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Communication on eLearning:
Exploring Gender Differences in Attitudes
Poonsri Vate-U-Lan, Ed.D. Panicos Masouras, Ph.D.
Lecturer in eLearning Methodology Assistant Professor
Assumption University of Thailand Cyprus University of Technology
International Conference on Data Science, E-learning and Information Systems 2018 (Data'18)
1-2 October, Ayre Gran Hotel Colón, Madrid, Spain
Agenda
The research on how to improve quality of eLearning especially the approach of a better eLearning design in
terms of effective communication in the era of social media is in great demand.
eLearning
Attitude Gender Experience
I. Demographic information
II. Social network behaviour, and
III. Attitude towards eLearning Questions on attitude
within social networking
platforms.
The reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha co-efficiency) of
these five questions were 0.898 which can be
interpreted as an excellent internal consistency.
List of demographic Per cent N
Findings: ELearning experience
70
60
64.1
61.8 59.8 Findings
50.4 49.6
50 29.5
29.7 29.4
40 24 24.5 31.6
30 25.7
14.2
20 12
34.6 32.1 30.4
26.4 25
10 17.4 13.7
0
Not only gender differences in attitudes, but also other variables such as ages or
other related psychology issues such as sheconomy and technology adaptation
model should be studied.
• The expectation to improve, revise and modify the traditional LMSs needs to be implemented
before being disrupted by social network leveraging external to education institutions.
Dr. Poonsri Vate-U-Lan
Vate-U-Lan, P., & Masouras, P. (2018). Thriving Social Network for Communication on eLearning: Exploring Gender
Differences in Attitudes. In International Conference on Data Science, E-learning and Information
Systems 2018 (Data’18). Ayre Gran Hotel Colón, Madrid, Spain: ACM Digital Library and UDIMA
Universidad a distancia de Madrid. https://doi.org/10.1145/3279996.3280010