The Effect of Students' Distance Education Self-Efficacy Beliefs on Their Readiness for Online Learning and Their Academic Life Satisfaction
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: IntroductIonTechnological advances and developments have had an impact on educational processes as in many other fields, and thus, with the use of various online learning tools by instructors and students, the place and time of education have become more flexible than ever before.In addition to the innovations in online learning tools, in many parts of the world after the COVID-19 pandemic, education at all levels was carried out exclusively through online methods for a certain period due to the emergence of distance education as a necessity rather than a choice (Williamson et al., 2020).Thus, the effectiveness and efficiency of distance education in achieving learning outcomes have become much more important (Helm et al., 2021;Lynch, 2020).The concepts of distance education and online learning are frequently used in the literature (Kentnor, 2015; Moore et al., 2011) to explain the communication and interaction processes experienced in the process of transferring learning outcomes from instructors to students in different physical environments through technological tools (Aydemir, 2018).Distance education can be defined as learning that takes place through interactions between the instructor and the learner despite being in different environments (Harry et al., 2013), while online learning is learning that takes place using digital tools (Farmer, 2019).However, many sources use these two concepts interchangeably (Moore & Kearsley, 2011; Unger & Meiran, 2020; Yüksel, 2021).Akıncı and Pişkin-Tunç (2021) emphasize that to increase the quality of distance education, especially the teaching and evaluation process and the selection of materials, should be made in accordance with the objectives.It is also known that various individual characteristics of students such as information and technology literacy, educational satisfaction, attitude towards online learning, distance learning self-efficacy, and readiness for online learning affect the online learning process (Altunçekiç, 2022;Ezziane, 2007;Harsasi & Sutawijaya, 2018;
Language: English
Topic: Online and Blended Learning
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409515150