The relationship of e-Learner's self-regulatory efficacy and perception of e-Learning environmental quality

The increasing use of a internet improved internet technologies as well as web-based applications. Also, increasing effectiveness of the e-Learning has become one of the most practically and theoretically important issues in both educational engineering and information system fields. This study suggests a research model which is based on an e-Learning success model as well as the relationship of the e-Learner's self-regulatory efficacy, and the quality perception of the e-Learning environment. The presented research model focuses on the learning environment and on the learners' self-efficacy. The learning environment consists of learning management system (LMS), learning contents and interaction that are provided by e-Learning system. The learners' self-efficacy, however, refers to the learners' self-regulatory efficacy. Group research has been conducted to sensitively analyze the relationship between the quality factors and the satisfaction of the e-Learning environment. As a result, this paper shows the validity of the model empirically. As the results demonstrate, most of the hypotheses suggested in this model were proved to be accepted. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.