Author: Veronica A. Thurmond
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Keywords: future, enroll, web, based, courses, willingness, satisfaction, interaction, variables, predictors, students, examination
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2003-04
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1581121814
ISBN-13: 9781581121810

Pub_AbstractText~: The impetus for this study was the need to gain a better understanding of what interaction activities in the virtual classroom affect student outcomes. The purpose was to determine which perceptions of interactions contributed to predicting student outcomes of satisfaction and future enrollment in Web-based courses, while controlling for student characteristics. The problem is that the interaction that occurs in the Web-based classroom is markedly different than what occurs in the traditional classroom setting. The study was a secondary analysis using data from 388 studen