A Study on the Influencing Factors of Online Learners’ Learning Motivation

Degang LAI

Abstract


This article analyzes the students who are receiving online education in College of Network and Continuing Education in Southwest University, and makes use of exploratory factors to analyze the factors affecting these online education students. The results show that these students’ learning motivations are mainly affected by individual factors and external environment, including eleven factors such as hobby, achievement motivation, self-efficacy, self-control and concentration, work, time, teacher, peer, learning platform, learning activity, and learning resource, etc.


Keywords


Learning motivation; Influencing factor; Exploratory factor analysis

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/n

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