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How Do Students and Faculty of Higher Education Perceive E-learning In Korea?
This paper reports the results from a survey on the perception of e-learning at the higher level education. The resulting data consists of answers to the questionnaire by a total of 822 respondents including 609 students who were enrolled in either 2 year colleges, 4 year colleges, or graduate schools at the time when the survey was conducted, and 213 academic faculty and staff who hade-learning experience. Main findings are: first, the most preferred instructional material format for e-learning was web-based self-directed instruction (28.1%) by the faculty whereas students preferred discussion (24.6%) and Video on Demand (VOD) (24.1%) .. Secondly, students of e-learning classes studied more on average than the students of face-to-face classes and students with more e-learning experience had a tendency of studying more. Thirdly, students, academic faculty, and staff all reported heavier burdens with online classes than with offline classes, but the perception of increased burdens with online classes relative to offline classes was more widespread among faculty members (44. 7% at twice more burden) than among students (33.5% at twice more burden) .. Fourthly, overall students (56. 7%) are more satisfied with online classes than academic faculty and staff (43.4%). Fifthly, the willingness to participate in online classes by faculty (89. 7%) was higher than that of students (57.8%). Sixthly, as to the online tuition, students (50.3%) claim that less than 50% of the tuition of the offline education is optimal while academic faculty and staff (23.8%) reported 90%.
