The Learners' Satisfaction of E-learning: A Review Article

Fatemeh Bahramnezhad¹, Parvaneh Asgari^2, , Shahrzad Ghiyasvandian³, Mahmoud Shiri⁴ and Fathieh Bahramnezhad⁵

¹Department of Critical Care Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

²Department of Critical Care Nursing, School, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran

³Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁴Department of Electronic Engineering, Islamic Azad University Iranshahr Branch, Iranshahr, Iran

⁵Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Islamic Azad University Kerman, Kerman, Iran

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Fatemeh Bahramnezhad, Parvaneh Asgari, Shahrzad Ghiyasvandian, Mahmoud Shiri and Fathieh Bahramnezhad. The Learners' Satisfaction of E-learning: A Review Article. American Journal of Educational Research. 2016; 4(4):347-352. doi: 10.12691/education-4-4-8

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the aim of "evaluation of the evidence on students' satisfaction of e-learning and the impact of key factors upon e-learning and their usefulness in teaching." The present systematic review was done on 16 studies from around the world. The inclusion criteria were: use of the specified terminology in the title, designing research, and searching the database of Medline, Elsevier, Proquest, Google, Google Scholar, SID, MagIran. In order to determine the quality of quantitative researches, the scale of Jaddad et al was used. The results indicated that factors influencing the learners' satisfaction of e-learning were divided into three categories: the factors related to the learner, to the instructor (curriculum designing, , and to the management and technical support. In order to increase the learners' tendency toward using this method, the effective factors should be studied and based on which this method be used.

Keywords:
satisfaction student e-learning web-based learning

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