Initial Perceptions of Open Higher Education Students with Learner Management Systems

Autor/in	Altunoglu, Asu
Titel	Initial Perceptions of Open Higher Education Students with Learner Management Systems
Quelle	In: Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 18 (2017) 3, Artikel 6 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1302-6488
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Student Attitudes; Student Surveys; Open Education; Database Management Systems; Courseware; Usability; Distance Education; Educational Change; Higher Education; Questionnaires; Semi Structured Interviews; Focus Groups; Individualized Instruction; Sense of Community; Barriers; Qualitative Research; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Schülerverhalten; Schülerbefragung; Offene Erziehung; Offener Unterricht; Datenbanksystem; Lernsoftware; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Bildungsreform; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Fragebogen; Individualisierender Unterricht; Qualitative Forschung; Türkei
Abstract	Learner management systems (LMS) are used in open education as a means of managing and recording e-learning facilities as well as improving student engagement. Students benefit from them to become active participants in the decision-making process of their own learning. This study aims to investigate the initial perceptions of students experiencing the LMS for the first time in the Open Education System of Anadolu University with the purpose of identifying the effective and ineffective aspects of it from their perspective and their demands and suggestions for how to improve their the engagement in the system. To do this, an interpretive qualitative case study research design was used in order to focus on individual contexts and perceptions formed within those contexts. According to the findings, students were found to have highly personalized and customized user habits and engagement levels with the LMS depending on their varying ages, occupational statuses, IT capacities, and educational backgrounds. In terms of their satisfaction with the LMS, the quality, quantity and variety of content in LMS was found to have a major influence on their initial perceptions of satisfaction. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Anadolu University. Office of the Rector, Eskisehir, 26470, Turkey. Tel: +90-222-335-34-53; Fax: +90-222-335-34-86; e-mail: rektor@anadolu.edu.tr; e-mail: TOJDE@anadolu.edu.tr; Web site: http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01