E-LEARNING MOTIVATION AMONG STUDENT-ATHLETES OF UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA (UiTM), MALAYSIA
Keywords:
E-Learning, motivation, student-athletes, educatorsAbstract
The greatest challenge for educators during the pandemic Covid 19 situation today is to
motivate their students to adopt e-learning. Therefore, it is important for lecturers in higher
institutions to understand how to motivate their learners in choosing the types of motivation.
Motivation refers to the concern with arousal, direction and persistence of behaviour
towards the achievement of a specific goal, which classified into intrinsic and extrinsic.
The objective of this study is to explore the types of motivation in adopting e-learning
among the student-athletes of Sport Science and Recreation Faculty at University
Technology MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. One hundred and twenty student t- athletes
participated in this study. They were categorized into four ranking known as national, state,
district and university based on their achievement in sports. The overall result showed that
the student-athletes have the highest level of motivation in External Regulation (mean=
27.51), followed by Introjected Regulation (mean= 25.74), Identified Regulation (mean=
22.32), Amotivation (mean= 20.34), Intrinsic Motivation to Experience (mean= 17.17),
Intrinsic Motivation to Know (mean= 15.31) and Intrinsic Motivation to Accomplish
(mean= 12.55). Furthermore, national level athletes scored higher mean in both types of
e-learning motivation except for Amotivation. In contrast, university ranking student
athletes scored the lowest on all the types of motivations for e-learning but highest in
Amotivation. The findings obtained in this study supported by Self-Determination theory
that e-learning involves the interaction of both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Therefore,
educators should use intrinsic and extrinsic types of motivation to enhance the e learning
habits among student-athletes to increase their performance in academic.
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