Exploring factors impacting students’ motivation to learn using face-to-face, online and hybrid learning
Quality Assurance in Education
ISSN: 0968-4883
Article publication date: 23 August 2022
Issue publication date: 10 January 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to explore and compare the approach and avoidance factors in motivating students to study using three different learning methods: face-to-face learning, online learning and hybrid learning.
Design/methodology/approach
This research uses in-depth online interviews to gain insights from students. Purposive sampling was applied to recruit 33 informants from two private universities in Indonesia. The verbatim data were analyzed using a thematic content analysis to identify motivational factors.
Findings
This study revealed four motivational factors regarding the approach to face-to-face learning/avoidance of online learning and five motivational factors regarding the approach to online learning/avoidance of face-to-face learning. Most of the motivational factors (i.e. learning effectiveness, social interaction, campus life experiences, physical wellness, flexibility and technological learning) are also found in the approach to hybrid learning.
Research limitations/implications
The existing qualitative research suffers from generalizability, as does this study. Future research can investigate other contexts or use quantitative research to validate the findings.
Practical implications
By identifying the approach and avoidance motivational factors, higher education institutions can enhance the approach (positive) factors and minimize or eliminate the avoidance (negative) factors that motivate their students to study using different learning methods.
Originality/value
This research complements the existing literature using new perspectives, namely, the approach and avoidance factors that motivate students to study through face-to-face learning, online learning and hybrid learning post-COVID-19.
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Acknowledgements
The author thanks the students for their participation in this study and Kantor Riset SBE Universitas Prasetiya Mulya for proofreading the final manuscript. Thanks also go to Steven Randy Istijanto for transcribing the verbatim data and the four anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions.
Citation
, I. (2023), "Exploring factors impacting students’ motivation to learn using face-to-face, online and hybrid learning", Quality Assurance in Education, Vol. 31 No. 1, pp. 121-136. https://doi.org/10.1108/QAE-02-2022-0051
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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