitudes have been confirmed, in terms of gender and year of study. In our study we used discriminant analysis to determine discriminant functions that distinguished defined groups of students. With this research we managed to a certain degree to alleviate the current data insufficiency in the area of e-learning evaluation among Croatian students. Since this type of learning is gaining in importance within higher education, such analyses have to be conducted continuously.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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