Paper Info
Title
Personality, learning, and satisfaction in fully online academic courses.
Abstract
The current study attempts to characterize the relationship between learners' personality and their satisfaction with a fully online academic course, based on previous evidence regarding the relationship between personality and self-regulated learning (SRL), and between SRL and satisfaction with online courses. Personality and satisfaction questionnaires were addressed to 72 students who were enrolled in an online academic course, in order to characterize the learners and to examine the correlation between learners' personality and their satisfaction with the fully online course. Moreover, the possibility to predict the level of the students' satisfaction according to their personality was examined as well. The findings show that openness to experience and conscientiousness significantly predicted students' satisfaction. It was found to be possible to characterize groups of online learners; and that students with similar personality traits will prefer a similar synchronous channel. A preliminary model was produced, aiming to improve learners' satisfaction from online courses. Some correlations were found between Big Five personality traits and satisfaction with the online course.Openness to experience and conscientiousness were found as predictors of students' satisfaction.A correlation between students' satisfaction and agreeableness was not found.Groups of students with similar levels of traits showed different satisfaction levels.Students with similar traits had a similar preference for synchronized learning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.chb.2017.02.030
Computers in Human Behavior
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fully online course,Big five model,Personality traits,Self-regulated learning,Satisfaction
Social psychology,Big Five personality traits,Self-regulated learning,Psychology,Openness to experience,Conscientiousness,Online course,Agreeableness,Hierarchical structure of the Big Five,Personality
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
72
C
0747-5632
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anat Cohen122.05
Orit Baruth220.36