From: Integrating students’ perspectives about online learning: a hierarchy of factors
Independent Variables | Critical Success Factors (from most to least important) | ||||||
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Basic online modality | Instruct-ional support | Teaching presence | Cognitive presence | Online Social Comfort | Online interactive modality | Social presence | |
Graduate vs. Undergraduate Graduates rate these factors higher than undergraduates | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.05 | |||
Age Elder students rate this factor higher | 0.03 | ||||||
Work Status Working students rate these factors higher | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.01 | |
Ethnicity Latino and White rate basic online modality and instructional support higher; API rate social presence higher | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.03 | ||||
Discipline No significant difference found across 5 disciplines | |||||||
Online Experience Students who have taken more online classes rate all these factors higher | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 |