| dc.description.abstract | Distance education has a long history in over the World. Thank to the modern technology, especially the Internet, there are many great and useful applications for it. Distance education is also provided by few universities in Ho Chi Minh City although there are a lot of difficulties and challenges while implementing the program. Distance education, with many advantages, begins to be a good channel for everyone to follow. In order to have a high quality distance education program in Vietnam, there are a lot of concerns. One of the concerns is about the learners. Therefore, this research is going find out the motivations and barriers of Vietnamese students towards the distance education. Base on the result of this research, distance education designers, instructors, and even students will have their own points of view of the current motivation and barriers of Vietnamese students, then they could have appropriate modifications in order to make distance education program better.
Quantitative and qualitative method was used to do this research. While the qualitative method was used to explore the potential motivational and barriers factors, the quantitative method used the survey method to collect mass information. A survey instrument was distributed to 250 students who were following the distance education program in Ho Chi Minh City.
There were six motivation factors and six barrier factors found. The correlation between motivation factors and barrier factors was also found although some was not strong. Moreover, research also found that motivations and barriers also had the significant influence to the behavioral intention of the learners.
Keywords: distance education, online learning, Vietnamese students, motivation, barrier, behavioral intention. | en_US |
