E-Learning education: an exploratory study on high school students' attitudes and educational use of the Internet

النوع : Mémoire

The current study explored, within E-Learning education, the possible impact of Internet-based learning on high school students' attitudinal and E-educational use of the Internet. It investigated the context of E-Learning education in Lebanese educational institutions. It explored the practices of Lebanese postmodern generation in relation to the Internet and their tendency towards a New Value System. The study compared students' attitudes towards the use of the Internet with teachers' attitudes towards the Internet, as perceived by students. It also pointed at teachers' impact on students' integration of E-Learning in educational settings. The instrument used to collect the data was a 34-item questionnaire that was answered by 232 English high school students of eleventh grade. Results of frequency tests on Internet accessibility and connectivity is supported, so as the frequency tests of the Practices of the New Value System of postmodern generation. Although the correlation tests run for students' and teachers' attitudes showed no positive relation, it supported the current research considerably. A t-test is run to describe teachers' attitudes and their Internet-based integration. It also was found supported.