Students’ Acceptance and Motivation on Andragogical Approaches Towards their Academic Performance
Keywords:
Adult Learners, Andragogy, E-learning, Open Distance LearningAbstract
Online Distance Learning (ODL) has been practiced widely around the world. The educational delivery of
ODL provides learners vast opportunities to deal with the learning process, that includes time, place as
well as pace of learning. Assisted by technology, ODL has tremendously improved the educational system
in many ways. This erupts the possibility of implementing andragogical approach through ODL. Hence,
this study, which is guided by Knowles’s theory of andragogy, is qualitative research investigating the issue
of learning process via andragogical approaches of seven adult learners in UiTM Perlis, Malaysia. The
study also seeks whether students’ attitudes vary differently among themselves throughout ODL so that
their performance during class could be evaluated. The findings of the study support andragogical
approaches which they positively affect the students’ learning experiences.
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