Students’ Motives for Attending E-Learning Master’s Degree Courses

Zormanová, Lucie

Students’ Motives for Attending E-Learning Master’s Degree Courses

dc.contributor.author	Zormanová, Lucie
dc.contributor.organization	Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach	en
dc.date.accessioned	2021-04-12T12:32:43Z
dc.date.available	2021-04-12T12:32:43Z
dc.date.issued	2020-03-01
dc.description.abstract	This paper presents the results of a research study on the motives of students to study in the distance learning form at the University of Humanities and Economics in Lodz. The research was carried out using the method of semistructured interviews. The interviews were conducted among students of the first year of the follow-up Master’s degree in Pedagogy. The research was carried out in the years 2016–2019, in this period three stages of research were realised. The research group consisted of 20 students who had work and family responsibilities and were between 35 and 48 years old. In addition, respondents already had previous experience in combined and full-time studies. The interviews were recorded on a mobile phone and lasted about 40 minutes each. Data were analysed using open coding procedures. The goal of open coding was to thematically divide the analysed text. The analysed interviews were divided into units, which sometimes meant words, and sometimes sentences or paragraphs set according to their meaning, so the unit consisted of a semantic unit. A code has been assigned to each specified unit. Once the code list was created, we started to categorise data	en
dc.identifier.citation	Zormanová, L. (2020). Students’ Motives for Attending E-Learning Master’s Degree Courses. International Journal of Research in E-learning, 6(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.31261/IJREL.2020.6.1.04.	en
dc.identifier.issn	2543-6155
dc.identifier.uri	https://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/19836
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego	en
dc.rights	Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/	*
dc.subject	distance education	en
dc.subject	University of Humanities and Economics in Lodz	en
dc.subject	semi-structured interviews	en
dc.subject	motive	en
dc.title	Students’ Motives for Attending E-Learning Master’s Degree Courses	pl
dc.type	article	en